Food Access
King County Farmer’s Market Report
Baltimore’s Food Policy Report – lots of good ideas on how to improve the food environment
Access to Healthy Food in Washington State
Mapping Food Insecurity and Access in Seattle and King County, prepared by King County Acting Food Policy Council.
Benchmarking Access to Food Sources and Physical Activity Facilities, prepared by Urban Form Lab, University of Washington Department of Urban Design and Planning.
Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland, published by Policy Link Center for Health and Place.
Food Environment Atlas, provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food. Data compiled and published by United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service.
Sound Food Report, prepared by City of Seattle Staff and the University of Washington.
Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit, published by the United State Department of Agriculture.
Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the City Center To the Urban Fringe, published by Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC). To view additional Urban Agriculture Publications offered by CFSC, click here.
Delridge Healthy Corner Store Project: A Toolkit for Community Organizers and Storeowners, prepared by University of Washington Department of Urban Design and Planning and the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association.
Farmers Market and Organic Food Finder, produced by the Local Harvest Organization.
Washington State Farmers Market Manual: Guide to Starting and Operating a Farmers Market, published by WSU Small Farms Team.
Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Farm Security (RUAF) maintains a comprehensive library of publications on issues pertaining to global food security and urban farming.
GATHER IT! How to Organize an Urban Fruit Harvest, a step-by-step guide to help communities start their own volunteer-based fruit harvest projects.
Hyperlocavore, a website that matches people in yard sharing arrangements and helps organizations set up yard sharing programs, among other collaborative services.
Rainier Valley Food Action Project: Increasing Access to Fresh Produce, prepared by Katherine Chen, a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow.
Farmer’s Garden, a website where backyard gardeners can search by zip code to buy, sell, trade, or give away their extra produce.
Delivering More: Scaling Up Farm to School Programs - Learn how farm-to-school programs can expand to reach more students.
DNPAO State Program Highlights – Farm-To-Where-You-Are (PDF-220k), Farm-to-where-you-are programs promote the delivery of regionally grown farm produce to community institutions, farmers markets, and individuals.
DNPAO State Program Highlights – Food Policy Councils (PDF-186k) Food Policy Councils, and related food advisory councils or coalitions, support and advise citizens and officials in developing policies and programs to improve regional, state, or local food systems.
DNPAO State Program Highlights – Improving Retail Access for Fruits and Vegetables (PDF-192k) Food can be sold at a variety of retail venues in a community. To increase fruit and vegetable consumption by community members, it is important to improve access to these venues and to increase the availability of high-quality, affordable fruits and vegetables sold at these locations.
SNAP/EBT at Your Farmers Market: Seven Steps to Success – A handbook designed to help farmers’ market managers develop and sustain SNAP/EBT projects at their markets.
