State of the Food System Summits & Other Convenings
State of the Food System Summits
From 2021 through 2024, NJFDC convened an annual State of the Food System Summit. You can learn more and view recordings of some of the sessions on our YouTube Channel.
Upcoming Meetings & Events
Bloom & Nourish Fall Mixer at Cream Ridge Winery, October 16
The Collaborative Table 5-Year Anniversary Fundraiser at Duke Farms, December 10
Lunch and Learns
Missed a Lunch and Learn Event? Find the recordings on our YouTube Channel.
September 2025 Topic: Food Citizen Civic Engagement for Better Food Policy Series. Part I: How to Effectively Engage with the State Legislative Process, Details and registration link coming soon!
June 2025 (two Lunch and Learn events in one month1): Virtual Launch Party for New Root’s Fresh Stop Markets App in Phillipsburg and Atlantic City NJ!
June 2025 Topic: Overview and discussion of FDC’s new “FMNP Best Practices Guide & Toolkit”. Register here. Download the Guide here.
April 2025 Topic: Urban Agriculture Zoning and Local Ordinances, with Liz Turner, Vermont Law Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, and Tobias Fox, Newark Science and Sustainability. Register here.
March 2025 Topic: FDC Legislative and Policy Priorities & Food System Roadmap Progress Update. March 5, 12 - 1:30 PM. Save the date. Register here.
January 2025 Topic: NJ State Board of Agriculture & State Agriculture Convention. Happening on January 28, from 1 - 2:30 PM, via Zoom. Register here.
Monthly “Food Democracy Coaching Drop-In Sessions”. Sign up required. Click here for more information. Takes place on Zoom.
2024-25 Regional Food System Summits
Hosted by Rutgers University Agricultural Experiment Station, NJ Food Democracy Collaborative, and the Pinelands Preservation Alliance
Notes from the Regional Summits are being compiled, and will be shared with attendees of each summit, and with the public later this year. Stay tuned for details.
-
Summaries and themes from three summits across NJ, available as a tool for food system planning now. Download here.
-
To better understand how the Regional Fact Sheets were developed, download the supplemental reading here.
Have something to add or an error to correct on the Fact Sheets? Use this link below to tell us about it.
-
Duke Farms, Doris Duke Foundation
NJ Department of Agriculture
The Common Market
NJ Food Security Initiative
Ocean First Bank
NOFA-NJ
Rolling Harvest Food Rescue
Foodshed Alliance
BIFU
NJ Agricultural Society
-
-
-
Past Events
-
NJ Food Hubs and Farmer Cooperatives
March 2024
For NJ farmers, this was an opportunity to meet and learn from representatives from several different types of food aggregators in the state and learn about wholesaling in this fashion.
-
CARAT Information Session
April 2024
To learn about a tool that can be used by communities to assess and understand community and agricultural resilience. Hosted with the North American Food Systems Network.
-
2024 Annual Public Meeting
June 2024 via Zoom covering NJFDC’s activities, goals, and priorities.