Food Access & Food Systems
Everyone deserves access to food that meets their dietary, cultural, and religious needs. Our program works to expand food access for everyone in Adams County.
Changing The Systems, Ending Food Insecurity
Our work centers around improving food systems at every step of the way. That means improving processes, supporting people, and creating better outcomes in getting healthy and affordable food from seed to your plate.
Food Insecurity is Happening In Adams County. Let’s End It Together.
Food insecurity is when people don’t have access to safe, healthy, and affordable food to support basic needs and an active life.
Food Access Initiatives
Explore the work going on right now to provide food to all people in Adams
County.
The Adams County Healthy Farmers Markets open in the summer. This annual event provides food for community members facing food insecurity. Health screenings, recipes and nutrition education, and more will also be available.
Explore how the Healthy Farmers Markets partnership is improving the health of Coloradans. More information about the event can be found on the City of Thornton’s website.
Across the state, communities are coming together to improve how local food systems work. These groups bring together farmers, advocates, government workers, businesses, nonprofits, and more to make food fair and healthy for everyone.
We are working with community members to start this work in Adams County. Stay tuned to see our plan! For questions or to get involved, contact FoodAccess@adcogov.org.
Food system resilience planning means making a plan to help our food supply stay strong and steady, even when bad things happen, like storms, droughts, or other problems. Communities and governments work together to determine what could go wrong, see what parts of the food system might be weak, and develop ways to prevent problems, deal with them when they happen, and recover afterward. This helps make sure everyone can still get the food they need.
We’re working with the Adams County Office of Strategic Partnerships & Resilient Communities on Goal 10.5 of their Long-Term Recovery and Resiliency Strategic Plan: “Collaborate with Public Health to align strategies, resources, and networks to support food resilience initiatives.”