Projects

The Massachusetts legislature is considering many bills in the 2023-24 session that relate to the Massachusetts Local Food Action Plan. This list includes bills that most closely align with goals and recommendations from the Local Food Action Plan.

The Collaborative leads the Campaign for HIP Funding to ensure that the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP), which provides fresh, healthy, local foods for SNAP recipients, receives increased funding to meet demand, operates year-round, and adds new farmers to fill gaps in program coverage.

Farming in Massachusetts faces many challenges from high land costs, to insufficient education and technical assistance resources, to incongruent regulations, to an inadequate labor supply. The Collaborative works to connect agricultural organizations with food system policy and advocacy efforts designed to create a more secure and sustainable local food system.

The Collaborative is facilitating a campaign to ensure that every K-12 public school student in MA has access to high-quality food system education.

The Collaborative is working to organize skill sharing among urban agriculture organizations.

The Ag Equity Network is made up of and led by historically underserved Massachusetts farmers, in addition to the allies, legislators, and organizations that support them. The Network advocates for state public policy that supports fair land access, jobs, education, and other resources that are vital for all farmers to be sustainable in their businesses, […]

Food policy councils operate in many cities, towns and regions throughout Massachusetts with the goal to improve the local food system. The Collaborative supports their work through the Food Policy Councils Network.

The Collaborative is working to reduce food waste in Massachusetts through research, advocacy and network building.

The Collaborative, along with our partners in the five other New England states plus Food Solutions New England, is part of a collaboration to mobilize our networks to impact local and regional food supply chains, and strengthen and grow the New England regional food system Find the full NEFNE report here. Read the Massachusetts state […]

2024 Candidate Questionnaires: The Collaborative sent a questionnaire to all candidates for state representative and senator in contested races that had filed paperwork with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance. Below are the responses we have received. This page will continue to be updated as more responses come in. The Collaborative encourages voters […]