Our mission is to build a vibrant local food system that provides
affordable, healthy food to all DNATL families.
affordable, healthy food to all DNATL families.
The DNATL Community Food Council is a group of individual residents and agency representatives who are working together to build a local food system that provides healthy, culturally appropriate food to all families in Del Norte and Tribal Lands (DNATL).
Food Council Goals
Increase food security & access to fresh vegetables and fruit
- ○ Food Security Task Force
- ○ Pacific Pantry
- ○ Mobile Pantry
- ○ Food Recovery Program
Increase our local food economy
- ○ Eat Local Guide
- ○ Producer/Food Business trainings
- ○ Connecting producers to local markets
- ○ Purchasing from local producers
- ○ Promotion of local farmers
- Shift eating habits through education & access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods
- ○ Workshops on nutrition, cooking, gardening, food preservation and other topics that increase healthy local food consumption
Grow & sustain a diverse DNATL Community Food Council
Create a comprehensive, region-wide Food System Resiliency Plan centering racial equity & food justice
- ○ Regional Food Hub planning with Humboldt Food Policy Council
What we do
Our organization operates Pacific Pantry, a choice-based food pantry located at the Family Resource Center of the Redwoods. Learn more about the Pacific Pantry.
We partnered with the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation to develop four food forest sites across DNATL. The CFC manages the Crescent City and Klamath Food Forest sites. Learn more about the Food Forest projects.
Since our founding in 2010, we have:
- Organized numerous cooking and gardening workshops
- Created local celebrations of Food Day
- Supported school and community gardens
- Promoted local foods, farmers, and farmers markets
- Facilitated Del Norte’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program funding stream
- Brought Market Match funding to Del Norte’s farmers markets
- Helped to expand Del Norte County Unified School District’s Seamless Summer Meals program
- Provide food security resources and information
- Convening the Del Norte Food Security Taskforce comprised of over a dozen collaborating organizations, meeting regularly to address food insecurity in the County.
- Supporting local fisherman and getting locally caught seafood on the plates of Humboldt and Del Norte County residents through a catch to table grant.
- Designing and carrying-out summer Food and Farm Academy and Camp at the Taa- ‘at-dvn Chee-ne’ Tetlh-tvm’ Food Forest in Crescent City.
- Maintaining the County’s only choice-based food pantry; sourcing locally grown food items; and expanding food bank programing.
- Collaborating with the Office of Emergency Services and partners in Humboldt County to design a resilient regional food system and ensure emergency food preparedness for regional residents.
- Executing a CalRecycle Food Rescue project, currently having recovered and redistributed over 90,000 pounds of food that would otherwise have gone into the landfill.
- Working with the Nature Rights Council and Yurok Food Sovereignty Division Manager to support and further food security and food sovereignty initiatives for the Yurok Tribe.
