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"United In Support of Health, Wellness, Food Security, and Nutrition for the Common Good"

 

Our mission

The food system is complex, multidimensional, and integrated. It includes growing food and raising animals, and ends with human food consumption and the use of vegetable and animal waste to replenish the system cycle.  The NLC-FPC will raise the community awareness of all aspects of the food system.

The mission of the NLC-FCP seeks to bring farms, organizations, organized labor, consumers, businesses, and New London County communities together to enhance the environment, improve economic conditions, and enhance the physical and social health of the region.  

Our Vision

Food is at the center of human existence and well-being; and therefore, reflects our deep cultural roots, family practices, personal experiences and preferences, and the impact of sociology, psychology, health, politics, ethics and economic conditions in our individual and collective lives. The New London County Food Policy Council will work to ensure that affordable and nutritious food will be available to all people.

In working to improve the health and wellness, food security, and quality of life for those who live in New London County, the NLC-FPC will:

• Connect with and work to influence and transform the food system; increase and enhance food security and safety in New London County
• Develop a local capacity to develop, study, and promote mission-critical policy in all of its dimensions:  local, regional, state, national, and international; and
• Become an active participant, as appropriate, in larger councils and efforts which have aligned missions.

Council News

Sayles School Goes Topsy Turvy for Tomatoes

https://sites.google.com/site/ostencathy2012/news/Sayles-School-Goes-Topsy-Turvy-for-Tomatoes

posted Jun 11, 2012 9:13 PM by Elect Osten

With the help of a grant from the Department of Agriculture and the hard work of volunteers from the New London County Food Policy Council - a collaborative effort between United Way, Backus Hospital and other healthcare, educational and social services organizations – along withSprague’s Agricultural Commission, First Selectman Cathy Osten was pleased to present 3^rd and 4^th-grade students at Sayles School with their very own tomato plant on Friday, June 1.

Before receiving their new plant, students and educators discussed the importance of making healthy food choices and the need to limit “junk food.”

Osten said she hoped that involving youth in the growing process early would help them understand more about those choices and about where their food really comes from.

As summer homework assignment that was with scrunched up faces and a few cheers, Osten asked students to take care of their tomato plant – a task made easier with brand new Topsy Turvy® Tomato Planters – and said she’d be back in the fall to see how students fared. Students will report on their farming project, sharing pictures and documenting the use of their homegrown fruit. Vegetable?

The youngsters were interested in the summer growing assignment, encouraged by the idea that even something as small as a tomato could help provide food for their family – an idea Osten and local groups are hoping to promote, even as the community garden around the corner from the school starts to grow.

Farmers Markets: Fresh, Tasty and Local

Interested... Here is one of our local farmers markets in New London!

We Accept EBT!  

Spend at least $5 with your EBT card

and receive a $5 coupon!

Come on by…..

Wednesdays	Fridays
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital Montauk Ave 12:00pm-4:00pm	Downtown New London Parade Plaza 10:00am-1:00pm

Fresh fruits and vegetables available to you from local farmers

Feel free to visit their website at http://fog.newlondonfarmersmarket.com/

For printable flyers (Spanish and English) of the farmers markets please click here.

It Takes a Community

Joe and Ellen, AmeriCorps VISTAs serving the New London County Food Policy Council, helped pick up 50 turkeys at the Norwich Shop Rite last Tuesday. These turkeys were generously donated to the Gemma E. Moran United Way Labor Food Center by Dime Bank. An announcement was made mid-November stating that the Food Center would not have enough turkeys—2,300 total were requested by agencies throughout the county—to give to community members in need. Following this announcement, New London County residents, businesses and organizations responded with donations of turkeys, Thanksgiving food items and money. This coming together of community filled the gap and made it possible for the Food Center to distribute over 2,300 complete Thanksgiving meals throughout the county. We are very grateful to be part of this caring and generous community! Tuesday’s turkey pick-up was an opportunity to take pause and remember this.