The Cedar Valley Regional Food and Farm Network met on October 23rd at Northeast Iowa Food Bank from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
Agenda
1. Call to Order and Welcome
2. Introduction of Attendees (20 minutes)
-21 people attended
3. Community Partners (20 minutes)
-Adriane Carlson, Region 9 Iowa State University Education and Outreach Director
-County Staff
-Holly with Bulter County
-Roxanne and Sarah with Buchanan County
-Steven, Paula, Clarissa, Grace with Black Hawk County
-Julie Grunklee–Grundy County ISUEO Council member
-Jordan Hansen–Black Hawk County ISUEO Council member
-Over 8,000 pounds donated by the Waverly Community Garden. Ron interviewed by KWWL.
-Several programs related to Ag & Natural Resources, Human Sciences, and Economic Development
-Each county separate and sometimes they work together on projects
-They provide programming on several certifications.
-They decide the priority for their county and put together programs.
-Black Hawk County focused on Education (free gardening classes, FoodCorps)
-Paula with Black Hawk County provides Nutrition Education to families in need
-How can CVRFFN help ISUEO in the counties surrounding Black Hawk?
-Roxanne–measure economic development
-Julie–support vendors and smaller farmers markets
-maybe host workshops
-Holly–food pantry in Butler could use help with donations
4. Hunger Summit September 2019 (20 minutes)
-Kamyar Enshayan
-Emily Dvorak
-See attached sheet with summary from the conference
5. Black Hawk County Community Food Assessment 2020 (Jodie–20 minutes)
-The Black Hawk County Public Health Department in partnership with the UNI Local Program and the Northeast Iowa Food Bank are working on the 2020 Community Food Assessment for Black Hawk County. How can CVRFFN can get involved?
Core Assessment Team: Northeast Iowa Food Bank staff (Alisha, Susan, Barb), UNI Local Food Program (Jodie, Emily, Teresa), Black Hawk County Public Health
Assessment Committee Team to help with the work: Green Iowa AmeriCorp Members & Staff (Lauren Johnson, Paige, Jeremy), Sierra Doehr (Farmers Market vendor and works with Girl Scouts), FoodCorps Members (Grace, Clarissa)
Let Jodie know at jodie.huegerich@uni.edu if you want to be involved.
We will be reaching out to several of you to answer food system questions as we do research and collect data.
At the January meeting we will recap our findings and vote on priority projects for the Black Hawk County Community Food Assessment.
6. Call To Action (30 minutes–Committee Chairs)
-CVRFFN is a multi-county coalition working through committees: Food Access, Awareness, Education, and Economic Development.
-Are you on a committee? More Information about the committees will be available at the meeting. Please consider joining.
-Click on this link for updated committees.
-Over the next few months we will start identifying priority areas and goals. These opportunities exist in all counties: Schools, Community Gardens, Farmers Markets, Local Food Producer involvement, Food Pantries & Food Banks.
Come to the meeting with your two top priorities!
A simple voting system will be available and information will be used in future meetings.
-Results
Community Gardens (14 votes)
Farmers Markets (13 votes)
Food Pantries (3 votes)
Local Food Producer Involvement (13 votes)
Schools and Fresh Local Food (17 votes)
-Prior to the January meeting we will ask input about specific projects to discuss at the Meeting.
-We will set goals for CVRFFN at the January meeting.
7. Next Meeting and Surveys (10 minutes)
8. Adjourn
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