Local Foods Task Force

Description:

The local foods task force will work to:

  • identify factors that impede the growth of local food markets, such as policies at the local, county and state levels
  • Define how community colleges are impacted by the economic, health and environmental benefits of local food ; and
  • Promote community involvement that will create synergies and partnerships between the various stakeholder groups that drive market-based changes to positively affect the local food supply chain.

Goal:
To identify and prioritize how the Network can support, assist and engage Illinois community colleges to participate in, expand and promote local food markets.
Participating Colleges
Group Facilitators:
  • Rob Hilgenbrink
  • Lavon Nelson, ICCB
  • Lincoln Land Community College (Julie Bates)
 Group Members:
  • Heartland Community College (Rebecca Rossi)
  • Wilbur Wright College (Dave Inman)
  • College of Lake County (Dara Reiff)
  • Kankakee Community College (Rich Schultz)
  • Wilbur Wright College (Victoria Cooper)
  • Kennedy King College (Martin Pieters)
  • John Wood Community College (David Camphouse)
  • Kankakee Community College (Scott Stewart)
Products & Updates:
Local Foods Task Force Presentation, June 2011
Local Foods White Paper, July 2011

Over the next several months, members of this work group will meet to identify priorities, collect data and develop a process for implementation. The goals and deliverables set forth here are subject to change pending work group member progress.