A five-year local food plan will bring together resources in Clay, Becker, Otter Tail and Wilkin counties to focus on local food systems. Primary goals include increasing local food production, expanding access to healthy food and improving communication about about local food. 'We believe our role is to be connectors and educators because everybody's working in their own silos and they don't know what is out there,' said PartnerSHIP 4 Health manager Jason Bergstrand. 'They don't realize that 40 miles down the road, there's somebody that has some expertise or a resource that they could tap that would make a big difference.

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