community food systems
DESCRIPTION
Community Food Systems. Nebraska Sustainability Leadership Workshop Jim Crandall Nebraska Cooperative Development Center-UNL. Nebraska Cooperative Development Center UNL. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Community Food Systems
Nebraska Sustainability Leadership Workshop
Jim CrandallNebraska Cooperative Development Center-
UNL
![Page 2: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Nebraska Cooperative Development Center UNL
The Nebraska Cooperative Development Center is Nebraska’s center for cooperative based business development. We provide education, training, and technical assistance to cooperatively owned business, be it a cooperative, an LLC, or other business structure.
![Page 3: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Nebraska Cooperative Development Center
• Created in 1999 to help develop rural businesses that were cooperatively owned. NCDC has worked with over 100 cooperatively owned businesses since it’s inception. NCDC is now part of UNL, CARI, Ag Economics Dept.
• Worked with several value added agriculture companies, many of them involved in direct marketing their production to the consumer.
• Began working with Local Foods in early 2000. (AmeriCorps Members, Buy Nebraska, All Nebraska Meals, and more)
![Page 4: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Trends• National trend to buy and consume locally
grown food– Know who your food comes from
– Perceived as safer
– Perceived as more nutritious
– Interest in sustaining local farmers
– Some view as food security issue
– “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food”
![Page 5: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
General Economies• US residents spend slightly less than 10% of their
household income on food
• Nebraska median household income is about $39,000.
• Approximately $3900 spent on food annually per household
• Metro area is about 143,000 with an average household size of 2.7 persons
• $208,985,400 spent on food!!
![Page 6: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
General Economies• If local food producers could capture even 1%
of the local food expenditures, it would amount to $2,089,854!!
• That $2,089,854 stays in the area on local farms
• That equates to 52 $40K jobs annually just from buying local foods
• Is it worth it for community leaders to help facilitate local food systems?
![Page 7: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Local economies• Local grocers
• Local restaurants
• Farmers Markets
• Local organizations/businesses
• Examples…………….
![Page 8: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
![Page 9: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Local Food Guide
![Page 10: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Buy Fresh, Buy Local NebraskaFounding Partners
![Page 11: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
New Buy Fresh Buy Local Areas
• Central Nebraska• South Central RC&D• Loup Basin RC&D• Prairie Land RC&D• Others?
![Page 12: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Billene NemecCoordinator103 Miller HallLincoln, NE [email protected]
Elaine Cranford103 Miller HallLincoln, NE [email protected]
www.buylocalnebraska.org
Eating is an Agricultural Act-Wendell Berry
It’s a Political Act as Well-Michael Pollan
![Page 13: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Sample Impacts
• More than 5400 pounds of ground beef sourced from local farms for 2 meals per month August-May.
• One cafeteria, some at East Campus Union, plus some catered meals
• The first year they sourced food from about 20 farmers/producers. Now they source from 68.
![Page 16: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
![Page 17: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Food system without Bricks and Mortar
• On-line market
• Members of the cooperative are producers and consumers
• Delivery to central location twice/month seasonally, once/month out of season
• Volunteer labor to sort and package
![Page 18: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
![Page 21: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
![Page 23: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
![Page 24: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
We’re Not Doing it Alone
![Page 26: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Food Related business development
• Family Farm and Rancher Meats Coop
• Farmers Choice• Farmstead First Dairy• Good Fresh Local, UNL
Dining Hall • GROW Nebraska• Heartland Nuts N More Coop• Mainbow Meats• Many Rivers Producers Coop
• Nebraska Food Cooperative
• Nebraska Sandhills Yellow Perch Coop
• Northstar Neighbors LLC
• Nutritech Ostrich LLC
• Small Farms Cooperative
• Wolf’s Den Grocery
![Page 27: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Sustainable Communities• Sustainable Leadership
• Sustainable Businesses• Ash Hollow grocery store coop, Ainsworth Clothing Coop, Bloomfield Soy Products LLC, Blue River Ethanol
• BuyNebraska.org, CC Ag., Centerville Market LLC, Community Crops, Custer County Ag. Products,
• Daly Ranch Meats, Eddyville Steakhouse LLC, Ethanol Power Producers, Imperial, Ethnic Farmers Market project
• Family Farm and Rancher Meats Coop, Grain Value added processing, Blackwoods Hunting and Recreation
• Heartland Natural Fibers Coop, Heartland Nuts N More Coop, Hilltop Hay Coop, Husker Ag. Processing LLC
• KAAPA-Mexican grain project, Libby Creek Farm Alliance, Lindsay Grocery Store Coop,
• Longpine Business Incubator, Madrid Ethanol, NC+ Organic Seed, Nebraska Community Food Network
• Nebraska Farmers Market Association, Nebraska Sun Oil Coop, Nebraska Woody Florals Coop
• New Millennium Sheep Alliance, Niobrara Wood Products LLC, Nutritech Ostrich LLC, Oregon Trail Ethanol Coalition
• Panhandle Rural Health Coop, Panhandle Marketing Coop, Partners Hay Marketing cooperative,
• Prairie Farms Marketing Alliance, Producer Owned Woolen Mill, Regional Natural Meats Coop (multi-state)
• Roseland Distillers Grain Project, Rural Ranchers, SE Nebraska Alternative Crops (Arbor Trails Winery Cooperative)
• SE Nebraska Area Producers Coop, Seasonal Grass Dairy, South Central Biodiesel Project,
• St. James Market Place/Heartland Experience, Tele-health Coop, The Worm Firm, Unified Soy Processors LLC
• Valley Vegetable, Western Nebraska Grape Growers Assn., Wyo-Braska Bean Cooperative
![Page 28: Community Food Systems](https://reader035.vdocuments.site/reader035/viewer/2022062217/568148b1550346895db5c620/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Local Foods – Local Impacts
Jim CrandallAssociate Director
Nebraska Cooperative Development Center-UNLCooperative Business Development Specialist
11854 730 Rd.Holdrege, NE 68949