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points serving St. Anthony Village residents <br />• Local restaurants serving local food. <br />• Rich environment of local food -supporting non-profit organizations. <br />• Local food -focused educational opportunities. <br />• Urban gardening -focused youth training programs. <br />• Strong community support for local food values and activities. <br />Strategy: Get more people involved with a CSA <br />Community -supported agriculture (CSA) is a relatively new socio-economic model of <br />food production, sales, and distribution aimed at both increasing the quality of food <br />and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals - while substantially <br />reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. <br />This will be done by the following steps: <br />• St Anthony Village needs to establish a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of <br />vegetables, flowers, fruits, herbs and even mills or meat products, from farms <br />that are nearby. The City can assist in this effort by coordinating CSA drop off <br />sites in local parks or helping local restaurants and businesses get involved. <br />Residents can look at a variety of Minneapolis resources such as their CSA <br />directory, or they can contact a farm directly and set up a community drop off <br />site. <br />Objective: Educate city residents about sustainable growing methods. <br />Strategy: The City can implement a local foods event on Earth Day focusing <br />on backyard organic gardening. This would include: <br />• Growing foods without using any of the prohibited materials that are listed <br />in the USDA organic standard rules. This includes: synthetic pesticides or <br />fertilizers, fumigants, solid waste from sewage disposal, and genetically <br />modified seeds. <br />• Use integrated pest management systems <br />e Focus on biodiversity as a means for pest and disease control. <br />• Focus on crop rotation, which means yearly rotation of crops that are not in <br />the same family <br />• Use compost to feed the plants instead of using synthetic fertilizer <br />Objective: Start a community garden in your area <br />"A QUICK GUIDE TO FINDING GARDEN SPACE IN MINNEAPOLIS" <br />http: / /-,vww.gardeningmatters.org/sites /default/files/land_sheet_for_hubs.i3df <br />This is a great resource for finding a shared growing space that residents in St. Anthony <br />.Vain thary 16 <br />i la th <br />