Homegrown Minneapolis is an initiative to develop recommendations for the City of Minneapolis to improve sales, distribution and consumption of fresh, locally grown foods to positively impact the health, food security, economy and environment of our City and the surrounding region.
Currently seeking comment on their
strategic plan for the city of Minneapolis.
In my opinion it is a good start but attempts to replicate some current programs that were originally designed to help foster agricultural development, urban and rural. I am thinking of the massive land grant institution right in our backyard, the University of Minnesota. We need to bring new life to University Extension Programs and Master Gardeners and stop re-inventing the wheel with more government programs. University Extension and it's supporting programs have been bleeding for years as policy makers and university executives deem them irrelevant. This flood of interest in urban agriculture is proof in my mind that we need to bring new life to Extension.
