Forums are held to increase communication and collaboration across the food system, and to connect our richly diverse community organizations together to discuss important topics and strengthen our local food system.

Forum Reports

2020 Spring Online Meetup: Mural Notes | Mural Screenshots | Chat Notes

2019 Fall Forum Report: Food Processing in Our Region: History, Trends, and Upcoming Innovations

2019 Spring Forum Report: Eating for the Future: Having Our Local Food & Eating it Too!

2018 Fall Forum Report: The People That Make The Food System Work   Or Watch the Videos

2018 Spring Forum Report: Whatcom’s Fishing Sector & Labor and Innovation in our Fisheries

2017 Fall Forum Report: The State of Farmland in Whatcom County & the 2017 Community Food Assesment

2017 Spring Forum Report: The Whatcom County Dairy Industry & Food System Planning

2016 Fall Forum Report: Values-Based Purchasing & Toward Zero Food Waste

2016 Spring Forum Report: Food Policy Councils & Whatcom Farm to School

2015 Fall Forum Report: Benefits, Successes & Challenges of Organizing Food Systems and Food Policy & Incorporating the King County Food Initiative