goal 1			top
To increase individual, public and private-sector participation in a sustainable food system.
	long-term objective
	1-A. Access and resources are provided to all San Francisco residents to grow food, to purchase regionally, sustainably grown food, and to participate in food policy development.
		5-year objective
		1-A-1. A city-wide database of neighborhood-based sustainable agricultural resources has been established and made available to the public.
			action
			1-A-1-a. Create an internship program for volunteers to build a public database of neighborhood-based sustainable agricultural resources.
	long-term
	1-B. San Francisco food-related establishments primarily buy regionally produced, sustainably grown food, when available.
		5-year
		1-B-2. Effective tax and other economic incentive programs for business involvement in sustainable food system activities have been created.
			action
			1-B-2-a. Allow a sustainability tax reduction on sales and property taxes for sustainable practices described by the City’s Department of the Environment.
	long-term
	1-C. 100% of San Francisco schools include a sustainable-food/agricultural curriculum component at every grade level.
		5-year
		1-C-1. 25% of San Francisco schools include sustainable-food/agricultural and nutrition curricula at every grade level.
			actions
			1-C-1-a. Identify existing sustainable food, agriculture and nutrition curricula in San Francisco’s school district. 1-C-1-b. Create San Francisco school district policy that implements a food, agriculture and nutrition curricula teaching about regional, seasonal foods in all schools at every grade level. 1-C-1-c. Ensure ongoing implementation of the curricula by the school district.
	long-term
	1-D. A maximum number of food-related establishments donate excess food
		5-year
		1-D-1. An infrastructure that allows and encourages all food-related establishments to donate excess food to food programs that assist those in need has been established.
			actions
			1-D-1-a. Provide additional support (staff and transportation) to organizations that pick up and distribute excess food. 1-D-1-b. Educate and assist food-related establishments in donating food.

goal 2			top
To establish and coordinate a community-based policy and educational program to achieve a sustainable food system.
	long-term
	2-A. Sustainable food and nutrition policy is implemented and coordinated by the policy council. 2-B. The public is knowledgeable about seasonality of food crops. 2-C. All food in supermarkets is labeled by country of origin.
		5-year
		2-A-1. Establish a regularly-convened food-policy council that promotes public and private solutions to the barriers to and deficiencies of food access for any group of San Franciscans. 2-B-1. The public is less dependent on out of season food crops.
			actions
			2-A-1-a. Conduct periodic assessments of food access. 2-A-1-b. Establish a community education program on food access issues. 2-A-1-c. Examine other municipal policies, actions and expenditures, such as transit routes, taxes, economic loan funds, zoning, housing development, for their impact on food access. 2-A-1-d. Introduce legislation to create a food policy campaign to promote seasonal flavors at farmers’ markets. 2-A-1-e. Use seasonally available produce at food-related institutions. 2-A-1-f. Explore incentives for growers to sell seasonal foods locally. 2-a-1-g. Grant permits for produce street-brokers to sell produce at locations in addition to farmers’ markets.

goal 3			top
To ensure access by all people at all times to enough nutritious, affordable, safe and culturally diverse food for an active, healthy life.
	long-term
	3-A. Safe, convenient, reliable and nonpolluting transportation is available to points of sale that provide nutritious, affordable, safe and culturally diverse food.
		5-year
		3-A-1. Transportation to points of sale that provide nutritious, affordable, safe and culturally diverse food has improved.
			actions
			3-A-1-a. Establish better and more fixed-route Muni service to enable shopping to be done with public transportation. 3-A-1-b. Improve Muni and special transit services to enable people with particular transit needs to shop using public transportation. 3-A-1-c. Create paratransit systems for shopping by using: Idle commuter vans; Vans owned by social service agencies; and Supermarket-funded paratransit and shopper shuttles.
	long-term
	3-B. Food markets are distributed within the City appropriately to the needs of residents.
		5-year
		3-B-1. The number of food markets located in neighborhoods of the City (where market analysis indicates feasibility) where there is a dearth of nutritious, affordable and safe food has increased.
			actions
			3-B-1-a. Increase community-based participation in the design and operation of food markets by creating a community development corporation or similar entity. 3-B-1-b. Explore mini-food markets in certain districts of the city; develop various market models of providing food.
	long-term
	3-C. All corner stores carry a wide variety of nutritious, affordable and safe food.
		5-year
		3-C-1. 10% of corner stores provide an adequate level of nutritious, affordable and safe food.
			action
			3-C-1-a. Create a system for distribution of wholesale nutritious, affordable and safe food to corner stores which provides financing for inventory, capital items and technical assistance.
	long-term
	3-D. Programs like Self-Help and Resource Exchange (SHARE), a national food-buying cooperative (in which participants who perform two hours of community service per month receive groceries each month worth approximately twice as much as the participants pay), are easily accessible.
		5-year
		3-D-1. A SHARE-type program is operating and serving 1,000 San Francisco households.
			action
			3-D-1-a. Inform all San Francisco neighborhoods about SHARE and similar programs on a “Share Day.”
	long-term
	3-E. Consumer food co-ops are operating in every neighborhood.
		5-year
		3-E-1. Two consumer food co-ops are operating in two San Francisco neighborhoods with the highest need.
			action
			3-E-1-a. Secure community development funds for consumer food co-op development.
	long-term
	3-F. Federal food programs, including Food Stamps, School Lunch and Breakfast, Child Care Food, Summer Food, and the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), are fully utilized. 3-G Organic growers provide direct farm-to-buyer service for 15% of produce buyers.
		5-year
		3-F-1 Participation in Food Stamps, the School Breakfast Program and the Summer Food Program has increased by 25%. 3-G-1 Organic growers provide direct farm-to-buyer service for 5% of produce buyers.
			actions
			3-F-1-a. Conduct effective outreach and promotion for the federal food programs. 3-F-1-b. Teach eligibility workers in other public and private benefits programs serving low-income people about the federal food programs and how to enroll their clients in them. 3-F-1-c. Open and operate offices at convenient locations across the city where applicants can enroll. 3-F-1-d. Promote the use of volunteers to solicit and counsel applicants for the programs. 3-F-1-e. Speed up the processing of applications. 3-F-1-f. Promote organic delivery services. For example, use posters at all farmers’ markets and advertise in phone books.

