Food Systems & Food-is-Medicine

Hunger, farming, jobs, purchasing and waste are usually handled by separate offices and funded by separate people. We work on the connections between them: where food is grown, who buys it, who gets fed, who gets hired, and what is spent today against what could be spent locally.

Food economy strategy

The policy case and the investment case in one document.

• Food economy frameworksHow a city or region's food spending, jobs and supply fit together.
• Public spending analysisWhere public food dollars go today, contract by contract.
• Policy and investment casesWhat to change, what it costs and who benefits.

Institutional purchasing

Getting local suppliers onto the list of large buyers.

• Buyer requirementsWhat hospitals, universities and contractors need to see from a supplier.
• Supplier readinessInsurance, volume and payment terms a small supplier must meet.
• Procurement pathwaysThe steps in between that neither side builds alone.

Food-is-Medicine

Food and health connected in one working pathway.

• Pathway designWho grows it, who prescribes it, who pays, who delivers it, and what is measured.
• Partner preparationThe plan, numbers and partners a health system would want to see before joining. Clinical decisions stay with clinicians.

Indoor growing and food infrastructure

Year-round growing in buildings a city already has.

• Site assessmentCandidate buildings and what each can grow and sell.
• Four-party assemblyThe building owner, the operator, the buyer and the trainer.
• Production and sales modellingWhat a site produces, who buys it and at what price.