Brooklyn Grange, a 1-acre rooftop garden within New York City.
A community’s planning and economic development office is a critical resource for these discussions, but is sometimes overlooked by local food and farm advocates as a valuable partner in planning a community food system and addressing pressing community issues like food access and food insecurity. The American Planning Association (APA) recently outlined why planners need to be involved and what outcomes can be achieved through sound community food system planning.
Facilitate the reduction of solid food-related waste and develop a reuse, recovery, recycling, and disposal system for food waste and related packaging.
Additionally, the APA recently released an extensive report on planning for food access and community-based food systems. Therefore, more community planners are becoming engaged in discussions around food and farming and aware of the critical importance food system planning has for present and future needs. Community planners should not be overlooked, but be enlisted by those working on local food and farm issues as a key partner.
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