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How Many People Does the Olean Food Pantry Serve? That's a valid question, and you'd be SURPRISED to see the answer. Read our blog here to find out. https://lnkd.in/e6qGNWMe #OleanFoodPantry #ServeWithPurpose #HungerStats #LocalHungerStatistics #CommunitySupport #EndFoodInsecurity #LocalImpact #CommunityUnity #GrowingNeed #FightHungerTogether #CommunityAlly #ServeWithCompassion

🥕📚 Partnership Spotlight: Weld RE-4 School District 📚🥕 "East Denver Food Hub makes it possible for us to procure all types of produce from different local farmers and get us the numbers we need. We serve about 8,500 students every single day, and that's a large volume. It's a big administrative lift for us to source from all these local farms, but with East Denver Food Hub, we have a one-stop shop. I can get local apples, corn, butternut squash—all types of things—just by contacting East Denver Food Hub. They help us actually get this food on the kids' trays, which wouldn't be possible without this partnership." - Maura Benton We're excited to partner with Weld RE-4 School District to bring the best local veggies to students' plates, transforming school food one meal at a time! Our commitment goes beyond supplying fresh produce—we're here to support the nutrition directors and school food authorities who work tirelessly to provide healthy meals within tight budgets, strict guidelines, and complex USDA regulations. 💪🏽🍎 Our experienced food advisors understand the challenges you face and the dedication it takes to nourish students each day. We're versed in school lunch programs, USDA grants, and local food sourcing, ready to guide and support every step of the way. We recognize the hard and vital work that goes into making every meal count, and we're here to help make the process easier—whether it's navigating compliance or maximizing funding to increase fresh, local options. Together with Weld RE-4, we're bringing nutritious choices directly to the cafeteria, empowering students with real food from our local farms. We've got your back! 💚🌽 #SchoolFoodRevolution #WeldRE4 #LocalVeggies #CommunityPartners #NutritionForAll #FarmToSchool #SupportingSchools

How Many People Does the Olean Food Pantry Serve? That's a valid question, and you'd be SURPRISED to see the answer. Read our blog here to find out. https://lnkd.in/e6qGNWMe #OleanFoodPantry #ServeWithPurpose #HungerStats #LocalHungerStatistics #CommunitySupport #EndFoodInsecurity #LocalImpact #CommunityUnity #GrowingNeed #FightHungerTogether #CommunityAlly #ServeWithCompassion

We need more of this! The devil is always in the details but still a good start. The first state-wide legislation of its kind, the Good Food New York bill (S.6955A /A.7264) allows municipalities to prioritize healthy food from vendors who promote community health, worker well-being, local economies, racial equity, animal welfare, sustainability, and transparency, rather than prioritizing the lowest cost.

Cannot stop thinking about the Detroit People's Food Co-op since I first learned about it. An except from the Facebook post that enlightened me: "What is a food coop? A food co-op is a grocery store that’s owned by its member/owners as opposed to a grocery store such as Kroger or Meijer which has corporate ownership or an independent grocery store owned by a family or individual. In a food co-op members have a role in shaping the store culture, operations, and product standards. Detroit People’s Food Co-op is democratically controlled by its member/owners. Each member/owner can only purchase one ownership share and has one vote. Although food co-ops, like all businesses, must have revenues that exceed operating costs if they are to be sustainable, food co-ops prioritize community well-being over making profits for member/owners." https://lnkd.in/e3epEDRi

