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Commission reviews draft food-resilience strategy and identifies near-term grant deadlines
Summary
A commissioner presented a draft food-resilience strategy, historical context for the Bloomington Community Farmers Market and a short list of federal grant opportunities (USDA Community Food Projects and resilient-food-systems infrastructure grants) that could fund storage, aggregation and processing infrastructure.
Commissioner Jamie Scholl updated the commission on a draft food-resilience strategy and flagged near-term grant opportunities that could support local food aggregation, storage and processing.
Scholl said she would circulate a comment spreadsheet for commissioners to provide feedback ahead of the next meeting and intends to collate responses. She called attention to grants administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including the Community Food Projects program (applications noted around early October) and a resilient-food-system infrastructure grant (with a November deadline) that could fund refrigerators, storage and local processing equipment.
Scholl also summarized a brief history she researched about the Bloomington Community Farmers Market, noting that early market rules included provisions for residents to sell produce grown on their own property. She said historical context may inform current conversations about market rules and local food policy.
Commissioners asked for time to review the draft and suggested a future meeting devoted to specific strategy elements and possible grant applications. No formal vote or allocations were made during the meeting; Scholl said she would send a revised packet and a comment matrix for commissioner input.
