Informatics for Community Food Resilience

1. Links

This Meeting notes document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_sCNPw8lRTyaX6Zn9LC_51wf0diI0oN9St-wgQeHIE/edit?usp=sharing 

New Website: https://resilientfood.org/ 

GOAT forum discussion: http://forum.goatech.org/t/informatics-for-community-food-resilience-in-times-of-pandemic-and-beyond/833 

Give us feedback!

https://bit.ly/resilientfoodfeedback 

Are the calls, emails, and website helpful? How’s the project moving along from your perspective? Fill out the anonymous feedback survey to let us know!

2. Notes

New pages on our website: Software for Local Food and Community Food Pathways.

Software Update:

• Software List (so far) -- please submit a resource if you see one missing!
• What do people need in the short term?
• What helps farm coordination and consumer coordination?
• Please let us know if you want to join us?

What do these user groups need (Farmers/Farm Supporters, Consumers/Consumer Coordinators)?

• What is the overlap between farmers and consumers in software needs?

Community Food Pathways Team:

• Pam Sherman has joined us from Colorado (started a local food system and regenerative ag food hub on facebook in the pandemic - wildly popular!)

• A subsistence farmer and writer at +8000 feet

• Abigail Darwin has joined us from Athens, GA. Getting her masters in Crop and Soil Science. Involved in local farmer’s markets and transitioning to academic research to address food insecurity in rural america.

• Not super tech savvy :) and likes to have her hands in the soil!

• Juliet Norton has joined from Martinez, CA (remote post-doc at Purdue U) and has 10 years experience in working with grassroots local, sustainable food movement in understanding and addressing information challenges.

Consumer group:

• Athens has had a great job returning to local food. Been difficult to organize reaching out to undocumented communities, those who are at risk regarding health or economics, etc.
• Digital divide -- those who have privilege can access thing while those who don’t have privilege often get left out.
• Food equity and justice -- how do we make sure we’re not inadvertently skewing in this work.
• As soon as shut down happened, many small farmers were able to pivot. Restaurants turned into stores. Ready made get take out, pop-up pantries, pop-up farmers markets. Deliveries and delivery services.
• Farmers markets flourished and gave away huge amounts of foods.
• Large ranch has given away 10k pounds of meat
• Gleaning organizations
• Intermediary organizations (food banks) are the interface for people on the unprivileged side of the digital divide.

What is the availability of protective equipment for food distributors?

• Athens

• farmers are doing direct to porch, no contact
• Markets are reopening, requiring masks and gloves. Community members have been creating masks to support hospitals, now has an excess
• Farmers are wearing PPE while harvesting

• CO

• PPE is gloves and masks
• Their community is not over-stocked, but community members are making masks

Request for Project Management Support:

• Regional Grant writing Coordinators
• Regional Recruitment Coordinators
• Website Content and Mailing List Admin

Donna is interested in Grant Writing

Pam is interested in Regional Recruitment

3. Open discussion:

How did you decide to delineate the regions: USDA Service Regions

Does this mean if there are 10 states in the region that each state gets 3 interviews? Not necessarily. Some states may not be represented, and we need to be clear about it.

Confirm meetings -

Tech team - Mondays at 11am ET

Consumer Team - Thursdays at 11 am ET

Who do we want map pathways for:

• Individuals
• Communities
• Organizations

Meeting call information needs to be on the website, and updated on the GOAT Calendar

4. Chat:

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:06  PM

Document for today's notes, feel free to contribute: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_sCNPw8lRTyaX6Zn9LC_51wf0diI0oN9St-wgQeHIE/edit#

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:08  PM

Join by phone

Tap to call in from a mobile device (attendees only)

+1-855-282-6330 US TOLL FREE

+1-415-655-0003 US TOLL

Toll-free calling restrictions

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:08  PM

Meeting number (access code): 617 565 586

Meeting password: food

from Donna Gatza to Everyone:        12:41  PM

I can help with grant writing.

from Andrew T Flachs to Everyone:        12:41  PM

Thanks all, I have to run to the next meeting

from Pam Sherman to Everyone:        12:42  PM

Regional Recruitment

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:42  PM

Thanks Donna! Thanks Andrew!

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:48  PM

https://app.surveystack.io/

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        12:51  PM

nm

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        12:52  PM

that works!

from Erik Hassert to Everyone:        12:54  PM

Just let me know what time you land on.  I just had to take a client call.  Thank!

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:54  PM

Thanks Erik

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        12:57  PM

Hey Erik, we're meeting on 5/21 at 11 am ET.

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        12:58  PM

does anyone have a link to the notes from this past Mon's meeting for the Software Group?

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        1:00  PM

YES give me a sec

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        1:01  PM

or really, I'm thinking about action items before next Mon's meeting, not sure if that doc includes anything

from Juliet Norton to Everyone:        1:03  PM

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xcweh0Y2v_ui9IyfHqxgTSjhCzEgCVgehbmPJABHIe0/edit

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        1:03  PM

thanks!

from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone:        1:06  PM

thanks, bye!