If you live in the Johnson County area, we would love for you to attend tonight's Indiana Food Vision- Johnson County Listening Session at 5:30 held at Purdue Extension Johnson County. I have had a lot of questions about the Indiana Food Vision the last few months and hope you have directed your questions and thoughts to the website and to the contact email. The website it fairly informative but please reach out if you need further context or would like to be involved. At tonight's event our discussion will center around these questions: *What is a food system and what is our role in it? *What is working/not working in our food system? *What assets do we have currently and can build on? *What would a perfect food system look like? Details of note: -We all eat- so we all have a place in this conversation. Even those who grow our food. -I think we can all agree that we want to see more 'Indiana Food' on 'Indiana Plates' and there are many ways and many paths to get to that goal. -A food system includes growing food, transporting food, processing food, packaging food, buying food, cooking/eating food, disposing of food, reusing of food, and so on. That is a big space, and it takes a lot of ideas and a lot of pathways to feed our communities. -Lastly, when creating a food system that is organized for a community and region- you need input from people who work in these areas to really move the needle: zoning, policy, public spaces, small business development, marketing, public education, planning, economic development, healthcare, emergency food assistance, healthy food education, food councils, community foundations, community governments, and so on. So, it is vital to have a cohesive discussion on topics that are actually relevant to us all- and how we eat, where we buy our food, and eating in general- that is a relative topic amongst us all. Happy to discuss offline, please reach out. I am only one of many volunteers. IndianaFoodVision.org to learn more and to take the completely anonymous household survey which is just in place to gather data statewide.

Learn how Foodlink simplified its distribution process, sending 25 million pounds of food to 400 community partners across 10 counties in upstate New York. Read the case study👇 https://ow.ly/1rRK50TM3F9

Help Us Build a Thriving City: Share Your Input on Community Food Access!Dear Community Members,I believe that understanding and improving access to food is crucial to making our city a vibrant and thriving place for everyone. To achieve this, we need your help!The City of Rochester is conducting a survey as part of “The Rochester Community Food System Plan” to better understand the food needs and challenges faced by our community. Your insights are invaluable in helping us identify areas where we can make a real difference.How You Can Help?1.Take the Survey: Share your experiences and opinions by completing the survey.2.Spread the Word:Share the survey link with friends, family, and neighbors to ensure we hear from as many voices as possible.Why It Matters? As a proud council member of The Rochester Food Policy Council, I believe that elevating the voices  from our community is key to address the many challenges and barriers our community faces related to our food system. This information can help with:Better Services: Your feedback will guide us in improving local food services and resources.Informed Decisions: Help our City, our city planners and community organizations make informed decisions that support food security.Community Strength: A thriving community starts with access to essential needs, and community input is a key part of this process.Together, we can create a community where everyone has access to healthy, nutritious food. Thank you for your participation and support!The survey is available online, and paper copies of the survey can also be made available (in English and Spanish). The survey will be open through July 15, 2024.To access the survey online, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gwYeE_S6 you would like to distribute and collect paper versions of the survey, please contact Liz Podowski King at liz@highland-planning.comTo learn more about the project, please visit: https://lnkd.in/g-9wh4RP #FoodAccess #ThrivingCity #CommunitySupport #BetterTogether #CityofRochester #Foodsystems #Rochester

It was an honor to be invited with fellow WNYers concerned about our food system and to learn about food co-ops potential for building food sovereignty in the region. Thank you to the Buffalo Bills Foundation, specifically Michelle Roberts and Morgan Foss, and Beth Gosch of The WNY Foundation for organizing! School food systems can and should be central to food sovereignty movements and should include co-ops. There are incredible models that teach us how we can better care for students, food workers, and the environment (see Brazil, in particular) that I learned about as I studied global school food systems and prepared with Jennifer Gaddis, Transforming School Food Politics Around the World (The MIT Press, 2024). We translated what we learned beyond US borders into four "school food fights" for The Guardian's School Food Fights series with high hopes of bringing knowledge of how school food IS changing globally and what could be adapted to the US. Thanks, Faye Mack now at the Food Co-op Initiative, for contributing a chapter with M. Anore Horton, Betsy Rosenbluth, Amy Shollenberger that so generously shares with readers how the Vermont solidarity network developed and brought to fruition a happy ending for the state's public school students, farmers, and school food workers! I think about VT's action circles' approach for potentially changing Buffalo's school food system. (There are already so...many important policy and financial pieces in place...) It starts with a shared happy ending, right? What might that be and how can co-ops contribute to that happy-ending change Buffalo deserves? Big questions that I am thinking about and eager to learn about with local stakeholders!

Check out the interesting way that the value of Food Co-ops in communities is used as a way to address food insecurity and access to healthy food! https://lnkd.in/enTAs9v3