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2 <br />■ Incubator Farm <br />• Community Gardens <br />• Food Council <br />■ Community Based Stakeholders (currently forming) <br />• Agricultural Summit <br />■ Annual Conference <br />• Orangecountyfarms.org <br />■ Web site for finding producers and markets <br />• Ag Preservation Board <br />■ Voluntary Ag Districts <br />• Piedmont Food and Ag Processing Center <br />• Agriculture Economic Developer Position <br />• Growinorange.com <br />■ Economic Development Website <br />"Local" as defined by CEFS <br />• Many different interpretations <br />• CEFS (10% Campaign) "local is a relative concept" <br />• CEFS does not assign a mileage limit <br />• Refers to production & consumption in the same geographic region <br />• Goal is to optimize sourcing of food in that region <br />Considerations: <br />■ Do we want to embrace the CEFS 10% Campaign as it exists (including its definition of <br />"local ") or do we want a program specific to Orange County? <br />■ Do we want to create requirements or offer incentives toward achieving greater sourcing <br />of local foods? <br />■ Can we effectively achieve the goal by collaborative investments (public - private) in a <br />"farm to fork" food system infrastructure which would facilitate local sourcing? <br />Proposed steps to move the 10% Campaign forward are: <br />■ Make the 10% Campaign the first priority of the Orange County Economic Development <br />Plan which is under construction at the Economic Development Office. <br />■ Fund an initial public outreach campaign and ongoing quarterly /seasonal activities to <br />raise public awareness of the 10% initiative. <br />■ Work with County departments to increase local food sourcing and develop and maintain <br />a local producer /provider database (buying guide) for use by County departments in their <br />local sourcing efforts. This buying guide will be continually updated and shared <br />throughout all departments. <br />