Now’s the time to seek out local food and farm products to keep up with the Illinois Products Challenge. Don’t forget that there are Illinois grown fresh or processed foods and farm products such as beeswax, wool, and wood distributed throughout Illinois. Take the challenge and find the winter markets and local harvest shops in [...]
Illinois Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Council (ILFFJC) Meeting COUNTDOWN 2020: December 5, 2012 10:00 am-3:00pm Location: Illinois Department of Agriculture Building Illinois State Fair Grounds 801 E. Sangamon Avenue Springfield, IL 62702 Conference Call: 1-712-775-7400 Access Code: 271081# Click here for the agendaILFFJC.Dec 5 2012 mtg agenda.FINAL
Representatives of four state agencies and the Office of the Lieutenant Governor’s Office prepared a report to be presented at the June 6th meeting of the ILFFJC. Click on this link to read more: ILFFJC state agency reports june 2012
Illinois Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Council (ILFFJC) Meeting A New Approach to Community Building for Illinois Wednesday, June 6, 2012 10:00 am-3:00pm Location: Illinois Department of Agriculture Building Illinois State Fair Grounds 801 E. Sangamon Avenue Springfield, IL 62702 There will be some interesting reports given by Illinois’ Central Management [...]
Collaboration Leads to FOOD HUB Report Timothy Lindsey of IL Dept of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) along with Jim Slama of Family Farmed.org have released a report titled, “Building Successful Food Hubs: A Business Planning Guide for Aggregating and Processing Local Foods in Illinois”. The DCEO, Illinois BIS, IL Dept of Agriculture and [...]
Illinois Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Council (ILFFJC) Meeting A New Approach to Community Building for Illinois Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:00 am-3:00pm Location: Illinois Department of Agriculture Building Illinois State Fair Grounds 801 E. Sangamon Avenue Springfield, IL 62702 Conference Call: Toll-free: 888/363-4734 Access Code: 7301955 To review [...]
On December 7, 2011 the Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Council (ILFFJC) approved the logic models depicting the 7 priority areas to be addressed by select working groups. Working group facilitators were identified and indicators were shared for the groups to use in evaluation of the achievement of work goals. These priorities were established [...]
Food Access, Food Justice and Collective Action in Fort Greene & Clinton Hill, Brooklyn – 2011 Community Food Assessment Though this report comes from two communities in New York, it provides helpful information about their strategies and the tools used to assess their communities access to fresh foods and addresses the issue of food justice. [...]
Charting a Course toward Good Food and Good Business: State Options December 14, 2011 11 a.m. Central Time Charting a Course toward Good Food and Good Business: State Options Healthier people and a more thriving economy can result from strengthening food systems. This webinar will feature presentations about work in the states to bring food that is [...]
Authors of a recent USDA ERS report had this to say about the local food sales in the US during 2008: Despite increased production and consumer interest, locally grown food accounts for a small segment of U.S. agriculture. For local foods production to continue to grow, marketing channels and supply chain infrastructure must deepen. Information [...]