Food Connections: Capital Area Community Food Profile

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August 13, 2010

This guide is intended to transform the way we think about food systems - changing the concept of food following a linear path from farm to table (produced on farms, processed in factories, distributed by trucks and purchased by consumers at grocery stores or restaurants), to, instead, viewing the food system as a circle with multiple links and connections with the potential of strengthening our communities.  The Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University believes that everyone – regardless of economic status, ethnicity or political bent; whether economic development professional, farmer, grocery retailer, public health advocate or eater – has a stake in the food system.


This Community Food Profile is intended to give readers a better sense of how producing, processing, distributing, retailing, preparing and eating food influence and interconnect a community’s economic, ecological and social wellbeing.

We hope this sketch of the local food system will stimulate you to consider your relationship to food and how your food purchases affect your community. Use the Profile to better understand how agriculture and food fit into your work and your daily life. When we base our food choices and food-related activities in our community, multiple benefits are possible. Allow the stories in this Profile to suggest new – and perhaps unexpected – partners as you continue to make your community a better place to work and live.

This Profile focuses on the Lansing tri-county area. However, it is our hope that it becomes a model and inspiration to develop similar food system profiles for communities across Michigan.

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To create your own community food profile, use our Guide to Developing a Community Food Profile!

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