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Introduction

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

• 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

• 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)