BRUNSWICK — A report from Local Farms-Local Food, a collaboration between the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (KELT) and the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, is now available.

The report summarizes a discussion of more than 60 people, including farmers, food distributors, representatives from local schools, and others about the status of local food in the Bath- Brunswick area.

“We are all up to similar things but tend to work in isolation,” Harpswell farmer Joe Grady said in a press release. “Getting together was a great way to think differently about what we do and how we do it.”

According to that release, the topics discussed at the meeting included the current circumstances of local food, obstacles to improving local food production and distribution, and the potential shortand long-term solutions to the listed barriers.

“We have an excellent start to a vibrant local food system in our region,” said Angela Twitchell, executive director of the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust. “To have many of the major players of that system in the same room was powerful and an effective way to move ideas forward from concept to reality.”

Solutions discussed included the development of a mobile slaughterhouse, increasing farmer and consumer education programs and the growth of local food hubs.

“As a farmer, it was valuable to hear from other participants and what they saw as opportunities and challenges for future development of local food production and distribution,” said Nate Drummond of Six River Farm in Bowdoinham.

For a copy of the roundtable report or for more information about the Local Farms-Local Food collaboration, contact Chris Cabot at chris.btlt.kelt@gmail.com.

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