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

20. Work toward a year­round regional farmers’ market.
Begin working to realize a regional farmers’ market/food hub that provides year‐
round facilities for covered stall and indoor stall sales by local and regional
producers. Such a market should provide adequate public access and facilities for
receipt and processing of farm‐scale loads of produce, on a scale at least ten times
larger than the present Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market in Showers
Plaza. The regional market should include indoor market space and shop space for
food brokerage, processing, and other related businesses.
Farmer at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market
In the interest of a regional market, the City and community partners should:
Identify an appropriate location;
Seek state support and other funding (private, county, charitable); and
Consider creating a tax‐funding district to channel revenues.
21. Map a strategy to harvest, compost or otherwise process and recycle to soil
100 percent of the city's organic waste.
22. In cooperation with other stakeholders, the City should work toward the
establishment of a local land trust for the banking of farmland and the
acquisition and holding of development rights to preserve open space for
future farm development, and to coordinate a program of placing new farmers
on such land.
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