Food Security:
The power of collaboration

Getting Started...

Work with your age-friendly, lifelong community core team to create a list of potential community partners:

1. • • Foodbanks/soup kitchens

     • Churches

     • Community centers

     • Municipal office 

     • Community garden organizers

     • Local farmers

     • Small businesses

     • Health care organizations

     • Gardening group/club

A few Ideas to tackle collaboratively

• Reach out to a local farm and propose a discounted farm share for eligible residents in exchange for promoting the farm in your food security guide 

• Work with local farms to start or expand a gleaning program

• Partner with a local restaurant or cafe to host a monthly community event with an invited speaker. The business could provide free coffee and pastries or bagels in exchange for an article promoting the role the business has in the event 

• Recruit volunteers to help existing programs that are willing to expand their services to older residents but who lack capacity 

Are you implementing a program with partners? Tell us about it so we can share your idea here.
Email: lifelong@maine.edu