What is the role that healthcare can/should

play as a partner in the work to build

healthy food systems?
1. Short Term Opportunity: connect community with tools/info to notify legislators of pieces
they want to see concerning health policy

2. Long Term Opportunity: health marketing campaign using tech (ie app)

3. Long Term Opportunity: overall health system board to educate public, connect resources,
and create partnerships

4. Intermediate Opportunity: Education of healthcare professionals/medical students on role of

nutrition and local producers (ie via Farmers market/store tours, day with dietician)

5. Intermediate Term Opportunity: Introducing locally grown food into schools (ie in cafeteria,
farmers market)

6. Intermediate Term Opportunity: Introducing locally grown food into hospitals (ie farmers
market) & patients lives (ie food pantry access, healthy food prescription)

7. Long Term Opportunity: Lobbyist for fresh/local producers

8. Long Term Opportunity: Community outreach program for educators (cooking skills, mobile
outreach, knife skills)

9. Short Term Opportunity: Research showing benefits of healthy lifestyle

10. Long Term Opportunity: incentivize/rewards doctors for promoting healthy choices
 What can we do to get more people
growing and consuming healthy food
locally?
1. Opportunity: Community education/ demonstration classes. (intermediate)

2. Opportunity: Increasing availability. (intermediate)

3. Opportunity: improved methods of transportation (long term)

4. Opportunity: technology to bridge gap between farmers and where their

produce is going with an app. (long term)

5. Opportunity: land access for people who want to farm, mentoring, and training
(long term)

6. Opportunity: School gardening as part of a curriculum prek-12 (short term)

7. Opportunity: flat out funding for growers. Add responsibilities to growers to

teach those willing to learn. (long term)

8. Opportunity: Scholarships for agriculture, culinary, and nutrition programs.

(short term)

9. Opportunity: increase marketing (short term)

10. Opportunity: Summer feeding programs (intermediate)

 What support do we need from policy
makers, economic development
professionals, and institutional leaders?
1. Opportunity: Educate about what you can do through nonprofit lobbying, advocacy, and citizen education.
How to access reps and create opportunities to facilitate better understanding. (long term)

2. Opportunity: Plan for alignment, opportunity and implementation get out and do stuff! (intermediate)

3. Opportunity: Policy shift to recognize internet access as a human right with policy change to mandate
internet providers offer services throughout entire country. Recognize the difficulty of getting into and out of
rural areas. (long term)

4. Opportunity: Economic incentives for supermarkets to sale local foods and to help cover losses.
(intermediate)

5. Opportunity: Provide public forum for collective impact. (short term)

6. Opportunity: Address issues as multifaceted issues, not just economic development, nutrition, etc.. (short
term)

7. Opportunity: Team partnerships include everyone who is essential to move the conversation forward.
Reach out to professionals who are open-minded to diverse ideas. (Short term)

8. Opportunity: Keep policy makers in the know, the time is now to talk about relevant issues. (short term)

9. Opportunity: State of TN support of organic certification (intermediate)

10. Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness for graduates going into farming. (long term)
Working Groups Get Involved!
Food Access
Workforce Development
Food Production, Marketing, and Distribution
Food and Health Systems
Policy & Economic Development

*For more information or to join a working group, please complete the working group interest
card on your table, fold it, and put it in the mason jar on your table.