Improving Local Food Access to Moderate and Lower Income Communities

"At our Spring Forum, we will deepen the dialogue and working relationships between the social services sector and the local food movement, identify barriers to purchasing healthy local food, and highlight work that is already increasing the availability of locally grown food for individuals and institutions. 
We will begin our conversation with what we know: health and local food are connected; access, affordability and equity in our local food system impact health outcomes for all of us, especially our lower income communities. 
SCHEDULE:
9:30am - 9:40am  "Food Justice: A Bigger Picture of Community and Local Food", Antioch Univ. New England PhD Fellow, Jess Gerrior
9:40am - 11:20am  3 - 30 minute Breakout Sessions, 10 minute reporting
11:30am LUNCH SERVED
BREAKOUT GROUPS:
I. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Food Share For All Partners: Seeds of Community Farm, Tracies Community Farm, New Dawn Farm, Picadilly Farm
II. Good Food For All Who Need It: Charitable Food Partners: Gleaning programs, The Community Kitchen, Community Garden Connections, Cornucopia Project III. What To Do With What I Have: Nutrition Education & Cooking Partners: Nutrition Connections, The Community Kitchen, The River Center, KSC Dietetic Internship, Healthy Monadnock IV. Boost Your Buying Power Partners: Monadnock Food Coop, Granite State Market Match, NH WIC, Keene Farmers Market
V. Farm to School, To Office, To You Partners: Monadnock Menus, Keene Housing Buying Club, Cornucopia Project, Food Connects
Organized by the MFCC Education Working Group (EWG). EWG member organizations: The Community Kitchen, Keene Housing, KSC Dietetic Internship, Community Garden Connection/Antioch Univ. New England, Cheshire HEAL, Monadnock Menus, and Healthy Monadnock.
Sponsored by Monadnock Food Coop, C & S Wholesale Grocers
MFCC is a proud Healthy Monadnock Champion."