The document summarizes presentations from a local foods leadership training event in North Dakota. It includes: 1) Summaries of several local food projects in North Dakota, including the development of a food co-op and efforts to promote local, gluten-free crops. 2) Plans for future events like a cross-pollination tour between local food organizations and a farm-to-school marketing campaign. 3) Feedback from participants who found learning about different local food projects and ideas for funding useful for their own work.

1. Leadership for
Local Foods
Participant Sharing
ND Local Foods Leadership Training
NC SARE Grant
Abby Gold, Megan Myrdal & Glenn Muske
NDSU Extension

2. BISMAN
Community
Food Coop
Tyler & Heidi Demars

3. BISMAN Coop Timeline
• October 2011 - First Meeting
• January 2012 – Visioning Session
• June 2012 - APUC grant awarded to complete
feasibility study
• May 2013 - Feasibility Study Complete
• June 2013 – Member Drive Started
• August 2013 – 2nd APUC grant awarded for
legal services, technical support, and to hire an
outreach coordinator.
• 600 Member-Owners invested as of August
2014

4. Tomato Bombs were dropped around town to
spread the word about the co-op
Young chefs making food
art on
Food Day Oct 24th, 2013

5. Promote Local
Foods through
Harvest Festival
Vaughn Hammond

7. Local Foods Program
for Native Americans
in the Fargo Area
Jaclynn Davis Wallette

8. FarmersShowcaseat Local FoodsEconomic
DevelopmentSummit
Sue Balcom
• We need to support farmers meeting economic developers
and encourage scaling up through economic development
• Summit: April 14 and 15, 2014 – the applications will be
released soon, postcards went out Nov. 25
• Outcomes: To showcase CSAs, farmers markets, food hubs,
aggregation, cooperative models and support the ND local
food system as a tool for economic development in small
communities — and large.
• We hope putting a face on the farmer will encourage more
JDA and Economic Development offices to support projects
such as light processing and food hubs to assist with the
distribution of locally grown and value added agriculture
products.

9. Sustainable Gluten Free Crops in
Central ND
GlenPhilbrick
• Rational: To promote locally grown gluten free foods in
central ND and prove that ND can sustainably grow gluten free
foods.
• How Did it Go? I handed out all recipe cards printed, plus extra
printed at BisMarket. The tour had 20 participants. I had
several discussions with people about gluten free foods such
as quinoa and amaranth.
• Main Outcomes: Most people I have met were not aware
quinoa and amaranth could be grown in ND. Customers were
excited they will have a local option for gluten free grains.
• Future Plans: Upon the cleaning of the quinoa and amaranth,
I will begin marketing them. I plan on hosting at least one
class this winter concerning how to cook gluten free.

12. Cross-Pollination Tour to Farm to
Table Co-op
StephanieBlumhagen
• Farm to Table Co-op in Glendive, Montana is building a local
food system in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota.
• The point of the cross-pollination trip is to take a van-load of
Local Food leaders from eastern and central North Dakota to
see what Farm to Table has accomplished, learn from their
experience and share with them what we’ve learned in our
own efforts to build local food systems. Like the bees that help
our fields and gardens flourish by moving pollen from plant to
plant, we will help local food systems across the region
flourish through the exchange of knowledge and ideas.
• Tour Dates: March 20-21, 2015

13. Keep it Local,Keep it Fresh:ALocal Foods
Initiativefor Eddy Countyand Beyond
RachelBrazil&JillLouters
• Rational: To help build a visible and accessible network of local food
producers and consumers in our community.
• How Did it Go? Still in the works. We have found significant
consumer interest in local food. Identifying potential producer
sources, has been more difficult. We're working toward providing
some beginning resources to "start the conversation."
• Main Outcomes: Facilitated meeting determining the interest of
community members regarding local foods, a Facebook group page
in which we can share and request information, a local food and
agriculture resource collections at the public and school libraries.
• Future Plans: Organize field trips for potential local food producers
to see season extension and pasture grazing practices in action, host
a farm to school training for food producers interested in selling to
the New Rockford- Sheyenne School District.

15. Farm to School Awareness
and Marketing Campaign.
JonathonMoser
• Progress: To be implemented Spring of 2015.
• Main Objective: To increase awareness about Forager
Farm and Jamestown Public School District's
involvement in ND Farm to School. We will be
designing and distributing informational marketing
materials to schools. We will also be hosting on the
farm tours for students from Jamestown Schools.

16. Heart of Dakota Local Foods
Educational Wagon
Irene Graves
Project Name: Heart of Dakota Local Foods Educational Wagon
Rational: To Educate the public about Local Foods
How Did it Go? GREAT
• 182 surveys
• 379 direct contacts
• Handed out over 1,500 publications and information sheets
• Ponies brought in diverse crowd
Main Outcomes:
• There is a great need for education
• Gardeners do not see there foods as commercial item will give it
away but not sell.
• Local Foods – interpreted as a brand name not a locally grown food.
Future Plans:
• Will repeat the process
• More invitations than available weekends – do as many as possible

17. Heartof DakotaLocal FoodsEducationalWagon

18. Extend & Enhance
Farmers Markets
During Off-Season
Hampton & Cynthia
Spencer

19. Morning Joy Farm Kitchen
AnnieCarlson
• Rational: To value-add our farm products and provide consumers
with healthy, whole food ready to eat options
• How Did it Go? Slowly, painfully slowly. But as we come to the
end of the building phase, the marketing phase is taking over.
• Main Outcomes: Be patient. Building anything takes 3 times
longer and cost twice as much as you thought it would. Our
customers are excited for us. But all of them cook so our new
kitchen offerings have meant we need to increase our marketing
contacts to new groups.
• Future Plans: Now we focus on marketing and product
development.
I'm so thankful to have attended the Stockman Grass Farmer
Marketing School. Now I am armed with lots of great marketing
tools and advice.

20. United Tribes
Technical College
Winter Market
Jana Millner

23. Participant Comments from December
2014 Training
GatheredviaSurveyMonkey
• When asked what they felt was the most useful part of the
program, one participant responded: “I liked seeing what
others are doing around the state and how I might use their
ideas to add to my own. It is also very useful to learn where
and how to get funding for projects.”
• When asked what information they plan to use from the
training and how they plan to use it, one participant
responded: “As an Extension Agent, I plan to use the
information from this training to get my own local foods
project going in my county.”
• In response to how they plan to use the training information,
another participant responded that they are “Thinking about
‘education’ in a broader sense and finding ways to share in
creative and meaningful ways.”