D. Discussion Items
1. Local market development
Anna Landmark has the vegetable processing facility study documents done for
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the public. Will be posting soon, but she can walk through it at a future meeting if she
isn't on today
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REAP Food Group is planning an institutional buying workshop for April. We'll
likely reach out and invite specific buyers and farmers to the event. Details are limited at
this point, but again likely at the end of April.
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soon.
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Movement with infrastructure and the terminal market/warehouse. More to share
USDA contracts (Via Marbleseed) have gone out to have farmers growing for
emergency food system. Lots of small growers got contracts - about 140 or 150
growers, and at 80 or 90% of them are underserved farmers
2. Land for cultivation- waiting on Sift Consulting report for a latest assessment of the
landscape of local agricultural opportunities
3. City Farmland Preservation Task Force - Extended deadline for report to June 30th,
which will allow the group to still be in session and constituted to respond to feedback
from the common council after submission in early May. Deadline of March 31st for
reports from each subgroup of this task force, after which a writing team, including
Allison Volk, Marcia Caton Campbell, Rebecca Kemble, and Nan Fey, will compile the
final report.
4. City of Madison chicken ordinance: Leg File #75678:
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Planning a recommendation to concur with the plan commission’s
recommendation of 8 max hens, no roosters
Note from Plan Commissions’ public comments that new young non-laying
chickens are needed to maintain a productive flock.
Question of where all the dead chickens will go eventually? There needs to be
some kind of place for them to go.
Recommendation will be written by LEETE and reviewed by TESCH and sent to
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all alders before March 21st.
5. Work Group structure - TESCH-thinking that due to staff burden on the county side
due to in-person requirements , RAFS become a community group, posted on the Dane
County Food coalition’s website, with Rooted hosting the zoom. FEY - no actual
requirement of staffing from the city for a working group to be consistently staffed.
6. Additional projects/suggestions
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NRCS and Urban Ag grants. Where does this fit within the Madison
organizational landscape? CORNELIUS recommends shared equipment and tools,
which he has already started with a no-till grain drill
E. Announcements
F. Future Meeting Items and Dates
G. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law
H. Adjourn
A motion was made by LEETE, seconded by FEY, that the Meeting be adjourned.
The motion carried unanimously 3-0.
