[SustainableTompkins] Food preservation center

[Allison L H Jack]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the wrap up of the discussion Ryan, it's great to see what's 
been discussed in one place.

The NY State Food Policy Council has targeted regional food processing 
facilities as an important part of food self-sufficiency in the state. I 
attended and testified (as a representative of NWAEG at Cornell) at the 
Binghamton listening session this spring and most of the groups testifying 
mentioned regional food processing as a top priority. The executive 
director of the Food Bank Association of NY State, John Evers, expressed a 
strong personal commitment to making this happen and talked about creating 
a pilot food processing facility in conjunction with one of the main food 
banks in the state.

I'm mentioning this because there is a possibility of logistical and/or 
financial support from the state if Ithaca's initiative can be pitched as 
part of this larger state-wide project.

http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/ Information on the listening sessions is 
under the "what's new" tab.
http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/foodpolicycouncil.html

The coordinator for the Food Policy Council is Ann McMahon 
<mailto:ann.mcmahon at agmkt.state.ny.us>ann.mcmahon at agmkt.state.ny.us.

-Allison

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Allison L H Jack
Graduate Student
Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
http://pppmb.cals.cornell.edu
Cornell University
335 Plant Science
Ithaca, NY 14850
607.273.5762
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