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We are honored to be of service to you and your community. https://www.kitchentableconsulting.com/projects-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1524510321477-ECESQ8SM1X1CXDJXSO28/convergencelifestooshort.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/c0735f9e-5afa-49d9-8f40-4056d89044c8/Combined+CALFIRE+Clifton+1_Page_1.jpg Projects - Jackson Demonstration State Forest - Management Plan California Demonstration State Forests seek to balance Tribal Co-management of public lands, research and sustainable logging practices, restoration of water resources and habitats, climate resilience, fire protection, and recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of the forest. A key element to seeking this balance is the creation of a Forest Management Plan every ten years. Kitchen Table Consulting, in collaboration with Clifton Environmental and CAL FIRE, designed and facilitated 15 public engagement workshops and public comment periods, stakeholder interviews and public outreach to create the 2026 Jackson Demonstration State Forest Forest Management Plan. This plan will allow the public and forest managers to operationalize the goals of the varied interests groups and legislative mandates of the forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1565041084027-61I5IQ1VXHOXCRF4A3C0/Wallace%2BLogo%2BFINAL%2B%28HORZ%29.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/3686637f-9d3a-4efc-85fd-4847a5b0a893/FSLN+logo2.png Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/76b3c3c5-4fab-4b7a-8812-d88563f04151/F3+Horizontal+Logo.png Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/33979658-2f0f-4101-ba3d-fc9d8e51ee2c/KG_logo_primary_PMS_171.jpg Projects - Strategic Planning and Actions Community-based organizations are often working closest to the producers and community members in need of their products and services. As new organizations form to meet the needs of their communities, they are often ‘building the plane as they are learning to fly’. Kitchen Table Consulting worked with key stakeholders of the regional food system of Klamath Falls, OR and the staff and board of Klamath Grown to identify and prioritize strategic directions for the growing organization, organize personnel and capacity to be effective, and co-create usable action plans to begin moving forward immediately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/c66d6a94-d262-4d33-88bc-8d6905469d5d/UCANR_+HZ_2019+color.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/62fb5d5f-154e-42bd-8c8a-193e2c33fc99/CEL+Logo1.png Projects - School Meals for All Sometimes organizations need interim assistance from experienced professionals during times of change and shift. Jen worked full-time for seven months with the Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) in a communications and policy support role while two directors were simultaneously out on maternity leave (they had their babies on the same day!) and while the organization actively sought a new Executive Director. All this time, CEL was also co-leading, with the Kat Taylor Foundation, one of the biggest efforts in school food history. Jen had the great pleasure of focusing on CEL’s School Meals for All campaign, collaborating with statewide coalition partners on policy and communications strategies to secure ample funding for free school meals for over six million California public school students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/94a59bf9-d6d8-4190-8283-6d215bcaf174/Rogue+Valley+Logo.png Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/08c897d6-5ec0-43f7-852f-468813190cd0/USDA.CSU.UKlogo2.png Projects - Local and Regional Food System (LRFS) Recovery and Resilience Project Effective and engaging collaborative networks function best when they are designed and facilitated for honest, safe, and transparent communication and accountability. Kitchen Table Consulting was brought on board to facilitate and co-develop the Network of Networks in cross-agency and sector learning, collaboration, and strategic action. The Network convenes organizations leading local and regional food system stakeholder networks, university-based researchers, and USDA staff and leadership to share urgent and emergent issues, coordinate strategies and programing, and foster cross-stakeholder communication and collaboration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1531945764897-DIY66N59GM94KPJ4K3R2/EPA+logo.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1574456106711-H920ZXSSYVM89KJPY5YD/ClimateActionCommittee.jpg Projects - Climate Action Advisory Committee Time is of the essence for this citizen’s initiative committee comprised of 15 people from diverse backgrounds. Their task: create a solid climate action plan and actions to present to County leadership and the communities of Mendocino County. KTC was hired to facilitate the foundational work so that the advisory board could hit the ground running with support through the forming and storming phases. It’s our intention that they move right into norming and performing and and are able to work with a high level of effectiveness as they take on this important community and global role. