Calling all farmers

In northeast Colorado, I am a part of a food summit. The reason for this food summit is to help bring people together to solve access to local food. Also on the food summit are Jodi Walker, director at Kids at Their Best Morgan County; Alicia Sears, registered nurse who operates the Kirk Food Pantry in Yuma County; and Margo Ebersole, Rural Communities Resource Center (including Washington County Connections) in Yuma and Washington counties and occasionally other areas.

Our focus is to build better access to local food and build connections between agencies so that we can have true collaborations. We have three overall objectives:

1. Raise awareness to access local food sources.

2. Build a comprehensive directory of sources for food access, benefits by county and information from Hunger Free Colorado data.

3. Expand education on gardening in the schools.

One of the first objectives we are interested in knowing is who are the farmers in the Golden Plains Area and Morgan County who might have fresh food to share with different entities in our counties? What type of food? How much food? And when will it be harvested?

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