Community Food Forums

We invite you to join us at a Poughkeepsie Plenty* Community Food Forum!

A Community Food Forum is a facilitated group process designed to identify community assets and to generate ideas for how we can build on our resources to ensure plenty of nourishing food for all residents. Forums are positive, engaging and fun. And food is provided!

We want to involve the perspectives of as many different organizations, residents and stakeholders as possible. Forums will gather input, generate ideas, and prioritize opportunities for creating change  to ensure that all residents of the City of Poughkeepsie can secure nutritious food.     

The dates, times and Poughkeepsie locations of scheduled forums are:

February 11, 11:00 am - Changepoint Church, Room # 21 - 70 S. Hamilton St.

February 15, 6:00 pm - Beulah Baptist Church, Fellowship Hall - 92 Catharine St.

February 16, 12:00 pm - Family Partnership Center with Nutrition Advisory Council, Cafeteria - 29 N. Hamilton St.

April 20, 12:00 pm - Nubian Directions Youth Forum - 248 Main St.

April 22, 2:00 pm - Jewish Community Center - 110 Grand Ave.

April 26, 5:30 pm - New Hope Community Center - 104 Hudson Ave.

If these date won't work for your schedule stay tuned, as additional forums will be scheduled on an ongoing basis.  If you want to be sure to receive and invitation to upcoming forums, send an email to: PoughkeepsiePlenty@farmproject.org.  

Community Food Forums will culminate in a City-wide action planning forum in 2012 (date TBD) that will involve people from every forum. Starting with the ideas generated at the forums, the City-wide forum will be focused on setting priorities and creating an action plan for how food is sourced and made easily available to all Poughkeepsie residents.

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