Get involved: Building a local food economy
Triad residents have a chance to provide input for a statewide initiative to build local food economies. A meeting will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Dec. 10 at SciWorks, 400 W. Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem.
RSVP for the meeting by e-mailing amber_polk@ncsu.edu.
The event is one of several being held throughout the state this year by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a partnership between two universities that seeks to develop and promote food and farming systems that protect the environment, strengthen local communities, and provide economic opportunities.
The center will incorporate participant feedback into a statewide action plan that it will complete next year. The center also received a $3.15 million endowment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help with this effort.
The center intends for the state plan to:
1. describe key elements of our current food system and define key terms;
2. identify the diversity of people, businesses, and organizations involved in and impacted by North Carolina’s food system;
3. highlight specific efforts and partnerships underway across our state and within different sectors of the food system to achieve greater “localness” in our food system; and
4. identify opportunities for action, and propose priorities, both in the short and long term, that will enable us to make progress toward shared goals.
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