SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - FOOD ACTION PLAN
Listening Sessions: March 17, 18, & 19, 2015
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - FOOD ACTION PLAN
Listening Sessions: March 17, 18, & 19, 2015
Locations: Santa Maria, Santa Barbara,
Solvang
For healthy people, a healthy economy, and a healthy environment
The SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION PLAN is a strategy-based community
blueprint for an accessible, thriving, sustainable, and healthy food
system. This will address every aspect of the food system in a way that
supports healthy people, a healthy economy, and a healthy
environment.
These LISTENING SESSIONS are an opportunity for the community to engage
in the development of the Food Action Plan, and develop strategies for
implementation. Participants will be asked to contribute based on their
professional knowledge, expertise, or personal experiences.
Tuesday March 17 10:00am-12:00pm Cornerstone Room 705 South McClelland
Santa Maria
Wednesday March 18 1:00pm-3:00pm Faulkner Gallery Santa Barbara Public
Library 40 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara
Wednesday March 18 6:30pm-8:30pm Legion Wing Veterans Hall
1745 Mission Drive Solvang
Spanish Translations will be provided
Questions? Email
sbcfoodaction@gmail.com.
The FOOD ACTION PLAN will address:
AGRICULTURE VIABILITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES FOOD ACCESS
& JUSTICE
HEALTH & NUTRITION
POTENTIAL OUTCOMES
We anticipate the FOOD ACTION PLAN will result in the following types of
outcomes:
- Improve public health in key areas
- Improve food access and security through
- increased small-scale growing
- Improve food literacy through partnership and common goals with a
wide variety of local agencies
- Reduce pollution and waste by promoting a ‘closed loop’ food
system
- Create a more resilient local food system to withstand the shocks of
natural or man-made disasters
- Promote community economic development
- Inform or influence policy
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(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
http://www.sbpermaculture.org
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