Strategy Design
Beaumont Urban Agriculture Plan
As Beaumont’s first comprehensive approach to urban agriculture, this plan turns a big ambition into a structured, collaborative path forward, aligning residents, community groups, and the City around practical actions that strengthen local resilience and quality of life, year after year.
Turning the city’s agricultural roots into a modern plan for food security and wellbeing.
Beaumont wanted to build on its agricultural heritage, while strengthening food security, community health, climate readiness, sustainable local food systems, and reconciliation, in a way that works on both public and private land. To do that, the City needed a clear, community-supported plan that turns interest into action, with defined roles and a practical implementation path.
Profile
Client: City of Beaumont (AB)
Practice Areas: Strategy Design, Community Dialogue
Impact Domains: Agriculture & Food; Urbanism
Awards: 2024 Alberta Professional Planners Institute Award for Comprehensive & Policy Plan
Work
Built Beaumont’s first comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan, grounded in guiding principles, a long-term vision, eight goals, and 12 key actions
Designed a two-phase process with research, policy review, and deep community engagement, including surveys, workshops, youth engagement, and Indigenous relationship discussions
Converted input into an action-ready direction through a staff strategy sprint and iterative validation, leading to a final submission to Council
Created a clear governance and delivery model that reflects the shared nature of urban agriculture, City as convenor and enabler, community as primary implementers
Established a continuous-improvement implementation cycle (Act, Report, Assess, Adjust) to keep momentum, learn fast, and adapt over a 10-year horizon
