Local Foods
Next Meeting:
The next meeting has not been determined. This group also meets online. To join the discussion, please visit the Google Local Foods Group page.
Topic:
Discovering opportunities to increase the availability and consumption of locally-grown food.
- Local opportunities and challenges
- Local food as an economic driver
- Policy and regulation
- Business models (ie – producers, institutional consumers, distributors)
- Innovations in food production, processing and storage
- Local networks
- Regional food production
- Crop diversity
- Individual and institutional demand
- Community health
- Healthy habits and nutrition
Notes from previous meetings: (Downloads as PDF)
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