Goal Statement  

• To provide the poorest people in Lorain County with healthy food and the means to provide for themselves in a way that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.

Policy Options / Model Programs   

A. Model Programs

• New Agrarian Center

  • Model Program - City Fresh
• Model Program - Good Neighbor Program

B. Policy Options

• Community Kitchens
• Commmunity Gardens
• Expansion of accessability to CSA's and farmer's markets
• Expansion of Farm to Cafeteria programs

Issue Briefs   issue briefs on this topic at the local, state, national, global level

• Food Deserts - USA

• Food Deserts - Ohio

  • Food Deserts - Lorain County, OH

• Food Deserts - New Jersey

  • Food Deserts - Newark, NJ

Glossary of Terms   key words or phrases that the layperson needs to know to understand this issue 

• Food deserts - large and isolated geographic areas where grocery stores are absent or distant.^[1]

Bibliography    

• More on Lorain County

  • Ecosocial context of Lorain County