Growing Food Connections shares a variety of tools and resources to help facilitate equitable, healthy, and sustainable food systems through local government planning and policy.
Growing Food Connections provides a free online Essential Food Systems Reader that comprises the key policy briefs, articles, and reports for someone who is beginning to learn about food systems planning.
GROWING LOCAL: A Community Guide to Planning for Agriculture and Community Food Systems (Released 2017)
This guide is based on the findings from the Research component of GFC and intended for various audiences, including farmers, municipal and county officials, agricultural organizations, local food policy councils, county health agencies, planning commissions, and citizens’ groups concerned about sustaining healthy farms and assuring universal access to healthy food. View the guide here.