Informatics for Community Food Resilience
4. Description of Working Groups 2
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1. Links
This Meeting notes document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17IYzPq7H65gm8TYDoyLbYikPlAouJwb6U5RORow1hxU/edit?usp=sharing
Concept overview: https://sudokita.com/informatics-for-community-food-resilience/
GOAT forum discussion: http://forum.goatech.org/t/informatics-for-community-food-resilience-in-times-of-pandemic-and-beyond/833
2. Participants
3. Meeting Notes
-- 3:03PM -- Meeting kickoff
-- 1st phase Farmer focused qualitative study and coupled with an evaluation of the tech landscape.
-- 2nd phase Participatory design effort that is farmer centered and community driven
-- 3rd phase Rapid prototyping and community testing
-- Gwenael E. (U.C. Davis Sustainable Research and Education) -- Does this project intend to include larger farms who sell into wholesale channels given that small diversified farms tend to already have an online platform?
EBT -- A potential area to really dive into in this project.
Anecdotally speaking, small-scale farmers tend to use online markets, but what about the large scale farmers that typically go to market but now need to pivot direct-to-consumer?
This is not going to be addressed through the sociological and technical infrastructure. We’re going to run into regional processing structures that would allow for the larger farms to start to operate for local markets and online platforms. The smaller-scale diversified farms aren’t having to pivot as much as larger scale farms.
Trying to support the Ag of the Middle, but also support those who are trying to get to direct-to-consumer.
Connecting with local food hubs. How to local farms, no matter how large, and local processes to connect with each other. Get the local tomatoes into the tomato sauce.
Is the idea to create new tools? No, not necessarily, instead show which tool best for each farmer and find the places where tools are missing.
Add Graze cart to the list of tools.
from Andrew T Flachs to Everyone: 12:38 PM
Thinking about our recruitment - is the idea to speak with people who are already doing some online marketing and build up? To identify the missing growers who are not online? Both?
We’d like to talk to people who haven’t managed to get online and those who have. This helps us understand both the barriers to getting online and what has been working. From a research design perspective it would be helpful to understand how we can strengthen our sampling technique.
from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone: 12:38 PM
What kind of decision-making process do you envision taking place as we go from the broader problem space, which is incredibly vast, to more targeted prototyping phase, which must be highly constrained in scope, by factors of time and resources?
In a lot of ways, the things we learn in the first week will drive the prioritization in our prototyping phase. So does what we understand to be possible and can be done quickly.
from Kirsten Serrano to Everyone: 12:38 PM
When talking about local processors, don't forget local restaurants with commercial kitchens.
Ankita: Restaurants are bucketed under organizations, is that best?, along with schools, local food banks, restaurants -- how are they finding food? Distributing food?
from Liz Stites to Everyone: 12:43 PM
Where do farmers' markets fit into the conversation?
Ankita: There is an idea that this that some tools can just virtualize existing farmers markets...
From Linda R Smith (VT) 15:53
Food resiliency - what you are doing is taking for granted internet and technical knowledge. This current crisis means we need to depend on this because we cannot meet. Our next crisis may be different - where we lose this. How is this going to lead to resiliency that is not dependent on the internet etc.
Works with Putney Farmers’ Markets and … because Farmer’s Markets are non-essential
Current issues demonstrate the need for local food hubs
-- Resilient relationships bootstrapped via technology
-- Alternative network strategies that do not rely on the wider internet.
4. Description of Working Groups
- Farmer-Focus: farmers who can participate, folks who can help recruit farmers, folks who can provide input on behalf of groups of food system stakeholders. Opportunities to get involved:
- Week 0: Farmer recruitment and signups
- Week 1: Interviews
- Week 2 & 3: Contribute to design sessions
- Week 3 & 4: User testing
- Week 4+: Will be the first to go through the farmer triage process to get online with our collaboratively designed tools and systems
- Community-Focus: community organizers and coordinators, food hub folks, individuals who want to support this effort, individuals and organizations who want to form food hubs. Opportunities to get involved:
- Week 1: Articulating consumer pathways based on collective understanding
- Week 2 & 3: Contribute to design sessions
- Week 3 & 4: User testing
- Week 4+: Will be the first to go through the community mobilization process.
