July 13, 2009 - Food

The first topic-specific meeting of the task force was centered around Food (i.e. how to ensure that we have secure food supplies locally in a world with much more expensive and/or less available fossil fuels). Rita deQuercus from the Local Food Coalition and Nevada County Grown gave a presentation to the task force on the present state of local food production in Nevada County, along with recommendations for actions that could be taken to ensure a local food supply. These recommendations will be combined with the task force discussion, and also broken down to determine which actions could be taken specifically by the city as opposed to Nevada County.