goal 4			top
To create, support and promote regional sustainable agriculture.
	long-term
	4-A. There are farmers’ or gardeners’ markets in every neighborhood.
		5-year
		4-A-1. Three additional certified farmers’ markets have been established in locations close to San Francisco residential neighborhoods. The markets enjoy greater participation from local small farmers and gardeners.
			actions
			4-A-1-a. Through existing venues, such as conferences, encourage more farmers to sell as mobile produce vendors at farmers’ markets. 4-A-1-b. Develop workshops for career counselors about the field of organic farming; promote organic farming as a career choice at career fairs, seminars and farmers’ markets. 4-A-1-c. Organize field trips for students to regional and organic farms. 4-A-1-d. Assist land trusts and encourage the local, state and federal governments to set aside agricultural land close to urban fringes. 4-A-1-e. Create exciting and attractive farmers’ markets. 4-A-1-f. Educate food stamp users to shop at farmers’ markets. 4-A-1-g. Ensure that farmers markets accept food stamps.
	long-term
	4-B. Produce purchased by government, institutions, schools, restaurants, and all food-related establishments is all organically grown: 50% regionally produced, and At least 45% from other California sources.
		5-year
		4-B-1. Produce purchased by government, institutions, schools, restaurants, and all food-related establishments is increasingly regionally, sustainably grown: 25% from Bay Area sources, and At least 70% from other California sources.
			actions
			4-B-1-a. Educate cooking students (future chefs) about organic, regionally produced foods. 4-B-1-b. Establish internships in programs assisting the needy to teach cooking with regionally grown foods. 4-B-1-c. Change purchasing policies of public institutions to prioritize buying regionally and organically grown foods. 4-B-1-d. Provide restaurants with information to promote the use of regionally grown, organic food. (Suggested for food marketers)
	long-term
	4-C. Community Supported Agriculture programs operate in every neighborhood. 4-C. All San Francisco residents know about local and regional food production and purchase regionally-grown food.
		5-year
		4-C-1. The level of San Francisco-resident participation in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs has doubled.
			action
			4-C-1-a. Establish a CSA San Francisco (modeled after CSA West) to help establish links between Community Supported Agriculture farms and San Francisco residents.

