Meeting Notes and Draft Goals of Food Security Group - Transition Whatcom2024-03-29T09:20:53Zhttp://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&feed=yes&xn_auth=nothanks. we can put the locati…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-02-02:2723460:Comment:422462011-02-02T04:57:53.007ZLaura R.http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraRidenour812
thanks. we can put the location and the contact info. <br></br>
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<cite>Walter Haugen said:</cite><br />
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A42473&xg_source=msg_com_gr_forum#2723460Comment42473"><div>Lynden Farmers Market 2011 - Starts June 4th and runs through October 15th. Hours will be 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Local vendors only - this means Whatcom County for this market.…</div>
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thanks. we can put the location and the contact info. <br/>
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<cite>Walter Haugen said:</cite><br />
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A42473&xg_source=msg_com_gr_forum#2723460Comment42473"><div>Lynden Farmers Market 2011 - Starts June 4th and runs through October 15th. Hours will be 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Local vendors only - this means Whatcom County for this market. Market will be on the grounds of the 3rd Christian Reformed Church in downtown Lynden - 6th and Edson. This will be a tailgate market and popups are not necessary. If you have a popup it can be any color. No stall fees. Resellers okay if you have a link to the farm. Vendors required to pick up after themselves AND the general public at the end of the day. Decisions on craft vendors, food vendors, and any licenses required by the city are still in flux. Additional info from Dave Timmer 961-4061or Walter Haugen 312-0335. <br/> <br/>
<cite>Laura R. said:</cite><br/>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&commentId=2723460%3AComment%3A42471&xg_source=activity&groupId=2723460%3AGroup%3A23339#2723460Comment42471"><div><p>Walter,</p>
<p>Please let us at SC Food & Farming know of your farmers market plans (location, times) so we can make sure it gets listed in the annual printing of the Food & Farm Finder and map!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Laura</p>
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<p><cite>Walter Haugen said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&#2723460Comment42383"><div>The Food Calculator is a great idea - IF it gets people to dig into their wallets and actually buy food directly from local farmers. Until that time, it will simply be an interesting artifact.<br/> <br/> For those of you reluctant to deal directly with a farmer by driving out to the farm, there are several alternatives.<br/> 1) Farmers Markets - Bellingham, Fairhaven, North Bellingham (started last year and tentative for this year), Ferndale, Lynden (new market starting in June).<br/>
2) Food buying clubs - easy to start, easy to run as long as you have 1 committed person and 2-3 others willing to pitch in on a weekly basis.<br/>
3) Grow more food yourselves for your own family.</div>
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</blockquote> Hi Folks,
We've already done…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-02-01:2723460:Comment:422322011-02-01T20:22:15.976ZLaura R.http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraRidenour812
<p>Hi Folks,</p>
<p><br></br>We've already done some of these assessments, and work with others who also are tracking similar things for the local food system. Good news - you don't have to do all this research from scratch!</p>
<p>Laura</p>
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<p><cite>Laura J Sellens said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&#2723460Comment41027"><div><p>Hi All, Here's what I found out about the BALLE…</p>
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<p>Hi Folks,</p>
<p><br/>We've already done some of these assessments, and work with others who also are tracking similar things for the local food system. Good news - you don't have to do all this research from scratch!</p>
<p>Laura</p>
<p> </p>
<p><cite>Laura J Sellens said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&#2723460Comment41027"><div><p>Hi All, Here's what I found out about the BALLE food leakage calculator. I think it sounds useful.</p>
