{"id":1388,"date":"2022-10-10T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2022-10-10T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:18:55","slug":"apply-by-oct-30-to-be-on-new-farm-to-community-food-hubs-program-advisory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/apply-by-oct-30-to-be-on-new-farm-to-community-food-hubs-program-advisory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply by Oct. 30 to be on new Farm to Community Food Hubs Program Advisory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is seeking members for a new advisory committee to support the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cafarmtofork.cdfa.ca.gov\/F2CFHP.html\">Farm to Community Food Hubs Program<\/a>. The 10-member committee will advise the Secretary of Food and Agriculture on education, outreach and technical assistance for the program.<br><br>CDFA is seeking applications for 10 primary members, with three members from Northern California, three members from Central California, three members from Southern California and one member who is a farmer or rancher, selected from any region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Four members must be executives \/ managers of a food supply chain business, including a producer, processor or purchaser, headquartered in California.<\/li><li>Four members must be executives \/ directors of a non-governmental organization or representative of an academic institution, including K-12 schools, with expertise in advancing food system improvements supportive of local food systems, equitable access to healthy food, labor in the food system, or climate-adaptive and climate-resilient food systems.<\/li><li>One member must be a Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education Program representative, housed within the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.<\/li><li>One member must be a farmer or rancher who qualifies as one or more of the following: socially disadvantaged, beginning, limited resource, veteran, disabled, and\/or operates a farm or ranch that is 500 acres or less.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested applicants should complete the Prospective Member Appointment Questionnaire, located on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cafarmtofork.cdfa.ca.gov\/F2CFHP.html\">Farm to Community Food Hubs Program webpage<\/a>. Applicants will indicate the desired member position, obtain a letter of recommendation from a relevant agricultural industry representative and send both documents to CDFA via email to <a href=\"mailto:cafoodhubs@cdfa.ca.gov\">cafoodhubs@cdfa.ca.gov<\/a>. Applications are due by October 30, 2022, for review and consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CDFA\u2019s Farm to Community Food Hub Program was established in the 2020-21 state budget to pilot investments in food aggregation and distribution infrastructure needed to increase purchases of local, environmentally sustainable, climate-smart, and equitably produced food by schools and other institutions; to build a better food system economy; to support the local farming economy; to accelerate climate adaptation and resilience; and to employ food system workers with fair wages and working conditions. The program provides $15 million in one-time funds to administer a grant program that creates or expands community-serving food hubs throughout the state. To learn more about the program, please visit:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cafarmtofork.cdfa.ca.gov\/F2CFHP.html\">https:\/\/cafarmtofork.cdfa.ca.gov\/F2CFHP.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View this original CDFA news release in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/egov\/Press_Releases\/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=22-139\">English <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/egov\/Press_Releases\/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=22-140\">Spanish<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is seeking members for a new advisory committee to support the\u00a0Farm to Community Food Hubs Program. The 10-member committee will advise the Secretary of Food and Agriculture on education, outreach and technical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/apply-by-oct-30-to-be-on-new-farm-to-community-food-hubs-program-advisory-committee\/\"><span class=\"text-nowrap\">Continue reading <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23,326,327],"tags":[328,329],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdfa-inspection-services-division","category-cdfa-f2f","category-farm-to-community-food-hubs-program","category-farm-to-community-food-hubs-program-advisory-committee","tag-california-food-hubs-grant-program","tag-farm-to-community-food-hubs-grant-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdfa.ca.gov\/CDFAInspectionServicesBlog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}