Healthy Foods, Healthy Farms, Healthy Communities Initiative Glacierland RC&D is partnering with a group of local farmers (called SLO-Farms Coop), a local food clearinghouse (Trust Local Foods) and two area hospitals (Bellin and Theda Care) to grow, process, and deliver locally grown, healthy food, to area citizens in Northeastern Wisconsin. Forty thousand (40,000) pounds of locally grown beef will be the first food product that will be grown, processed and delivered to area hospitals. The objectives are: 1) education and outreach; 2) develop a pilot project for easy adaptation to other areas by working through the logistics for success; 3) Better understand the economics for healthy food by determining the real costs for fair profit and food purchases. The outcomes will be: 1) developing a sustainable community (addressing the social, economic and environmental needs); 2) promote the environmental benefits such as decrease soil erosion, improve soil health, wildlife habitat, surface and groundwater water quality; 3) empower consumers and local businesses, such as hospitals, to brand themselves as leaders in providing solutions to healthy food; 4) improve animal health and welfare, food quality and nutrition; and 5) promote the feasibility of grassed based farming that enhances lifestyles and environment.