PHOTO: Participants of the Healthy Archuleta Participatory Voting at the Ruby Sisson Library.
Healthy Archuleta Participatory Voting took place last month, and the results are in.
Thank you, Pagosa Springs, for participating.
148 people voted on five proposed projects to increase food security and equity in Archuleta County, and the proposal ranked as the highest priority by the community was ‘Grow More Local Produce’.
1 Grow More Local Produce – 538 Points
2 Community Food & Nutrition Education Program – 489 Points
3 Free Food Mobile Market – 482 Points
4 Design of Local Food Hub – 371 Points
5 Nutrition Security Health Navigator Program – 340 Points
The ‘Grow More Local Produce’ proposal is aimed at supporting increased and sustained local food production in Archuleta County. This program will attempt to increase the number of growers by supporting more growing spaces (backyards, patios, indoor home environments as well as public spaces.) This program will also help support more local farms to both increase production and extend the growing season.
We appreciate your participation and look forward to future participatory processes that invite and welcome the community’s voice into Healthy Archuleta’s decisions.
For questions please contact us at fsfearchuleta@gmail.org or 401-371-3227.
To donate to support the work of Healthy Archuleta dba FSFE-Food Coalition please visit our website.
Rose Chavez is Executive Director for Archuleta Seniors, Inc. and Public Health Consultant at Archuleta Food System/Food Equity Coalition.