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Community Food Security
In all of its work, Food Roots embraces the basic principles of Community Food Security: keeping a community focus, encouraging self-reliance and empowerment, meeting the nutritional needs of low income people, and supporting local agriculture, food production, processing and markets.
Community & School Gardens
Our roots go back to 1999 when we helped to start and run the first community garden in Tillamook County. Over the past seven years, operating as the Community Foods Program of CARE, the impact of our program has continued to grow. There are now more than ten community and school gardens throughout Tillamook County that we helped start, supported or provided resources for. Through these gardens we have helped create places where families can learn about and grow some of their own food. These gardens also provide fresh, healthy food to local agencies administering emergency food for those in need.
Education, Advocacy and Outreach
Through our Education and Community Outreach Programs we seek to raise awareness about the importance of a healthy and thriving food system. We make connections between neighbors, gardeners, farmers, producers, food businesses, consumers, schools, churches, hunger relief and other community organizations, and government -- working together for positive change in our food system.
Resources for Community Food Systems.
From seeds, plants, trees, soil amendments, to sharing tools,
equipment and curriculum, Food Roots
provides resources throughout Tillamook County that help support
local food production.
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Community Food Assessment: Finding Our Food
Roots
Food Roots, with help from the Tillamook County Commission on Children and Families and the Oregon Food Bank, is organizing a Tillamook County Community Food Assessment (CFA) to find out what our community members most want to see change within our local food system and to give all an opportunity to participate in bringing about these changes. During community gatherings, county residents have met to discuss food needs and create plans for change. In the coming months, we will work to make changes within the following areas of need as identified by community members:
- greater local food distribution and availability
- community outreach and education about local food
- agricultural education
- more local foods in schools
- food processing and networking facilities
- improved low-income access to local food
- community gardens
We all have a stake in our local food system—this is a chance to share your voice! We hope to engage all community members in the assessment process, as a meaningful CFA depends on community leadership and involvement.
For more about the CFA, view the full summary
(pdf).
For more information contact Food Roots at
503-842-3154 Extension 2 or .
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