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Regional Partnership for Sustainable Development

About the Local Foods Partnership

The goal of the Northwest Partnership is to connect and enhance resources of the region and the University of Minnesota to develop a sustainable regional community by educating and empowering citizens to explore and act on their ideas.

The goals of this project are to:

  1. Build partnerships with local producers and other advocates of local foods.
  2. Increase the production, marketing and sales of locally grown foods in the region.