| Name | Institution | Email Address |
|---|---|---|
| Will Allen | Growing Power | aallen@growingpower.org |
| Brenda Stynes | University at Buffalo Regional Institute | bae3@buffalo.edu |
| Jill Clark | Ohio State University, John Glenn School of Public Affairs | clark.1099@osu.edu |
| Brian Estabrook | Ohio State University, John Glenn School of Public Affairs | estabrook.5@osu.edu |
| Julia Freedgood | American Farmland Trust | jfreedgood@farmland.org |
| Jessica Fydenkevez | American Farmland Trust | jfydenkevez@farmland.org |
| Tim Griffin | Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy | timothy.griffin@tufts.edu |
| Enjoli Hall | University at Buffalo, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab | enjoliha@buffalo.edu |
| Kimberley Hodgson | Cultivating Healthy Places | kim@chplaces.com |
| Mary Hendrickson | University of Missouri, Department of Rural Sociology | hendricksonm@missouri.edu |
| Young Kim | Fondy Food Center | young@fondymarket.org |
| Fred Kirschenmann | Iowa State University, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills | leopold1@iastate.edu |
| Doris Mittasch | American Farmland Trust | dmittasch@farmland.org |
| Kami Pothukuchi | Wayne State University, Department of Urban Studies and Planning | k.pothukuchi@wayne.edu |
| Subhashni Raj | University at Buffalo, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab | subhashn@buffalo.edu |
| Samina Raja | University at Buffalo, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab | sraja@buffalo.edu |
| Anna Ricklin | American Planning Association | aricklin@planning.org |
| Louie Rivers, Jr. | Kentucky State University, Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program | louie.rivers@kysu.edu |
| David Rouse | American Planning Association | drouse@planning.org |
| Anelkis Royce | American Farmland Trust | aroyce@farmland.org |
| Eduardo Sanchez | American Heart Association National Center | eduardo.sanchez@heart.org |
| Erin Sweeney | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York | esweeney@buffalo.edu |
| Jennifer Whittaker | University at Buffalo, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (former); University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) | whittakerj@email.chop.edu |
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Baltimore Food Waste and Recovery Strategy, Baltimore, Maryland
| Jurisdiction Name: | Baltimore |
| State/Province: | MD |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 611,648 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | Strategy |
| Year: | 2018 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections |
| Keywords: | city, city agency food standards, community, compost, composting, environment, environmental projects, food composting, food recovery, food waste, food waste reduction, recovery, school, sustainability, waste, youth |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Baltimore Sustainability Commission |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Baltimore Office of Sustainability |
| Support Entity(s): | Institute for Local Self-Reliance, community and grassroot organizations and various city agencies (i.e. public works, public health, business development and city school) |
| Funding Amount: | n/a |
| Funding Sources: | n/a |
| Policy Outcome(s): | This strategy was first conceptualized in the Baltimore City Planning’s Office of Sustainability (BOS) Waste To Wealth Iniative and subsequent Waste to Wealth Report (2014), which recommended creating a city-wide food waste management strategy. Following this recommendation, from 2016-2018 BOS partnered with the Institute of Local Self-Reliance and over 75 stakeholders (divided into four working groups: (1) Food Waste Reduction & Recovery; (2) Compositing at Home & In The Community; (3) Food Waste Management in K-12 Schools; and (4) Creating Scalable Composting Infrastructure) across a range of sectors to produce initial recommendations for a food waste strategy. The Baltimore Food Waste and Recovery Strategy contains rationale for food recovery, local case studies of academic institutions, community-based organizations, and farms participating in food waste reduction and recovery programs, defines potential solutions, and sets ten major goals. These goals are classified by the aforementioned working group categories, and include reducing/eliminating food waste in higher education institutions, government agencies, K-12 schools, and residences, and creating composting/and or anaerobic digestion facilities in the Baltimore Region capable of processing all of Baltimore City’s organic waste. Each goal contains short-term strategies (1-5 years), mid-term strategies (5-10 years), and long-term strategies (10-20 years). |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Homegrown Baltimore: Grow Local, Baltimore City
| Jurisdiction Name: | Baltimore City |
| State/Province: | MD |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 620,961 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2013 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production |
| Keywords: | affordability, agricultural practices, agriculture, animals, buy local, compost, distribution, farm, food distribution, food production, food waste, healthy, healthy food, land use, local, local food, production, urban, urban agriculture, waste, water, zoning |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Baltimore City Planning Commission |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Baltimore Department of Planning |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | |
| Funding Sources: | |
| Policy Outcome(s): | plan focuses on increasing local food production in Baltimore – one component of Homegrown Baltimore, an initiative of the City of Baltimore to increase the production, distribution, sales, and consumption of locally grown food within Baltimore |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Wyandotte County Land Bank: Section 12. Agreements for Temporary Land Use: Adopt-a-Lot Program
| Jurisdiction Name: | Wyandotte County |
| State/Province: | KS |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality/County |
