
Healthy Community Food Systems is a small nonprofit based in far Southwest Colorado working on local, regional, and national food systems issues. As a partner of the Southwest Marketing Network (SWMN), and as coordinator of the Network, we work throughout the Four Corners states of AZ, CO, NM, UT, and WY with many partners. The SWMN focus is on helping small-scale, alternative, and Native producers and their communities with alternative marketing and community food system development. See the SWMN website for more: http://www.swmarketingnetwork.org/
Mission: To help communities build healthy sustainable food systems through effective systems planning and development.
Need Statement: In many communities there are several innovative projects underway to help rebuild a community food system, but typically they are not fully coordinated, planned in a strategic sequence, nor integrated into a whole-system view of community sustainability. As a result, efficient use of community resources, synergies with other community development projects, and overall sustainability are often compromised.
Goal: To provide communities with whole systems models as well as the strategic planning and implementation tools needed for effective development of healthy sustainable community food systems.