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New Brighton Climate Action Plan 6 -3 CAP ACTIONS Strategy Action Local Food and Agriculture LF 1: Increase production of local food, particularly serving low income and food insecure individuals. LF 1- 1 Consider policy changes to increase local food production relating to urban agriculture and food pro- duction activities including front yard and rooftop vegetable gardens, community gardens, urban farms, beekeeping, and poultry keeping. LF 1- 2 Establish a communication system whereby local gardeners could trade food (i.e. if one person has too many tomatoes, could offer them to trade or for free pick up). LF 1- 3 Work with community organizations, neighborhood groups, and public libraries to organize a garden- tool lending program and garden bounty exchange program, including canning/preservation tools. LF 1- 4 Partner with schools, private companies and other organizations to create sustainable gardening pro- grams at public and private schools and businesses at locations that to serve youth, immigrant, and people with lower incomes or who are experiencing food insecurity. Promote local food production through these partnerships, funding, and educational programs. LF 1- 5 Collaborate with partners to provide educational resources such as featuring fllms, "fact sheets" and educational content. Use these partnerships to create fleld trips for students and others to visit farms and urban agriculture sites to see food production, meet farmers and animals and promote con- sideration of farming and local food production as a career. Communications, events, and fleld trips to prioritize racial/cultural diversity among participants. LF 1- 6 Offer low price compost bins similar to rain barrels the County currently offers; potentially work with businesses as well and city could then sell or give compost to residents. LF 1- 7 Analyze existing Municipality purchasing and procurement policies and explore creating a policy pre- ferring purchasing foods grown, or from , local establishments. LF 1- 8 Incentivize and reward soil best management practice for urban lawns, gardens, landscaping, parks, open spaces, prairies, environmentally sensitive areas, and agricultural land uses. LF 1- 9 Support existing school and community gardens and provide opportunities to expand community growing spaces with a focus on locating garden infrastructure to serve youth, immigrant, and people with lower incomes or who are experiencing food insecurity. Community growing and garden spaces may include use of park space, unused city owned space, etc. Program should prioritize conversion of impervious spaces to garden space and preservation/increase of overall green space beneflt. Provide on-going promotion, communication, and education of the sites and opportunities including appropri- ate translated and accessible content. LF 1- 10 Establish incentives for local hydroponic growers, particularly those serving vulnerable or low income community members and using renewable energy to power their facilities, in the form of free or re- duced water. LF 1- 11 Allow community gardens or urban farms on vacant land in all zoning districts, except industrial, to increase the availability of locally produced food for all residents.