Leadership
The Local Food Action Plan Lewiston Auburn is coordinated by the Good Food Council of Lewiston Auburn with support from St. Mary’s Nutrition Center. The Good Food Council of Lewiston-Auburn (GFCLA) was formed in 2012 to create and support improvements to the food system of the Lewiston-Auburn community. The GFCLA vision: that Lewiston-Auburn will become a community with a thriving food system that supports healthy people and neighborhoods and a strong local economy. We envision a community bustling with people sharing good food that is healthy, affordable, and accessible, and that honors the enduring values, rich cultural heritage and diverse needs of our population.
The GFCLA Mission: Through education, advocacy, and community-based decision-making we work to shape a food system where our entire community of Lewiston-Auburn has access to good food.
Leads
Each action has an Action Team to successfully complete and/or significantly advance the work. Action Teams have Leads that convene the team and report progress to the full planning committee. Other organizations serve as Supporters for Action Teams and may be involved actively, consulted, or just kept informed based on their interest, expertise, or overlapping initiatives.
- City of Auburn NATURAL PRODUCTS & AGRICULTURE WORKING GROUP
- Bates College Harward Center for Community Partnerships
- Cooperative Development Institute
- Five Pillars Butchery
- Good Food Council Lewiston Auburn
- Healthy Androscoggin
- Land in Common
- Lewiston Auburn Community Market
- Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
- Lewiston Farmers Market
- Open Heart Farm
- RSC Consulting
- Saint Mary’s Nutrition Center
- Somali Bantu Community Association/Liberation Farms
- The Root Cellar
- Valley View Farm
Supporters
- Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments
- Androsscoggin Land Trust
- Auburn Public Schools
- City of Auburn
- City of Lewiston
- City of Lewiston Economic Development Department
- Good Shepherd Food Bank
- Isuken Cooperative
- Land in Common
- Lewiston Public Schools
- Lewiston Regional Technical Center
- Maine Federation of Farmers Markets
- OK Community Farm