<p>The Food Leakage Calculator presents key data about farms and agricultural production for a<br/>given community. These data can be found in the USDA’s Ag Census,3 but the calculator makes<br/>it very easy for users to find key data. It also compares production data with consumption data<br/>from the Consumer Expenditure Survey4 to provide a community with a very concrete sense of<br/>the extent to which it is not food self‐reliant or food secure. Nearly every community in the<br/>United States imports nearly all its fresh food, and the Food Calculator suggests how many<br/>pounds of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and how many chickens, cows, and pigs would be<br/>needed for the community to feed itself.<br/>For example, El Paso County, Colorado, has a big, $150 million per year beef industry. And yet<br/>the county is still only 28% self‐reliant on the steers it grows. There is the potential to create in<br/>this county a dairy industry with 26,000 milk cows, a pork industry with 279,000 pigs, and a<br/>poultry industry with 17 million chickens grown per year. There is also the potential to grow<br/>nearly all the fruits and vegetables consumed locally. Thus, a county that perceives itself as<br/>strong in agriculture actually turns out to have huge opportunities for economic growth<br/>through food self‐reliance.<br/>These data provide an important supplement to the Overview Calculator, because NAICS data<br/>do not include farming. Alongside information about sector‐specific leakages in agricultural<br/>support, food manufacturing, food retailing, restaurants, and food service, food leakages let<br/>the public know about specific weaknesses in the community’s existing food system—and<br/>specific opportunities for remedying those weaknesses.<br/>We are planning to expand the Food Calculator to analyze business, institutional, and<br/>government purchases of all kinds of food products and services. Additionally, we plan to add<br/>measures of other key indicators of the health of a community food system, including numbers<br/>of CSAs, farmers markets, and food deserts.</p>
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</blockquote> Walter,
Please let us at SC F…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-02-01:2723460:Comment:424712011-02-01T20:20:16.259ZLaura R.http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraRidenour812
<p>Walter,</p>
<p>Please let us at SC Food & Farming know of your farmers market plans (location, times) so we can make sure it gets listed in the annual printing of the Food & Farm Finder and map!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Laura</p>
<p> </p>
<p><cite>Walter Haugen said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&#2723460Comment42383"><div>The Food Calculator is a great idea - IF it gets people…</div>
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<p>Walter,</p>
<p>Please let us at SC Food & Farming know of your farmers market plans (location, times) so we can make sure it gets listed in the annual printing of the Food & Farm Finder and map!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Laura</p>
<p> </p>
<p><cite>Walter Haugen said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/forum/topics/meeting-notes-and-draft-goals?groupUrl=foodsecurityworkgroup&#2723460Comment42383"><div>The Food Calculator is a great idea - IF it gets people to dig into their wallets and actually buy food directly from local farmers. Until that time, it will simply be an interesting artifact.<br/> <br/>
For those of you reluctant to deal directly with a farmer by driving out to the farm, there are several alternatives.<br/>
1) Farmers Markets - Bellingham, Fairhaven, North Bellingham (started last year and tentative for this year), Ferndale, Lynden (new market starting in June).<br/>
2) Food buying clubs - easy to start, easy to run as long as you have 1 committed person and 2-3 others willing to pitch in on a weekly basis.<br/>
3) Grow more food yourselves for your own family.</div>
</blockquote> Hi all,
I am hoping we can be…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-02-01:2723460:Comment:424692011-02-01T20:19:04.511ZLaura R.http://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraRidenour812
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am hoping we can begin to work together on the food summit idea. Please see my recent discussion post, and feel free to contact me if you want to join our planning group.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Laura</p>
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am hoping we can begin to work together on the food summit idea. Please see my recent discussion post, and feel free to contact me if you want to join our planning group.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Laura</p> Hi Linda, Travis is the TWOG…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-01-30:2723460:Comment:421002011-01-30T16:18:16.772ZLaura J Sellenshttp://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraJSellens
Hi Linda, Travis is the TWOG who's going to be coordinating the EDAP, and he's also the guy who can tell you about google docs. Thanks for starting the research! The Totnes EDAP has a really detailed food chapter, with great maps of their food system and land use/quality. I could see TW working with WWU students on something like that. <a href="http://totnesedap.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://totnesedap.org.uk/</a> Cheers--
