Increase access to nutritious food with mobile markets, improved food nutrition benefit programming, coordinated distribution, and shared storage.

Expand workforce skills with career training for high school students, college, and young farmers. Improve community health with nutrition education and Food is Medicine programs.

Strengthen the local food economy by supporting the development of a shared commercial kitchen with business, marketing, and regulatory guidance.  

Establish governance structures that facilitate clear, inclusive communication to sustain long-term food system collaboration. Coordinate communication for internal project planning  and community engagement.

Reduce barriers to equitable local food procurement with  farmer to buyer contracts, processing facilities, shared cold storage, and a distribution hub.

Develop a community data hub for compiling, sharing, and analyzing food access data for transparency, planning, and decision-making across the Upper Shore and beyond.