To implement the Milk with Dignity Program in Ben & Jerry’s supply chain, providing higher milk prices to 10 percent of the state’s dairy farms and raising wages, improving labor standards, and ensuring dignified housing conditions for approximately 300 dairy…
To increase the amount of Vermont-produced food entering the institutional market via distribution businesses and to achieve financial viability for its food hub.
To support immigrant farmers in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, with technical assistance to access farmland and then sell their products into wholesale markets, including institutions, as well as directly to consumers.
To help Maine farmers scale up to access and serve wholesale markets.
To increase the amount of local food being purchased by health care facilities in New England.
To continue the Harvest of the Month promotion program, and to analyze the effect of program participation on institutional purchases of local food.
To increase source-identified local food sales to institutions by identifying and overcoming logistical, technological, and market barriers via a pilot partnership among four small-scale food hubs surrounding Brattleboro, Vermont.
To build on current institutional sales, seek out new accounts, and begin to develop a “cross dock” distribution model that has the capacity to combine the benefits of direct delivery with the efficiencies of broadline distribution.
To facilitate local food purchases at hospitals, retailers, and other large customers through lending and financial training programs.
To develop a systemic strategy and action plan for the New Hampshire Food Alliance Viability Initiative.