New Champions, Expanded Scope for Strengthening a Multi-county Food System

This session should interest local food organizations that are primarily run by one or two dedicated staff in a community, often on volunteer time. How can the cause grow to be championed by many other leaders in the community? A few leaders in Black Hawk and neighboring counties conducted a planning process to identify ways of involving more organizations and develop priority areas. We’re in our second year and have our work cut out for us. The original volunteer organizers now have paid jobs! The Northern Iowa Food and Farm Partnership is taking shape, we have identified certain priority areas, and have lots of questions that you maybe able to help us with.

Contacts:
Robin Gaines
Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community
1922 5th Avenue NW
Waverly, IA 50677
info@bartelscommunity.org
319-352-4540

Bill Arndorfer
ISU Extension
703 F. Ave. Ste. 1
Grundy Center, IA 50638-1450
barndorf@iastate.edu
319-824-6979

Kamyar Enshayan
University of Northern Iowa
Center For Energy & Environmental Education (UNI-CEEE)
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0293
kamyar.enshayan@uni.edu
319-273-2573