This is the list of ideas that the August 23rd brainstorming session on food and AG for the POTF.

1. Allow fruit and nut trees in public spaces, I.e. parking strips, dividers on streets and highways, in both residential and business areas. 
2. Allow and support adding fruit and nut trees to local landscapes to support solar and shade management.  This can be done for both residential and commercial structures.
3. Find a way to harvest the fruits and nuts for use by people for local use, Oregon Food Bank.
4. Have local phone and/or 800 numbers with a public map for showing the location of fruit and nut trees, which can be harvested by anyone.
5. Include youth groups, church, homeless youth, gleaning organizations, food banks and groups such as Friends of Trees can be informed about when and where to harvest from the trees.
6. This could be a project for Americore.
7. Create a database of those in locals where the fruit and nuts trees are who are willing to harvest from the trees. 
8. Teach and create free or low cost access to preserving techniques and supplies. 
9. What kind of liability issues will need to be addressed?  Look at other communities and what they have done.
10. Develop and support a "second harvest" program at city and county level.
11. Use the current Tri-County Farms paper to inform and market the "second harvest" concept, and harvesting of fruit and nut trees on public property.
12. Use local newspapers to inform, educate and promote the "second harvest," where to get information on preserving, preserving supplies and information, harvesting, access to local community gardens, how to grow food, etc.
13. Ramp up Digable City Project.  This is a project through the Office of Sustainable Development.
14. Subsidize training and technology for rainwater collection for residential and business.
15. Create a discount on winter water bill if it can be documented that water is being diverted from storm drains and water treatment plants.  This should be for residential and business.
16. City needs to set up composting stations around the city where people can bring any kind of organic waste for recycling into products to be back in the community.
17. Subsidize and coordinate soil testing facilities and remediation on a neighborhood scale.
18. Re-establish County Extension Program and Agents and expand the program through grade, middle, high schools and at college level.
19. Teach sustainable gardening and agriculture starting in grade schools throughout city and county.
20. Remove legal barriers to small-scale food production at city and county levels.  This addresses the issue of economic shifting by creating opportunities for small-scale microeconomics.
21. Incorporate into land use planning and management the concept of green space is every thing that shows green on an aerial map.
22. Develop and support move to hemp agriculture to replace loss of timber based products.
23. Create a city wide, nonprofit agency Food Council.  Vancouver BC has an excellent model we could look at.  Purpose of the Food Council is to create and develop policy on food security, distribution, increase number of edible food plots in the city.