Infrastructure

The Infrastructure Working Group set out this priority strategy to implement the regional goal and objectives developed at the Farm Route to Prosperity Summit, February 24, 2009:
 

• Establish an industry roundtable of regional food producers, buyers, distributors, and processors to identify and address gaps in market infrastructure, such as a lack of smaller scale pre-processing facilities (coring, seeding, etc) or the ability of individual farms to supply larger orders, such as through cooperative regional branding.

 
Related Projects
Farmers Markets 
Vision: To help farmers markets become more and more centers of commerce and community.

• Identified first step to
• Work plan ideas: 1) Develop ways to share resources and information 2) Engage community resources like Taste the Local Difference in moving forward.
• Next steps: Engage more people in conversation. Rob Bagiagalupi of Traverse City market signed up to convene farmers markets and others in fall 2010.