Great Basin Food Co-op: Local Food Committee

Great Basin Community Food Cooperative 

Last week I had the chance to sit in on a meeting with volunteers from the Great Basin Community Food Cooperative. The Local Food Committe's goal is to support local farmers. We discussed a variety of new ways that we can do this, one of which I am interested in will be to update and maintain geospatial data on foods growing in Nevada.

The project serves two primary purposes. First, it provides a tool in order to better communicate to consumers the relationships they have with the products they buy, and exposing them to the products available. Secondly, it provides producers with a sort of currency for visibility that will heighten awareness and consideration when consumers make their choices.

I did a little research and came up with a file from the USDA that has a current list of Producers in Nevada, click on the map to find out more info:


View Food Producers in Nevada in a larger map

Potentially, this map will also include all types of data related to local foods including: photos of the farms, gleaning opportunities, school projects, local urban farmers and gardens, restaurants that buy local, and anything else that we can think of related to eating and sustainability.

For more info: http://www.greatbasinfood.coop/