If you live in the Johnson County area, we would love for you to attend tonight's Indiana Food Vision- Johnson County Listening Session at 5:30 held at Purdue Extension Johnson County.
I have had a lot of questions about the Indiana Food Vision the last few months and hope you have directed your questions and thoughts to the website and to the contact email. The website it fairly informative but please reach out if you need further context or would like to be involved.
At tonight's event our discussion will center around these questions:
*What is a food system and what is our role in it?
*What is working/not working in our food system?
*What assets do we have currently and can build on?
*What would a perfect food system look like?
Details of note:
-We all eat- so we all have a place in this conversation. Even those who grow our food.
-I think we can all agree that we want to see more 'Indiana Food' on 'Indiana Plates' and there are many ways and many paths to get to that goal.
-A food system includes growing food, transporting food, processing food, packaging food, buying food, cooking/eating food, disposing of food, reusing of food, and so on. That is a big space, and it takes a lot of ideas and a lot of pathways to feed our communities.
-Lastly, when creating a food system that is organized for a community and region- you need input from people who work in these areas to really move the needle: zoning, policy, public spaces, small business development, marketing, public education, planning, economic development, healthcare, emergency food assistance, healthy food education, food councils, community foundations, community governments, and so on.
So, it is vital to have a cohesive discussion on topics that are actually relevant to us all- and how we eat, where we buy our food, and eating in general- that is a relative topic amongst us all.
Happy to discuss offline, please reach out. I am only one of many volunteers.
IndianaFoodVision.org to learn more and to take the completely anonymous household survey which is just in place to gather data statewide.
Director of Finance
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