FOOD ACTION
What is Food Action?
Food Action supports the work of mobile markets, farmers' markets, and community and school gardens.
Top priorities for food action are:
Reducing stigma about food insecurity using storytelling.
Food recovery and gleaning
Access to healthy food - support farmers markets and mobile markets, HIP education
Nutrition education, including for kids, about food is medicine, and reducing stigma
Food gatherings
Aims
Developing and supporting programs and initiatives that promote thriving, self-sustaining local food systems and economies that are accessible to all
Supporting FAC subcircles by sharing information, creating opportunities for connection among them, and offering direct support to help them achieve their aims
Domains
Community led food access and production initiatives in Hampshire County, such as:
Community and school gardens
Aggregation and distribution (mobile markets, food rescue, farmers markets)