Food is a vital component to making a sustainable community.  Supporting the local economy by buying from Minnesota farmers and being healthy through access to nutritious food is a goal of the City of Saint Paul.  With an activist community around food issues, Saint Paul is moving toward an environment that is supportive and encouraging of increased consumption, production and distribution of healthy, sustainable and locally grown food.

• Adopting a Municipal Food Policy that has been in effect since 1987
• Hosting seventeen community vegetable gardens.
• Connecting schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers through Farm to School .
• Encouraging residents to participate in the Saint Paul Environmental Roundtable, hosted by Eureka Recycling, to help set Saint Paul's policy direction on six environmental issues: zero waste, food systems, cleaner energy, green building, open space, and water stewardship
• Recycling food waste by feeding it to pigs through the Food Waste Recycling Program which began in 2008
• Adopting a resolution in July 2009 directing staff to work with Ramsey County Health and community organizations to "explore necessary changes to City policy (including possible zoning, licensing/permitting, HRA/easement policies) and facilitate a network of resources to support the production, distribution and consumption of healthy and locally grown food."