Food

Healthy, affordable food is vital to an equitable and sustainable community. Many activities go on to feed a community - growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, distributing, buying and selling, cooking, eating, disposing of waste.

The City of Seattle has long fostered programs to achieve this goal, such as the P-Patch program, farmer's markets, senior meals, and food waste recycling. Almost every department at the City has been engaged and working together to accomplish many things and do even more as we move forward.

More recently, the Mayor and the City Council have supported several policy efforts to improve the food system, including the passage of a resolution to establish the Local Food Action Initiative in 2008, declaring 2010 the Year of Urban Agriculture, and passing a resolution for the Seattle Farm Bill Principles.

This website pulls together information about existing City services and programs, community resources, and partnerships related to the many aspects of food.

Grow and Eat Urban agriculture, raising chickens, p-patches, community gardening and much more - learn how you can grow and prepare your own food.	Collaborate Food is a complex issue. There are dozens of local organizations committed to the cause.
Healthy Food for All From schools to corner stores, and shelters to community centers, everyone deserves healthy, affordable choices.	Strengthen the Local Economy Processing, packaging, distributing, selling and marketing food are all part of the local economy.
Environment and Waste Food can be grown, sold and disposed of in ways that are better for the environment.	Policies and Plans City policies and plans that accomplish our goals to foster healthy local food in the community.