[Southern California Permaculture] Listening Sessions for SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION PLAN/Mar 17 18 19

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - FOOD ACTION PLAN
Listening Sessions: March 17, 18, & 19, 2015
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY - FOOD ACTION PLAN
Listening Sessions: March 17, 18, & 19, 2015

Locations:  Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Solvang

For healthy people, a healthy economy, and a healthy environment

The SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FOOD ACTION PLAN is a 
strategy-based community blueprint for an 
accessible, thriving, sustainable, and healthy 
food system. This will address every aspect of 
the food system in a way that supports healthy 
people, a healthy economy, and a healthy environment.

These LISTENING SESSIONS are an opportunity for 
the community to engage in the development of the 
Food Action Plan, and develop strategies for 
implementation. Participants will be asked to 
contribute based on their professional knowledge, 
expertise, or personal experiences.

Tuesday March 17 10:00am-12:00pm Cornerstone Room 
705 South McClelland Santa Maria

Wednesday March 18 1:00pm-3:00pm Faulkner Gallery 
Santa Barbara Public Library 40 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara

Wednesday March 18 6:30pm-8:30pm Legion Wing Veterans Hall
1745 Mission Drive Solvang
Spanish Translations will be provided

Questions? Email <mailto:sbcfoodaction at gmail.com>sbcfoodaction at gmail.com.

The FOOD ACTION PLAN will address:

AGRICULTURE VIABILITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES FOOD ACCESS & JUSTICE
HEALTH & NUTRITION

POTENTIAL OUTCOMES

We anticipate the FOOD ACTION PLAN will result in 
the following types of outcomes:

    * Improve public health in key areas
    * Improve food access and security through
    * increased small-scale growing
    * Improve food literacy through partnership 
and common goals with a wide variety of local agencies
    * Reduce pollution and waste by promoting a ‘closed loop’ food system
    * Create a more resilient local food system 
to withstand the shocks of natural or man-made disasters
    * Promote community economic development
    * Inform or influence policy



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