Peak Oil Task Force Report - City of Bloomington - State of Indiana

Toward Greater Local Food Production
The recommendations which follow are based on these principles:
1) Enlist private sector cooperation;
2) Advocate for local food production and increase access to relevant
information to support food production and processing;
3) Remove or reduce legal, institutional, and cultural barriers to farming within
and around the city, and open institutional markets to local food;
4) Reserve open land for agriculture and make additional land available for food
production;
5) Create and expand local food processing and distribution systems;
6) Organize direct support by the city and other public agencies to address
infrastructure needs for water supply, fertility collection and distribution,
food processing, storage, and marketing; and
7) Create specific forms of support for new farmers, including training, land
access, low‐cost start‐up loans, and property tax abatements or land rent
offsets.
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