Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health is partnering with Libro Credit Union to explore how to stay local. Libro’s financial contribution of $56,800 will be used to support the research project How to Stay Local – Exploring Huron County’s Food Landscape.
In reducing food insecurity and building a vibrant local food economy, Gateway CERH and Libro Credit Union will help raise residents’ awareness towards local food in Huron County, most notably the diversity and accessibility of local food.
This project will consist of two-year study of Huron County’s food landscape that will help bring awareness of local food in Huron County.
The project hopes to, among other things:
-Profile the producers of local foods who are engaged in the marketing and the sale of local foods and determine their motivations for doing so.
-Identify patrons who utilize local food and recognize barriers to accessing local foods; and
-Aim to create a knowledge translation strategy allowing similar projects to be carried out in additional rural areas, and impact policy at the county and/or provincial level to improve food accessibility for vulnerable individuals.
