Do you love to garden, and want to share your love of gardening with children? Are you a food producer who is looking for more ways to market your product locally? Are you interested in finding a way to bring good local food into your workplace, for meetings and breaks? Would you like to work with others to make fresh produce available in schools?
Eating local healthy food makes sense for individual good health, plus it makes sense for growing our local economy. It is a simple enough idea – connecting good food to people who want to eat it. But even the simplest ideas are often complex to carry out. Sustainable Woodstock’s Nick Mahood and OCP’s Jackie Fischer have been thinking about ways to strengthen the local food system, and we recently decided to establish a Local Healthy Food Council to facilitate this process. We invite you to join us in a conversation about it on April 12th. The goal of the Council will be to make the healthy choice the easy choice, by increasing access to local healthy food and by connecting local food producers and consumers in schools, stores, and in the community at large.
If this is a topic that interests you, the next Community Coalition meeting is the place for you. Join us on Tuesday, April 12th from 5-7 p.m. at Woodstock Elementary School for what’s sure to be an interesting and productive conversation. Participants should each bring a local healthy treat to share, making for a tasty conversation, too!
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