Goals of the Local Food Resource Hubs

The Local Food Resource Hubs Network supports residents to grow their own fresh produce,
helping to ensure greater food security and healthy food access.

The Local Food Resource Hubs program aims to:

• Increase food production at a community level
• Increase food preservation
• Influence health behavior change
• Increase horticultural skills
• Learn new leadership skills
• Create a greater connectedness within the community through gardening

Gardening Matters and the Local Food Resource Hubs program will accomplish these goals through:

• Offering discounted seeds and seedlings to Hubs members
• Offering workshops on various gardening topics, for which members receive a discount
• Coordinating a tool-sharing library within each hub
• Coordinating communication within and between the hubs
• Organizing events for gardeners to network and build skills
  • Community Garden Spring Resource Fair
  • Shared Leadership Training
  • Community Garden Day
• Supporting hubs leaders to build internal leadership capacity
• Providing opportunities for community members to build relationships through sharing, collaborating, and engaging in Hubs events

Click here to read how the Local Food Resource Hubs came into existence.

Local Food Resource Hubs is community member inspired, driven, and organized.  The success of the program depends largely on community support and donations of time, money and resources.  

Support the development of Local Food Resource Hub development in your area by making a financial contribution and becoming a hub advocate. Advocates do not receive material resources (seeds and seedlings), but are able to attend hubs classes at the member rate, and will be kept in the loop about up-to-date hubs events and opportunities. Click here to become a Hubs Advocate Today!

Hubs around the country...

 Although Local Food Resource Hubs are specific to the needs and assets of the neighborhoods where they are currently being developed in the Twin Cities,  food hubs are being developed across the nation to engage more people in growing and accessing healthy, local food. Click on the links below to read more about what's going on in other parts of the country.

(Our Hubs program is based on/ was developed with support from Detroit's Garden Resource Collaborative.)

Healthy Food Hubs definition by Wholesome Wave based out of Conneticut