We have organizations that support the local food movement highlighted in the states where they volunteer one hour per month to act as state admin. Would http://localfoodsystems.org like the honor of Ohio?
In Butler County we are developing a mobile farmers market with a strong focus on nutrition and horticulture education. The name of the project is Produce on Wheels for Eating Right (POWER). I have attached the vision, mission, and goals.
Sharing something near and dear to my research interests, hoping to tackle problems like this in the near future. Thought I would share in case you haven't seen this.
Is anybody working on a GIS data model for local food systems? In other words, a list of the features and feature attributes that would be useful in a map of the system. For example, you would have farms, farmer markets, grocery stores, distributors, processors, institutions, etc. A draft list of features is attached.
Also, I'm wondering about using open source mapping, or 'crowd sourcing', of the data.
The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) Sustainable Agriculture Team and Agroecosystems Management Program (AMP) are offering interdisciplinary grants to promote on-farm research in sustainable agriculture. This program is made available through the Paul C. and Edna H. Warner Endowment Fund established specifically for on-farm research in sustainable agriculture related to crop (agronomic and horticultural) and animal production systems that are intended for human consumption.