Crossroads Resource Center

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Consulting Services

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Local Foods

Crossroads Resource Center can help your community fashion a food system that responds to local people and local needs—one that builds health, wealth, connection, and capacity in your community.

We offer a variety of tools for your community to use, developed over nearly four decades of close collaboration with residents of rural and urban communities:

• We assess your local (or state) farm and food economy
• We provide solid data
• We provide state-of-the-art technical information
• We link you to the best resource people
• We consult on business strategy, especially food business clusters
• We advise you on community investment options
• We help you measure success
• We help you evaluate your local foods effort
• We develop creative responses to common challenges

Local Economic Studies

Crossroads Resource Center can do a complete analysis of your local economy; see our Draft Scope of Work. For complete information about our studies of local economies, see our Local Economiespage.

Speaking

Ken Meter is available to speak on many topics, including:

• Finding Food in Farm Country
• Successful Local Foods Networks
• Local Foods as Economic Development
• Food versus Fuel?
• Evaluating Local Foods Initiatives
• Working with Food Systems as Systems
• Planning and Measuring Community Sustainability

and more! —contact Ken and we will tailor something to your needs.