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1550169300479-BPD2V1B683R0W33OMF0C/ClimateFriendlyFood.png Projects - Climate-Friendly Food Service We can’t begin to affect climate change impacts if we don’t address school food. Enter a few projects to help Friends of the Earth’s Food & Technology team advocate for healthy, climate-friendly food in K-12 and college campuses. Jen acted as organizer, vision-sharer, and facilitator of a number of Healthy, Climate-Friendly Food Service regional forums and facilitated a group of coalition partners. She is also co-author of a national report Scaling Up Climate-Friendly School Food: Recipes for Success. Blended burgers are the vehicle for change on college campuses, through the Better Burger Campaign. KTC took the lead on this campaign, crafting messages and conducting individual outreach to hundreds of university and college food service and sustainability leaders and helped some of them introduce this concept, all the while, helping to build the supply chain. Let’s get plant-powered! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527289600030-AFYB6D4I1WVQMI96JHID/CityofUkiahLogo_FINAL.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527289502220-K2WX8MGCA66OXASSOSGK/NCO_logo+BIG.jpg Projects - Partnerships To Improve Community Health Lake County ranked in the bottom five counties in California terms of quality of life via the social determinants of health. With funding through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jen directed a 3-year “Partnerships to Improve Community Health” initiative and led a local team to implement systems, policy and environment change in food systems and clinical settings. By enlisting the help of nationally recognized organizations, the team created a program and curriculum for a “Wellness Rx” pilot at a Tribal Health Center (with help from an exceptional Americorps VISTA); shifted restaurant menus with collaboration with the Culinary Institute of America’s lead restaurant consultants for Menus for Change; executed a food desert assessment and healthy store program with help from The Food Trust’s National Healthy Corner Stores Network; and designed and branded a “Be Well Lake County” and “I Am Lake County” advertising campaign to re-frame the narrative from “this place is so unhealthy” to “hey, there are inspiring stories and resources around here.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527289097491-U1F30D63LMM2AW3NI30O/Healthy+Mendo+Logo.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527288327419-XLH2BZZW67AG019TR9OH/mendocinocountyfoodactionplan_Page_01.jpg Projects - Mendocino County Food Action Plan The food movement has been an important engine for reinvigorating declining agricultural bases and depressed economies throughout the U.S.. Miles was the lead facilitator of a two-year community engagement process to compile the guiding principles, goals, and actions in the Mendocino County Food Action Plan. KTC helped craft the communications plan for the launch of this living, guiding document for the Mendocino County Food Policy Council and the multiple and diverse stakeholders involved in its formation. This plan continues to drive the process of the regional food movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527292730737-794BJ7WH0Z03GSSODKK1/AARC+logo.png Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1527292406604-7TUNJAAHY7XZ1U1T8NB4/ecosur3.png Projects - ECOSUR: El Colegio de La Frontera Sur Industrial, processed food has led to a deterioration of community health and local economies throughout the State of Chiapas, Mexico. Miles was invited by ECOSUR to develop and implement a training program in Spanish for 30 teachers throughout the state. The training guided teachers in the development and execution of community-based Action Plans for the communities where they teach and live. The goals were to build and sustain healthy, community based food systems and meet the unique needs of multi-lingual indigenous communities, rural and urban centers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac67ed2e74940885d09ba90/1531952464964-GEXIKYW52GRI4SBE1Z1H/culver_stacked_logo_sm_oval.png Projects - Sustainability & Food Systems Culver Academies – a co-ed boarding school in Indiana – is developing goals, plans, and programs to improve operational sustainability. Miles advised Culver Academies’ Sustainability Director in the development of an integrated institutional food system through multi-stakeholder collaboration, curricular and staff integration, and grant and revenue based funding mechanisms. 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