To have your name added, contact Amber Polk at amber_polk@ncsu.edu.
Notes from the SUMMIT breakout sessions can now be found on the WIT pages linked below.
- F2F Core Team
- Game Plan
- Advisory Committee
- NC Food NETwork: a North Carolina Food System directory
- SUMMIT
- Working Issues
- Communications
- Community Gardens
- Direct Marketing
- Farm to School
- Local Government & Land Use
- New and Transitioning Farmer Support
- Processing & Food Systems Infrastructure
- Public Health & Food Access Disparities
- Retail & Institutional Markets
- Youth and Social Networking
- Formalizing the Initiative: Foundations & Baselines
- Regional Meetings
- How are we defining LOCAL?
- Regional Meetings Overview & Summary
- Triangle Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Mountain Region SUMMIT breakout session
- NorthEast Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Southeastern Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Triad Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Raleigh meeting
- Burgaw meeting
- Asheville
- Charlotte/Concord
- Winston-Salem
- Greenville
Golden Leaf Foundation
Z. Smith Reynolds
Ag Advancement Consortium
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- CEFS
- Contact Information Form
- NC Choices
- NC Food Network
- Wayne Food Initiative
Regional Meetings Overview & Summary
Ideas from first three meetings: RALEIGH, BURGAW, & ASHEVILLE summary
(only repeated ideas listed here;
key: repeated,highest repetition)
EXPANDED MARKETS
selling
- food stamps at farmers’ markets (should be run by Department of Ag and implemented state-wide)
- CSAs with sliding scale and various payment schedules
- CSA deliver/pickup at workplaces
- mobile farmers’ markets at workplaces & corporate sponsored markets
growing
- community gardens (partner with Parks & Rec, Libraries, extension agents)
purchasing
- statewide purchasing of local food in schools with preference to underserved districts and counties
STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE
mechanics and facilities
- **local processing facilities & certified community kitchens
- farmer owned distribution companies
- small scale slaughter facilities
- area freezer and cooler space to facilitate local and regional distribution
collective action
- “Organic Valley Co-op” style model for local farms, not necessarily certified to allow for changeable practices but real sustainability
- farm-to-institution cooperatives
technology
- labeling of local and sustainable growing and processing practices, meaningful and visible
FARMS & FARMERS
education and training
- more extension agents trained & supportive of organics, market gardening, & community gardening
- free permaculture-type workshops for community and farmers (biointensive, low tech, low resource, etc)
- career training in high schools for farming
programs
- support programs for infrastructure start-up costs for new farmers
- subsidies and grants for apprentices and new farmers
- farmland preservation
STRONG & DIVERSE PARTNERSHIPS (most noted in other categories already)
programs
- engaging kids in food early on – get food system knowledge back into cultural literacy
- gardens in all schools
re-thinking
- diversity training to get at root of inequity: structural racism in land legalities, disenfranchisement
TACTICS & NEEDs FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN
- **define what is local
- massive public campaign about true cost of good food and opportunities to take action
- massive public campaign of farmers as heroes/rock stars
- collaborative action, network, coalition – making most of existing work with concrete structure of connection
- database, categorized, on web to identify food systems work
- intentional inclusion of diverse groups
- steering committees on target areas OR regional steering committees on overview
- transparency in all efforts
- wholistic thinking
- documentary with successful stories
- create new statewide food policy council
- clear goals, benchmarks toward goals