| Population: | 161,777 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | program |
| Year: | Adopted 2015, Updated 2016 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production |
| Keywords: | community, community garden, land bank, land use, recreation, vacant land |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Wyandotte County Land Bank |
| Support Entity(s): | Land Bank Advisory Board |
| Funding Amount: | n/a |
| Funding Sources: | n/a |
| Policy Outcome(s): | This document provides policy and procedure guidelines regarding the Wyandotte County Land Bank. The land bank seeks to make productive use of vacant lands within the community and establishes an adopt-a-lot program to convert vacant land to green space and gardens. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Local Government Resolution of Support for Baltimore Food Enterprise Center
| Jurisdiction Name: | Baltimore |
| State/Province: | MD |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 620,961 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | resolution |
| Year: | 2014 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | agriculture, buy local, commercial kitchen, community, economic development, education, farm, farmer, food aggregation, food hub, local, local food economy, public private partnership, urban, urban agriculture, urban farming |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Baltimore City Council, Baltimore Board of Estimates |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | American Communities Trust, Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, East Baltimore Development Inc, TRF Development Partners, and Cross Street Partners |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | $500,000 |
| Funding Sources: | State of Maryland's Department of Housing and Community Development's Neighborhood BusinessWorks Program |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Approved and authorized execution of a Local Government Resolution in support of the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition (HEBCAC), Inc.’s application to the State of Maryland’s Department of Housing and Community Development’s Neighborhood BusinessWorks Program. The Baltimore Food Enterprise Center (office and training space for food entrepreneurs and start-up businesses, in addition to a commercial kitchen incubator for entrepreneurs in the culinary and hospitality industries), a component of the Baltimore Food Hub, a planned campus of facilities, services, and programs focused on enhancing Baltimore’s local food economy will be supported. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 – Link 2 |
Cook County Land Bank Authority, Sec. 103
| Jurisdiction Name: | Cook County |
| State/Province: | IL |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality/County |
| Population: | 5,194,675 |
| Population Range: | 1 million or more |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | ordinance |
| Year: | 2013 |
| GFC Topic: | community food security |
| Keywords: | agriculture, community garden, development, economic development, economic vitality, farmland preservation, food access, food distribution, food infrastructure, food processing, food production, food security, food system, land, land development, land use, local food, low-income, public funds, tax, underserved, urban agriculture, vacant property |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Cook County Board of Commissioners, South Suburban Mayors & Managers Assn. |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Cook County Land Bank Authority, South Suburban Land Bank Development Authority |
| Support Entity(s): | State of Illinois, Cook County |
| Funding Amount: | $20,000,000+ |
| Funding Sources: | State of Illinois, Cook County, Private Bank, many other sources |
| Policy Outcome(s): | In Cook County, there are 214,000 housing units vacant. The new land bank will work to acquire properties, manage them, and return them to productive use. Land banking is a flexible tool that can be shaped to meet the needs of each participating community. In stronger market areas, land banks can facilitate immediate housing development or redevelopment, or commercial or industrial growth by speeding the transfer of vacant property to new owners, collaborating with individuals and organizations to renovate viable properties and assembling larger sites for private redevelopment. In harder hit communities, land banks provide a degree of stability that plants the seeds for economic revitalization in the near- or mid-term. In the hardest hit communities, land banks implement strategies that stop the downward spiral that, if left unchecked, would leave them decimated for generations. In such communities, demolition of nuisance properties may be the best short-term strategy, eliminating properties that drag down property values and promote blight. When the most troubled buildings have been cleared, the land can be used for new safe play areas or expanded side- or backyards. Cleared land also provides opportunities for urban agriculture and community-based food system practitioners to secure the access to land that is so essential to nurturing local food systems. Targeted demolition has proven to be an essential part of neighborhood stabilization efforts and lays the foundation for revitalization. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy, Thunder Bay Metropolitan Area, Ontario
| Jurisdiction Name: | City of Thunder Bay; Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge; O'Conner Township; Township of Gillies; Municipality of Shuniah; Municipality of Neebing |
| State/Province: | ON |
| Country: | Canada |
| Type of Government: | Regional Agency |
| Population: | 121,621 |
| Population Range: | 50,000 to 249,999 |
| Policy Links: | Web – PDF |
| Policy type: | plan |
