Increasing Food Access and
Reducing Hunger Starts in the Community
At Route 1, we believe that increasing diversity and equity in our agricultural system is an important key to ending the racial hunger divide.
By creating economic opportunities and supporting innovation for local emerging farmers we can create a more robust and resilient economy – one that also ensures enough healthy, nutritious, and culturally relevant food for all.
Our Mission
To increase food access and decrease the racial hunger divide by:
EMPOWERING
ENCOURAGING
EDUCATING
emerging farmers and farmers of color across Minnesota.
Our Vision
To increase food access in our communities and eradicate, dismantle and disrupt the inequity and lack of representation within the agricultural production, processing, and food delivery system.
Our Beliefs
Driven by the key values of inclusion, integrity, innovation, courage, and community, at Route 1 we believe that—if given the right amount of support and resources—emerging farmers can:
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run profitable farm enterprises
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grow enough healthy, nutritious, and culturally relevant
food to address hunger in the community.
We also believe in the power of food to positively influence health outcomes by ensuring that all communities have access to fresh, regeneratively-grown food sources.
Our work inspires us to introduce youth to regenerative agriculture and educational and career pathways in agricultural production and processing.
