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Created: Nov 18, 2008
Updated: Nov 17, 2009
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Funding Resources for Regional Food Systems work
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The Central Coast Environmental Health Project (CCEHP) is looking for new funding sources with which to move beyond issues of pesticides and health towards larger issues surrounding agriculture and local food systems.
Santa Barbara County is blessed with great climate, lot's of agricultural land, and many community based organizations contributing to the quality of life and wellbeing for all residents. However, there has also been historical anymosity between farmers, environmentalists, and others who are seen as posing a threat to agricultural viability.
CCEHP is currently in a great position to partner with local farmers who would like to move the local, sustainable food system forward, and get produce to underserved communities, local schools, and the community at large. But to do so, we need funding. Beyond the big names who might support these efforts, who else at a smaller level might be interested? Would funders value this type of effort between individual private farmers and a regional organization?
It's also important to note that such alliances between farmers and organizations such as our own can rekindle positive relationships between groups where there has been little common ground in the recent past.
Santa Barbara County is blessed with great climate, lot's of agricultural land, and many community based organizations contributing to the quality of life and wellbeing for all residents. However, there has also been historical anymosity between farmers, environmentalists, and others who are seen as posing a threat to agricultural viability.
CCEHP is currently in a great position to partner with local farmers who would like to move the local, sustainable food system forward, and get produce to underserved communities, local schools, and the community at large. But to do so, we need funding. Beyond the big names who might support these efforts, who else at a smaller level might be interested? Would funders value this type of effort between individual private farmers and a regional organization?
It's also important to note that such alliances between farmers and organizations such as our own can rekindle positive relationships between groups where there has been little common ground in the recent past.
