On Tuesday November 8th, 2011 at 6:00 pm Richmond's first Food Policy Council met in the Richmond City Manager's conference room on the 3rd floor of City Hall.

Twenty-two people interested in improving Richmond's Food System came together to begin to form our 1st Food Policy Council. In order to understand the scope of Richmond's food crisis, we began the meeting with introductions, including each participant's top food-related issue facing Richmond.

After creating a hefty list of food issues, we formed breakout groups where each group explored one part of Richmond's Food System: 1) production 2) distribution / raw foods) 3) distribution / prepared foods 4) alternative distribution and emergency food access points. The objective was to list from our collective experience all of the ways Richmond residents could access food, creating a draft base map of Richmond's Food System as it exists today. Hopefully over the next few months this map will develop into well researched tool that incorporates existing data collection efforts and can be used to inform policy initiatives that come out of the Council.


Help us create a thriving Food System in Richmond!
Join us for our next Food Policy Council meeting:



There is so much to improve with our Food System here in Richmond. Let's get together and do the work that needs to be done.

Looking forward to breaking bread with you.
Doria Robinson

All meeting agendas and minutes are posted here on the site in the sidebar. For more information please contact Doria Robinson, 510-778-5886. doria@urbantilth.org.