Healthy Food Access and Consumption Workgroup

Advocating for healthcare providers to invest in healthy food access

• • Providing input to the CHNA process and proposals on how hospitals can invest in healthy food access points in our region. 
  • Strategizing how to get health insurance companies promoting healthy food access programming by the hospitals through reimbursements or mandates to the hospitals. 

• • Supporting a state-wide effort to secure funding for nutrition incentive programs.  

Land Use & Production Workgroup

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Planning, Zoning, Assessment & Waste Workgroup

• After reviewing the costs of water access, surveying gardens for their water access needs and interests, and exploring how to reduce costs and increase availability, the workgroup is compiling information into a how-to guide for gardens to obtain water access.  
  

• The director and members of the council have been advising an inter-departmental committee on proposed changes. A draft proposal should be available for review in Fall 2018 and the Council is arranging community outreach to educate neighborhoods on the potential ordinance. 
  
• Norwood is considering a market garden ordinance to allow vacant lots to be used for production. Contact me if you live in Norwood and would like more details. 
  

• GoZero is working to set up neighborhood organic waste in Cincinnati, where community members can drop off their waste at a community tote that they haul every week. Cost is around $3600 a year, and they're looking for a host site and funding. 
  

• Susan Jorgensen has been hired as the Share Table Ambassador in our region to promote share tables to schools and create community and regulator connections as needed for their successful implementation.  
  

• We are partnering with Hamilton Co Recycling and Solid Waste District to establish a Smart Kitchens program where we help offset the cost of adopting a waste tracking and reduction software such as LeanPath. Save the Food Fellows are helping to recruit kitchens and coordinate implementation of the technologies and food recovery apps. 
  

Distribution & Procurement Workgroup

• We are exploring how to organize students to be advocates for local, sustainable procurement policies at their Universities 
  

• The Cincinnati Public Schools have undergone an evaluation of their supply chain. The results of the analysis are expected in November 2018. 
  

• In partnership with LFAT members, we are applying for a farm to school planning grant to develop F2S action plans for interested schools in our region.