The following are proceedings from a breakout group at the Community Created Humboldt event on January 23rd, 2010.
Food System Coordination/ Small Scale Agriculture/Food Security Proceedings[edit | edit source]
Convener: Ann Anderson, Steve Salzman, Merlin Nelsun, Chris Wisner
- Future of Food
- Education
- New jobs for all parties, fish, farm, ranch, food council, what are others doing?
- Quality food to people with economic issues
- Sustainable food security
- Self reliance
- Fish & Farms
- Policy & interagency communication
- Neighborhood disaster preparedness
- People grow their own food & coordinate with Food Bank
- Lawns to gardens
- Land usage (negatives)
- General plan to incentivize agriculture base and knowledge base
- Loss of fishing grounds
- Wave energy research presentation Feb 2nd at Wharfinger
- Want to hear from farmers
- School gardens issue is seasonality and link to curriculum to grow
- Charter groups are more open
- Public schools more administration/less open to change
- CSA community garden - work instead of paying
- Information about local, fresh, organic food is important
- Silos – how to bring together communications
- Education – how to cook – passion for eating well, nutrition & food education exists
- Food- community commodity function everyone a producer
- Model behavior – not just teach; spend time growing own food instead of making money
- Share land for labor to grow food
- Food as function of community
- Develop relationships between families – food as function; neighborhood level; shared gardens to grow, distribute, neighborhood up growth/ not policy downward
- Community Garden Collaborative Food production like Volunteer Fire Department
- Fund from Local fundraisers community responsible for funding
- Education - can produce own why local, fresh healthy food is important & better than McDonalds; encourage &ID community which is responsible
- Create: Volunteer Food Department
Next Steps[edit | edit source]
- set up a nonprofit speed-dating event
- convene OS event re abolishing corporate personhood
- start business center for marijuana growers
- CAFF end of Feb food security
- visioning group: whole bioregion, identify niches to fill
- Feb 1 HAF Humboldt Bay MWD rising water rates/rights
- CCH Facebook page, ning
- define viable OS model for future meetings
- consider topics; sequence every two weeks in OS format; pick a topic/focus now
- 4/2 OS food security local self-reliance
- recruit; bring others to future meetings; communicate outcomes (Facebook, etc.)
- invite members of breakout groups to provide key points
- identify a constant place and time for ongoing weekly conversations (Golden harvest, Old Town Coffee and Chocolates, Mosgos)
- more diversity and youth at OS
- 2/4 public input re D street center 6 pm
- Susan O Coggee break 8-9 Weds; Mark Lovelace
- focus $$ to local credit unions
- vision of solution in mind: joy of opportunity; keeping our intention in face of challenges
- Sunday Jan 31 Mateel Community Center
- 2/5 Bayside Grange Haiti benefit
- Arcata Community Garden (call Suz if interested)