goal 5			top
To maximize food and agricultural production within the City itself.
	long-term
	5-A. Community and rooftop gardens exist in every neighborhood and business district, allowing sufficient access for all residents.
		5-year
		5-A-1. The number of community, school and residential edible-garden training projects has doubled.
			actions
			5-A-1-a. Develop a collaborative school gardening program between the school district and non-profit organizations and/or volunteers who provide training and on-going supervision. 5-A-1-b. Establish demonstration farms on available land in San Francisco, such as Treasure Island, the Presidio, and any other public land (with sensitivity to the needs of native plants and wildlife).
	long-term
	5-B. All new publicly-funded construction has rooftop and/or ground-level gardening space. 5-C. All new private multi-unit residential construction has gardening space.
		5-year
		5-C-1. All new housing projects have a dedicated amount of edible-garden space.
			action
			5-C-1-a. Modify city regulations to require green spaces in housing projects.
	long-term
	5-D. Home food production, including small-animal husbandry, has quadrupled.
		5-year
		5-D-1. Tax and other economic incentives have been established for businesses and home-owners growing food using sustainable practices.
			actions
			5-D-1-a. Update city laws and regulations to allow for small-scale animal production. 5-D-1-b. Sponsor programs to promote home food production. (Suggested for commercial garden centers)
	long-term
	5-E. City orchards and backyard fruit trees produce a significant proportion of fruit for the City’s consumption.
		5-year
		5-E-1. Two city orchards and backyard fruit trees produce fruit for the City’s consumption.
			actions
			5-E-1-a. Initiate a “fruit-tree in every yard” campaign for San Francisco backyards. 5-E-1-b. Initiate a city orchard program with non-profit organizations and schools, which will include the use of appropriate space in public parks and other public land.
	long-term
	5-F. City bee hives produce 5% of the honey consumed in San Francisco.
		5-year
		5-F-1. The amount of honey consumed that is produced in SF is doubled.
			actions
			5-F-1-a. Identify appropriate locations and promote beekeeping in large parks and public open-space areas, including San Francisco watershed lands. 5-F-1-b. Ensure greater populations of pollinators by planting appropriate larvae food vegetation where possible and in harmony with the needs of natural areas (in home gardens, public parks, public land).
	long-term
	5-G. All vacant land has become utilized for appropriate ecological purposes, including food production, wildlife and native plant habitat, or Christmas- tree or other forestry products farms.
		5-year
		5-G-1. 50% of all vacant land not appropriate for biodiversity refuge has become utilized for productive purposes.
			actions
			5-G-1-a. Identify and make available for edible gardens appropriate vacant space (temporary or permanent). 5-G-1-b. Identify and catalogue all public vacant properties for ecological purposes, including greenhouse and food producing activities. 5-G-1-c. Donate vacant land to non-profit organizations for gardening projects. (Suggested for corporations) 5-G-1-d. Amend the City Charter to allow for the discounted sale of unused or other city properties to non-profit organizations for community-based food-related projects.
	long-term
	5-H. Dynamic public/private partnerships are operating to maintain all public land areas dedicated to food production.
		5-year
		5-H-1. Dynamic public/private partnerships to maintain those public land areas dedicated to food production have been created.
			actions
			5-H-1-a. Introduce fish and other aqua-culture projects; establish a harvesting program. 5-H-1-b. Identify appropriate crops, such as apples, for city-wide production quotas. 5-H-1-c. Establish a master gardener and home economist food and agriculture program in San Francisco. 5-H-1-d. Establish a Cooperative Extension Office for County of San Francisco.

goal 6			top
To recycle all organic residuals, eliminate chemical use in agriculture and landscaping and use sustainable practices that enhance natural biological systems throughout the City.
	long-term
	6-A. All agricultural and food organic residuals are composted or recycled, and used as nutrient-value products for soils and agriculture and food production, where appropriate.
		5-year
		6-A-1. 25% of agricultural and food organic residuals are composted or recycled and used as nutrient-value product for agriculture or food production, where appropriate.
			actions
			6-A-1-a. Establish an infrastructure that allows and encourages all residential, commercial and public organic residual producers to recycle their residuals. 6-A-1-b. Establish a city-wide collection program for food and agricultural residuals and process them into compost or other agricultural products. 6-A-1-c. Enact and enforce building code regulations that require food recycling facilities in all San Francisco food-related establishments. 6-A-1-d. Provide city-generated compost and other organic soil amendments to all city schools and community gardens for food production and garden projects (and to general public if supplies are sufficient).
	long-term
	6-B. All agricultural and food production and landscaping only use organic amendments.
		5-year
		6-B-1. All city departments use organic amendments in landscaping projects.
			actions
			6-B-1-a. Evaluate and develop markets for compost and other organic residual products, with a priority of in-city markets. 6-B-1-b. Develop or modify policies, laws and regulations to encourage or require the use of compost and other organic amendments in all public agencies and publicly-financed projects. 6-B-1-c. Develop and implement economic and/or tax incentives for the commercial and residential sectors which recycle food residue and/or use compost and other organic amendments. 6-B-1-d. Create a training program assisting food-related establishments in recycling food residue. 6-B-1-e. Establish a tax incentive for businesses that reduce their waste generation by 50%.
	long-term
	6-C. The use of synthetic chemicals from non-renewable resources has been eliminated and sustainable practices that enhance natural biological systems are used throughout the City.
		5-year
		6-C-1. The use of synthetic chemicals from non-renewable resources has been reduced in all city departments and city- funded projects, substituting sustainable practices that enhance natural biological systems.
			action
			6-C-1-a. Modify policies, laws and regulations to require the reduction of synthetic chemical use.