Fundraiser & Art Advocacy @ Crave Nature Eatery, September 26, 5:30 - 8:00 PM!

Mention “NJ Food Democracy Collaborative” when ordering and 10% of your purchase will be donated to NJFDC on September 26 at Crave Nature Eatery. There will also be an opportunity (for those 18 years of age and older) to draw or carve rubber stamps for a Farm Bill advocacy project. No need to register. Just show up on 9/26, 1891 Brunswick Avenue, Lawrence Twp, NJ.

Bloom & Nourish Fall Mixer at Cream Ridge Winery, October 16, 6:00 - 8:30 PM

The Collaborative Table, 5-Year Anniversary Fundraising Event at Duke Farms, December 10, 2025. Tickets go on sale in September!

Lunch and Learn Series

  • September 23, 2025: Civic Engagement for Better Food Policy Series. Part I: How to Effectively Engage with the State Legislative Process. September 23, 12:00 - 1:30 PM. Register here.

  • June 2025 (two Lunch and Learn events in one month!): Virtual Launch Party for New Root’s Fresh Stop Markets App in Phillipsburg and Atlantic City NJ!

  • June 2025: Overview and discussion of FDC’s new “FMNP Best Practices Guide & Toolkit”. Register here. Download the Guide here.

  • April 2025: 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: FDC Legislative and Policy Priorities & Food System Roadmap Progress Update. March 5, 12 - 1:30 PM. Save the date. Register here.

  • January 2025: NJ State Board of Agriculture & State Agriculture Convention. Happening on January 28, from 1 - 2:30 PM, via Zoom. Register here.

Missed a Lunch and Learn Event? Find the recordings on our YouTube Channel.

State-wide 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.

https://www.youtube.com/@njfooddemocracycollaborati888

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.

    https://forms.gle/swpbw5Z6g8CUum2z5

  • 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.