Hi Linda, Travis is the TWOG who's going to be coordinating the EDAP, and he's also the guy who can tell you about google docs. Thanks for starting the research! The Totnes EDAP has a really detailed food chapter, with great maps of their food system and land use/quality. I could see TW working with WWU students on something like that. <a href="http://totnesedap.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://totnesedap.org.uk/</a> Cheers-- Sorry I've been silent since…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-01-29:2723460:Comment:423802011-01-29T18:12:41.953ZLinda J Felshttp://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LindaJFels
<p>Sorry I've been silent since the meeting - been dealing with bad eyestrain so had to curtail computer work.</p>
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<p>Laura, at the meeting you mentioned the TWOG putting together a Google Docs location. Has that been done and can we have a subdirectory for the Food EDAP chapter? And who on the TWOG is coordinating the EDAP?</p>
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<p>As for the Food EDAP piece, I'm reading through the ERS/PO Task Force report and Kinsale EDAP. These look like a good starting document and good…</p>
<p>Sorry I've been silent since the meeting - been dealing with bad eyestrain so had to curtail computer work.</p>
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<p>Laura, at the meeting you mentioned the TWOG putting together a Google Docs location. Has that been done and can we have a subdirectory for the Food EDAP chapter? And who on the TWOG is coordinating the EDAP?</p>
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<p>As for the Food EDAP piece, I'm reading through the ERS/PO Task Force report and Kinsale EDAP. These look like a good starting document and good example of our goal document, respectively. Contacted Gigi about other resources. Soon I'll start a separate discussion to recruit members for a team to work on the EDAP Food chapter.</p> Hi All, Here's what I found o…tag:transitionwhatcom.ning.com,2011-01-19:2723460:Comment:410272011-01-19T03:31:40.669ZLaura J Sellenshttp://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LauraJSellens
<p>Hi All, Here's what I found out about the BALLE food leakage calculator. I think it sounds useful.</p>
<p>The Food Leakage Calculator presents key data about farms and agricultural production for a<br></br>given community. These data can be found in the USDA’s Ag Census,3 but the calculator makes<br></br>it very easy for users to find key data. It also compares production data with consumption data<br></br>from the Consumer Expenditure Survey4 to provide a community with a very concrete sense…</p>
<p>Hi All, Here's what I found out about the BALLE food leakage calculator. I think it sounds useful.</p>
<p>The Food Leakage Calculator presents key data about farms and agricultural production for a<br/>given community. These data can be found in the USDA’s Ag Census,3 but the calculator makes<br/>it very easy for users to find key data. It also compares production data with consumption data<br/>from the Consumer Expenditure Survey4 to provide a community with a very concrete sense of<br/>the extent to which it is not food self‐reliant or food secure. Nearly every community in the<br/>United States imports nearly all its fresh food, and the Food Calculator suggests how many<br/>pounds of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and how many chickens, cows, and pigs would be<br/>needed for the community to feed itself.<br/>For example, El Paso County, Colorado, has a big, $150 million per year beef industry. And yet<br/>the county is still only 28% self‐reliant on the steers it grows. There is the potential to create in<br/>this county a dairy industry with 26,000 milk cows, a pork industry with 279,000 pigs, and a<br/>poultry industry with 17 million chickens grown per year. There is also the potential to grow<br/>nearly all the fruits and vegetables consumed locally. Thus, a county that perceives itself as<br/>strong in agriculture actually turns out to have huge opportunities for economic growth<br/>through food self‐reliance.<br/>These data provide an important supplement to the Overview Calculator, because NAICS data<br/>do not include farming. Alongside information about sector‐specific leakages in agricultural<br/>support, food manufacturing, food retailing, restaurants, and food service, food leakages let<br/>the public know about specific weaknesses in the community’s existing food system—and<br/>specific opportunities for remedying those weaknesses.<br/>We are planning to expand the Food Calculator to analyze business, institutional, and<br/>government purchases of all kinds of food products and services. Additionally, we plan to add<br/>measures of other key indicators of the health of a community food system, including numbers<br/>of CSAs, farmers markets, and food deserts.</p>