| Year: | 2014 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | agricultural economy, education, food access, food infrastructure, food procurement, food production, food security, food system, forest, freshwater foods, healthy food, local food, nutrition education, plan, regional, regional plan, school, school meal, urban agriculture |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Councils of City of Thunder Bay, Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, O’Connor Township, Township of Gillies, Municipality of Shuniah, Conmee Township and the Municipality of Neebing |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Thunder Bay Food Coordinator, Steering Committee, and Administrative Committee |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | n/a |
| Funding Sources: | Ontario Trillium Foundation grant |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Developed by various municipalities in the Thunder Bay Area, the strategy is a regionally-coordinated approach to identify areas of opportunity within the collective food system. Included are strategic points of focus that will contribute to the cultural, ecological, economic, and social health of the region, as well as to a more healthy and sustainable food system. Thus far, the strategy has been successful in increasing local food consumption and continuing the development of the food system through ongoing workshops, conferences, and publications. Pilot studies on increased local food access in institutions (schools, hospitals, etc.) and in community stadiums/arenas have also been completed. |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Agricultural Advisory Committee, Local Law No. 1-1994
| Jurisdiction Name: | Town of Eden |
| State/Province: | NY |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 7,688 |
| Population Range: | 2,500 to 19,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | law |
| Year: | 1994 |
| GFC Topic: | community food production |
| Keywords: | advisory board, advisory committee, advisory group, agricultural advisory committee, agricultural practices, agriculture, farming, farming viability, farmland, farmland preservation, food production, law, preservation, production, rural, rural agriculture, town code |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Town Board of the Town of Eden |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Town Board, Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, Planning Board |
| Support Entity(s): | n/a |
| Funding Amount: | not applicable |
| Funding Sources: | not applicable |
| Policy Outcome(s): | Created the Agricultural Advisory Committee for the Town and describes its powers and duties |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |
Community of Opportunity Application Form
Is your community interested in strengthening its food system through planning and policy? 
Growing Food Connections is in the process of selecting up to 8 local governments in urban and rural communities across the U.S. to receive free technical assistance and guidance on how to develop tools and policies that support local farms and improve food security.
If your local government is interested in strengthening its food systems, consider nominating your community to be a Growing Food Connections (GFC) Community of Opportunity by submitting an application form. GFC is a five-year initiative to build the capacity of local governments to use policy and planning tools to strengthen community food systems. Selected GFC Communities of Opportunity will receive free technical assistance to develop and deploy policy tools to strengthen food systems. This will include training workshops, webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring among community partners, and consultation on developing policies, partnerships, and public investments that will lay the foundation for stronger food systems.
Local governments, community organizations, or interested food systems stakeholders from any region of the United States are welcome to submit an application for a United States municipality/county* to be considered as a GFC Community of Opportunity, however only communities with local government involvement will be selected.
* Growing Food Connections is a USDA-supported grant which is focused on United States municipalities. Canadian and Mexican municipalities are not eligible.
Submit an application today.
Complete applications are due Friday, September 5, 2014.
To be considered as a Community of Opportunity please fill out the application form below. Communities are required to have a local government representative as part of their team. The Application Form must be filled out by a local government representative.
Although we will select only a limited number of communities, the Growing Food Connections website will have free resources that are available to all communities.
If you have questions about the application, please contact growingfoodconnections@ap.buffalo.edu.
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Baltimore Sustainability Plan, Ordinance No. 09-141
| Jurisdiction Name: | Baltimore City |
| State/Province: | MD |
| Country: | United States |
| Type of Government: | Municipality |
| Population: | 620,961 |
| Population Range: | 250,000 to 999,999 |
| Policy Links: | |
| Policy type: | ordinance |
| Year: | 2009 |
| GFC Topic: | community food connections, community food production, community food security |
| Keywords: | access, affordability, agriculture, buy local, consumption, food access, food consumption, food marketing, food production, food system, healthy, healthy eating, healthy food, institution, land use, local, local food, marketing, production, school, urban, urban agriculture, water |
| Adopting Government Department(s): | Baltimore City Council |
| Lead Implementing Entity(s): | Baltimore Office of Sustainability |
| Support Entity(s): | |
| Funding Amount: | |
| Funding Sources: | |
| Policy Outcome(s): | plan incorporated food system goals and recommendations related to urban agriculture, food availability, food access, local food procurement, and local/regional food data; helped lead to a number of programs and initiatives such as the Land Leasing Initiative, Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, Power in Dirt Initiative, Future Harvest-CASA Beginner Farmer Training Program, Baltimarket, and Baltimore Climate Action Plan |
| Additional Resources and Information: | Link 1 |