Hacking the Food System

Announcements

• Trenton Partners presenting next week
• Post links to your Design Notebooks to Canvas instead of as comments to this blog
• Papers due in 5 weeks, here’s some research material
• A million+ about to lose SNAP

Design Notebooks

Lets take a few minutes to review your food diaries.

Team Assignments

Let’s take a few minutes to group up into our teams.

Discussion

Tiers of the Food System

• Tiers of the Food System: A new way of thinking about local and regional food

Examples of the Tiers

Tier 0: Home & Community Gardens, Home Kitchens

Tier 1: Farmers Markets & CSAs (physical or online)

Tier 2: Food Distributors & Co-ops

Tier 3: National Chains & Distributors

Tier 4: Global Distributors

Exercise

• Break up into your teams.
• Review the Tiers of the Food System graphic we discussed above
• Using your food diaries, try to map your team’s food diary data onto the food tiers
• Can you determine from which tiers most of your team’s food choices came from?

An Interconnected Food System

• The Nourish Food System Map

Assignment

Reading

• Review the Nourish Food System Map
• Review at least 5 articles/videos from Food+Tech Connect’s Innovation section

Design Notebook

• Create a new slide in your Design Notebook and title it “Hacking the Food System”
• Identify the core problem each of the solutions you read about addresses
• Identify where in the Nourish Food System Map each of these solutions fit
• Identify your favorite article/video in theInnovation section and explain why it resonates for you

*Submit the link to your Design Notebook to Canvas