Northern Colorado Foodshed Project
The Northern Colorado Foodshed Project exists to enliven Northern Colorado's food system, making it more productive, accessible, and secure. Run by an invested board of directors and a small team of passionate people, its focus is on expanding the capacity of the local food system and empowering those within it.
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In 2019, the Northern Colorado Foodshed Project was founded to coordinate holistic local food system development in order to grow local food in Northern Colorado. This initiative brought together public, private, and nonprofit organizations, along with community members, producers, and resources, to design and build a more equitable, vibrant, and resilient local food system. The goal for the project was to address three key areas of growth and opportunity: food sovereignty and access, community outreach and education, and production growth and land access. Our role was to liaise with project partners in finalizing a planning grant application for the US Department of Agriculture’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure program.
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Conduct authentic community collaborations with established and potential partners to envision, define, and design the local food system scope and structure.
Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data within the three key areas of opportunity and to create innovative, sustainable, and community-driven solutions toward a more equitable, vibrant, and resilient local food system.
Form and establish a local food equity advisory council to promote interconnectivity and inclusivity by prioritizing marginalized voices in the local food system, generating a dialogue between diverse stakeholders and community members, and building capacity for leaders in a more equitable framework.
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Our work played an integral part in the completion of the planning grant. The grant report shared aggregated data from key partners and stakeholders to help set project priorities, connect resources and services, and establish ways to measure progress toward common goals.
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Oct 2023–Jan 2024
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Andrea Mader — Client communication, tool design, data collection, data analysis, and report writing