- Tech-Focus: folks who write technical documentation, develop tools, provide tech support. Opportunities to get involved:
- Week 1: evaluation of the technical landscape
- Week 2 & 3: contribute to to design sessions
- Week 3 & 4: build and set up technical infrastructure!
- Week 4+ : contribute to a growing open source community :)
- Research-Focus: researchers, data analysis, designers, writers. Opportunities to get involved:
- Week 0: collaborate on the qualitative study (next week!)
- Week 1: assist in interviews and conduct of the study
- Week 2: contribute to data analysis, writing, and synthesis of outputs into design artifacts
- Week 3+: contribute
Working Group Focus Area | Week 0 | Week 1 | Week 2 & 3 | Week 3 & 4 | Week 4+ |
Farmers | |||||
Community | |||||
Technology | |||||
Research |
Sign up form will be out in 1 week.
5. Chat Record
from Ankita Raturi to Everyone: 12:03 PM
Please note: we will record this meetin,g so if you'd like set your camera up as you see fit and let us know if you want us to blank out your name on shared materials - we are only recording to be able to share materials with those who cannot join us!
from juliet to Everyone: 12:03 PM
Shared notes for today's meeting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17IYzPq7H65gm8TYDoyLbYikPlAouJwb6U5RORow1hxU/edit?usp=sharing
from juliet to Everyone: 12:06 PM
Howdy!
from juliet to Everyone: 12:09 PM
If anyone has questions, feel free to ask them here!
from juliet to Everyone: 12:28 PM
For anyone who missed it the first time, here is the document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17IYzPq7H65gm8TYDoyLbYikPlAouJwb6U5RORow1hxU/edit?usp=sharing
from Gwenael Engelskirchen to Everyone: 12:28 PM
From what I've seen so far, the small-scale, diversified farms are the ones who are most likely to be using online platforms. Does this project intend to also include larger farms who were selling into wholesale channels and may be unfamiliar with direct-to-consumer platforms?
from Gwenael Engelskirchen to Everyone: 12:37 PM
National Good Food Network! Hosted by The Wallace Center. :)
from Andrew T Flachs to Everyone: 12:38 PM
Thinking about our recruitment - is the idea to speak with people who are already doing some online marketing and build up? To identify the missing growers who are not online? Both?
from Jamie Gaehring to Everyone: 12:38 PM
What kind of decision-making process do you envision taking place as we go from the broader problem space, which is incredibly vast, to more targeted prototyping phase, which must be highly constrained in scope, by factors of time and resources?
from Kirsten Serrano to Everyone: 12:38 PM
When talking about local processors, don't forget local restaurants with commercial kitchens.
from Liz Stites to Everyone: 12:43 PM
Where do farmers' markets fit into the conversation?
from juliet to Everyone: 12:49 PM
Anyone else need to text a question: 7274204717
from Michael Stenta to Everyone: 12:50 PM
Thank you Ankita and Juliet!!
from Gwenael Engelskirchen to Everyone: 12:52 PM
Thank you!
from Paul Weidner to Everyone: 12:53 PM
Thanks!
from Linda R Smith to Everyone: 12:53 PM
Food resiliency - what you are doing is taking for granted internet and technical knowledge. This current crisis means we need to depend on this because we cannot meet. Our next crisis may be different - where we lose this. How is this going to lead to resiliency that is not dependent on the internet etc.
Two things: 1. Self obviating systems -- technical infrastructure that helps form community then is no longer needed.
2. Resilient technical infrastructure -- local intranets, mesh networks
Tap into UVM and the extension service there. There was a webinar about online platforms and online ordering platforms.
Follow up:
- Funding for farmer interviews
- How we can go at this speed, what our priorities are (research versus action)