Welcome

OUR MISSION

To design a resilient food system that meets the needs and values of all by engaging the community’s power.

OUR VISION

To be an urban food sovereign community.

OUR VALUES

Nutrition Equity

Economic Engine

Community-led, People First

Green Community

Collaboration

Innovation

OUR ROLE

Ensure that all residents of Norfolk are able to have proximate, affordable, and available food

Engage with residents representing all areas of need

Gather feedback from the community, with a focus on Norfolk’s most at-risk communities, to determine needs as well as desires for solutions

Make food system resources, funding, educational, and support opportunities known and available to broader community

Strengthen and connect existing efforts

Create communication channels that allow grassroot, action-oriented, community organizations, businesses, and the City of Norfolk staff to improve their efforts

Serve as a platform for citizens of Norfolk to voice concerns, needs, and priorities around topics of food, as well as voice desires for solutions

Work to address the food needs identified by citizens and those working in areas of the food system

Facilitate community engaged research

Identify policy opportunities around food, and recommend to the City of Norfolk

Foster open dialogue and feedback from citizens through community events, social media outlets, and relationship building

WHO WE ARE

We are a collective of individuals from the City of Norfolk that have come together to help increase food access for the citizens in the city. We are focused on the places that lack the most and expanding out to make sure we are the most proactive and effective with our efforts. We are made up of community members, organizations and businesses that see a problem and want to work together to solve it.