Neighborhood Apple Picking

Community Initiatives  organizes collaborative community systems for food security and food safety at all economic levels.

We connect people and organizations across the Food Web to work together on action plans for grower support, processing, marketing, and food leadership capacity.

In 2010, Ten Rivers Food Web in collaboration with partners will host the Regional Food Summit to connect people and organizations across the Food Web.

We are working to establish fluid communications to highlight all food system work within the Food Web to minimize duplication and strengthen all efforts.

Country fence on a foggy morning

Ten Rivers is creating a Community Food Project to strengthen the East Linn County food system by connecting community gardens, certified community kitchens, food banks, meal programs and other resources in such a way that we improve our community self-sufficiency through microbusiness development, job creation, improving access to high quality local foods and improved knowledge about growing and preserving food.

Community Initiatives

• Promotes neighborhood food groups for food and knowledge sharing.
• Supports urban garden initiatives in communities throughout the Food Web.
• Supports Farm to School programs for the benefit of children and local food producers.
• Increases the amount of locally-grown foods available in local food banks.
• Promotes opportunities to learn how to grow, cook, and preserve food.

Read about the OSU Campus Food Pantry — a project of the Ten Rivers Community Initiatives Program.