NEW Food Forum is a New Leaf Foods initiative consisting of food and health businesses and organizations partnering to identify the entities in our working local food system and strengthen the relationships within it.
What We Do
NEW Food Forum is an initiative consisting of food and health businesses and organizations partnering to identify the entities in our working local food system and strengthen the relationships within it. NEW Food Forum organizes the stakeholders across our regional value-chain and strengthens the connections within the food system.
-We identify groups working on local food issues.
-We strengthen relationships among these groups.
-We impact policy related to a regional food system.
-We recognize that we work within a national & global food system.
Local Foods Map
The NEW Food Forum planning team collaboratively developed an interactive food system map in 2024 with UW-Madison Extension Brown County.
Activities
Food System Stakeholder Survey
In early 2021, the NEW Food Forum planning team distributed a Food System Stakeholder Survey to learn more about regional food system values and priority food issues within northeast Wisconsin.
Regional Food Action Planning
NEW Food Forum built a Regional Food Action Plan focused on the top three priority food issues identified in the 2021 Stakeholder Survey: Food Production | Healthy Food Access | Food Sovereignty
NEW Food Forum’s Current Project is to identify parts of the local food system and bring together a food council.
Why Food Systems?
Food is central to the health, well-being and sustainability of our communities and the environment.
Culturally-appropriate, nutritious and affordable food is a human right.
Food systems are a key factor in developing economic resiliency and equity within a community.
Our Regional Food System
A food system is the journey your food takes to get from its source to your plate!
This includes: growing, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal