challenges and opportunities in building a regional food system in truckee-tahoe

BUILDING A REGIONAL, SUSTAINABLE & EQUITABLE

FOOD SYSTEM

Susie Sutphin susie@tahoefoodhub.org www.tahoefoodhub.org

Tahoe Silicon Mountain

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With regenerative farming, we're building in the soil mychorrhiza fungi. It sits down there in the soil and holds carbon for a long, long time. When you pour fertilizer down there, you kill the fungi and it volatizes into the atmosphere into carbon dioxide. Agriculture as we now practice it is one of the biggest contributors to global warming, but it could be one of the biggest mitigators.

I love food for what it provides my body, my community and my environment. If we all revered food in this way, everyone would have foodlust.

Inspirations

Farm to Market

How do we help small farms get to market?

Regional Food System

FOOD HUB

farms ranches dairies

specialty food

restaurants grocery stores

schools hospitals

drive demand And

raise awareness

Educate & Outreach

Farm to Market - source regionally -

Sierra Agroecology Center - grow locally -

Food Security

“where life thrives”

REPORTS & STUDIES

• The 25% Shift Report (Michael Shuman)

• Food Hubs: Solving Local (Wallace Center)

• Moving Food Along the Value Chain: Innovations in Regional Food Distribution (USDA)

• Organic Farming for Health and Prosperty (OFRF)

• Why Healthy Food Matters (PolicyLink/The Food Trust)

• The Role of Food Hubs in Local Food Marketing (USDA)

RESOURCES

Susie Sutphin susiesutphin@sbcglobal.net

www.tahoefoodhub.org