FROM SOURCE TO SINK,
A Forward Thinking Consulting Company Focused on Agriculture and Fishery Resources
SERVICES
Spork offers a wide range of services focused on food systems. We are a small, Alaskan based consulting company, with a geographically and experientially broad network of collaborators.
Spork is focused on understanding and enhancing our current food systems. We strive to integrate concepts of environmental, economic, and social sustainability, self-sufficiency, and health to improve, directly or indirectly, community food security.
MISSION
We work diligently to provide the information and support necessary to strengthen local food systems. We strive to integrate concepts of environmental, economic, and social sustainability as well as self-sufficiency and health to improve, directly or indirectly, community food security.
We work with our clients to develop the tools and guiding documents you need to make informed decisions, craft convincing arguments, and turn visions into reality.
CLIENTS
Food is part of everything we do and every system we operate in. We offer a variety of services ranging from assessment through implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
We work with a wide range of clients including: government agencies, Native corporations, for-profit and non-profit businesses, universities, schools, restaurants, farmers, distributors, and economic development agencies. If you are working with, within or around a food system, we are the company for you.
ABOUT
Spork Consulting is a minority-owned business based in Anchorage, Alaska. Founded in 2014, Spork has completed a range of food systems assessments, programs, and projects throughout the state and the lower-48.
Spork offers a wide range of services focused on understanding and enhancing food systems. We strive to integrate concepts of environmental, economic, and social sustainability as well as self-sufficiency and health to improve, directly or indirectly, community food security. We work with our clients to develop the tools and guiding documents needed to make informed decisions, craft convincing arguments, and turn visions into reality.
Melissa Heuer, Spork Principal, has specialized skills-based knowledge in systems thinking and mapping, and project management experience focused on food-based system dynamics. This specialized knowledge is rooted in an educational background with a BS in Biology, an MBA in Systems Thinking, and a specialized Masters Certificate on the Business and Dynamics of Food and Agriculture. With an additional specialty focused on Alaskan food systems, Spork has dedicated experience in a wide range of projects dealing with all aspects of rural and urban food issues spanning across the often logistically unique and culturally diverse landscape of Alaska.