A recommendation that has a clear, named owner and can be addressed through an Recommendation Action Lists.
Action Lists are a succinct group of recommendations that are expressly assigned to the organization or entity that has the power and ability to address it. The NH Food Alliance has drafts up a list of recommendations to provide to leadership at the organization or entity and presents it to them. Then they will select which recommendations they will work on and how. Organization leadership will report back to NHFA and other leadership part of the Network Leadership Team about their progress, in addition to asking for collaboration and support of their work as needed.
Current Recommendation Action Lists
Below are the Recommendation Action Lists that have been or will be distributed to the organization or entity that has the authority to address the Strategic Plan recommendations on the list. To learn the status or progress on a recommendation on a Recommendation Action Lists, click on the recommendation title below the view the recommendation's page.
| Recommendation | Status | Brief Topic | Type of Action |
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| Expand the statewide food waste ban The ban expansion could incrementally include all wasted food disposal (i.e., the Massachusetts Commercial Food Material Disposal Ban and the Vermont…
Goals & Tags: State/NH, (goal) Local Food Economy |
Not Started | Wasted Food | Policy/Regulation |
| Establish a Food Recovery and Diversion Working Group The working group could be created by replicating the Solid Waste Working Group’s structure. The working group could increase food recovery and…
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Not Started | Wasted Food | Program creation, support, or expansion, Investment/Funding, Policy/Regulation |
| Propose state policy to legally protect gardening on leased land Introduce state legislation that creates built in legal protection for gardening on leased land by default (without extra permission), with…
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Not Started | Home & Community Gardens | Policy/Regulation |
| Stipulate open space land for food production in the Master Planning process In the Land Use section of the Master Planning process, ask towns to allow open space land, i.e. land not currently used or forested, like parks and…
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Not Started | Home & Community Gardens | Policy/Regulation |
| Reserve open space land in conservation subdivisions for food production Encourage town planning boards to require conservation subdivisions to make open space land available for food production.
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Not Started | Home & Community Gardens | Policy/Regulation |
| Pass a policy to support a permanent local food procurement reimbursement program for schools Pass a policy to support a permanent version of the Local Food for Local Schools Purchasing Incentive Pilot Program through the NH Department of…
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In Progress | Food System Literacy, Childhood and School-Age Children | Policy/Regulation |
| Decrease barriers to hiring on-farm help Reducing barriers to hiring on-farm help could be achieved in the following ways: Collaborate with local governments to support zoning changes to…
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Not Started | Fruits & Vegetables | Program creation, support, or expansion, Policy/Regulation |
| Clarify state and local laws, ordinances, and definitions Many New Hampshire agritourism operators and prospective operators have expressed that laws and guidelines could be more clearly articulated (for…
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Not Started | Agritourism | Resource/tool creation, support or expansion, Policy/Regulation |
| Legalize cannabis, with a focus on cannabis-infused beverages Legalizing cannabis would open up a multi-billion dollar market opportunity to New Hampshire farmers and beverage producers, with intentional…
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Not Started | Craft Beverages | Policy/Regulation |
| Allow all craft beverage producers to sell through NH State Liquor Stores Increase market access for New Hampshire craft beverages by allowing all small “NH Grown and Crafted” beverage producers (not just wine and liquor)…
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Not Started | Craft Beverages | Policy/Regulation |
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