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 Consumers are crucial partners in the development of a sustainable agriculture for Louisville.

In this section you will find access to a wide range of consumer organizations, resources, and strategies.

Some of these consumer initiatives include:

Food Cooperatives

Community Supported Agriculture Members

Buy Local, Eat Healthy Campaign

Restaurants

Grocers

Households

Wholesale buyers and distributors

Institutional Buyers

Dietician and health care providers

Buyers clubs

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Fair Trade Consumers

Organic and Whole foods specialty buyers

Buy Local, Eat Healthy Campaigns:

From Andrew Bartlett:

Just some food for thought for discussion online and/or at an upcoming platform meeting:

My guess is that CFA is primarily thinking of farmers initiative.  As
SAL/CFA considers this issue, gives input to the wider CFA, and considers such an initiative in our platform, I wanted to toss in something that just went through my head.

I think there will be increased excitement generated and important potential allies for the initiative if we/CFA consider pulling in the health aspects, and in particular the greater incidence of diet-related  illnesses among (some) low-income populations.  (Of course, the entire country is suffering from our typical diets.)

Part of the outreach for a Buy Local, Eat Healthy campaign could be:

* a series of community conversations on health diet and lifestyle;

 * developing a working coalition of Louisville's health and nutrition providers, food producers and retailers, and low income
communities/groups;

 * adapting diet-related health messages and materials to different  cultural and ethnic characteristics;

* community events and extensive marketing/media.

 Funding, and the collaborations that would help access funding, of course, will be critical.

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