Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Planning Meeting

Research Services Bldg. Room 130

OARDC Wooster Campus

Work is progressing to develop an ODA approved mobile poultry processing unit. A large working group has met several times to brainstorm how a mobile unit and management system could be implemented. We toured the mobile unit that has just been built in Galion, Ohio, that will be shipped to the state of Vermont.

Below are the minutes from the August meeting of the Ohio Food Policy Council's Market Connections Task Force

The meeting minutes for the Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council's Market Connections task force are attached. Please feel free to review this information and to share your ideas and suggestions with the group. The minutes include three recommendations that the were presented to the full Council. These recommendations have been approved and will be presented to the Governor's office.

Sincerely,

Amalie Lipstreu

Attached are the meeting minutes for the Ohio Food Policy Council Agricultural Viability Task Force.

These are posted to the Ohio Local Food Systems Collaborative site so the public can view the workings and progress of the task force. If you have any ideas or resources that may assist this task force in its work or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact Amalie Lipstreu, 614.466.6198

Please take a look at the attached brochure describing the Market Maker program. This is an important new way for producers to connect to markets in Ohio. Bring any questions or thoughts to the meeting on July 21st.

Amalie

The Market Connections Task Force of the Ohio Food Policy Council will be meeting from 1-3:00 on July 21st, at the North Market in Columbus. This is part of the ongoing work to connect producers and consumers in local food systems and assist producers in marketing their products.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Amalie Lipstreu, Senior Program Manager for Sustainable Agriculture at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, 614.46.6198.

See the news link from the Cleveland Plain Dealer below for details of a national chain restaurant committment to local purchasing.

http://blog.cleveland.com/business/2008/06/chipotle_to_begin_buying_ohiog.html

Amalie Lipstreu

Please use the link below to indicate your availability for the farm to market task force meeting. If you are able to host a meeting space or phone conference- please let us know as well!

http://www.doodle.ch/ndxaie5x9 zd6h4vz

Thank you,

Amalie Lipstreu

Working groups for the Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council Task Forces have been set up and you are subscribed to one or more of them. You'll need to login and then select the task force under the groups or Your Groups menu to post messages to the members of this task force. The description of the task force mission was from the draft and will be updated based on today's meeting. If you have been subscribed to a task force in error or wish to join another task force please let me know