What Would Local Food Systems Look Like…?

…if schools, hospitals, daycares, and colleges sourced the bulk of their food needs from local farm? What benefits would that bring to the farming community? How would that impact the health of surrounding communities?

At the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, we’re daring to dream. In 2017, we partnered with Nourish Colorado and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs to learn more about Colorado’s Farm to Institution success stories from Farm to Early Care and K-12, Colleges and Universities, and Hospitals. To share the results of this inquiry, we created this three-video series that can be included into inservice training sessions aimed at food service teams, managers, and procurement specialists, as well as educators who may be interested in pursuing local foods for their institutions.