This
conference if for you if you are thinking that selling fresh food to schools
and institutions may be in your future market plan. Note that there are 2
sessions that focus on this in the March 25 at the Growing Our Food
System, Nourishing Our People. The event will be held at the Lansing Community
College-West Campus and the reg fee is only $5.00. to register go to www.greaterlansingfoodbank.org
or call me and I can help you register on line. Here is the agenda for that
day: Hope you can attend.
Growing our Food System: Nourishing Our People
March 25, 2010
Events of the Day
Time Activity
8:00 – 8:30
Registration
8:30 –
9:15 Multi-sector
conversations - Meet people working in other ‘sectors’ of the
food system.
9:15 –
10:30 The
Mid-Michigan Food System – Mike Hamm C.S. Mott Professor of
Sustainable Agriculture
Food Security in the Region
– Terry Link, Executive Director of the Greater Lansing Food Bank
10:30 –
10:45 Break
10:45 –
12:15 Inspirational
Models
·
Food Bank, Soup Kitchen, Garden Partnership
–W. DeWayne Wells, Gleaners Community Food Bank President; Patrick
Crouch, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Farm Program Manager
·
Educational Farm -Melissa Hornaday,
Giving Tree Farm Manager
·
Produce Distribution - Eric Hahn, Founder
of Locavore Food Distributors
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:
30 Break
out sessions
Option #1: Pantry Innovations
v Likely Topics – models, emerging trends, new ideas and approaches to
bring in fresh food/produce
v Likely Participants - Pantry
volunteers and workers
Option #2: Locally Grown Food
for Local People
v Likely Topics - Connecting local farms with local institutions, markets, retailers,
etc.
v Likely Participants –
Growers, farmers, distributors, institutional food service managers
Option #3: Food in Community
v Likely Topics - urban agriculture and community development, farmers markets,
grocery store and corner store improvements, community gardens, pocket parks,
etc.
v Likely Participants – urban food activists, neighborhood center
staff, neighborhood organizers, market managers, urban gardeners
Option #4: Investment and
Policy-making
v Likely Topics – policy changes,
investment opportunities
v Likely Participants – educators,
policymakers, elected officials, health professionals, community
development professionals, planners
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2:45 –
3:30 Reporting
Out from Break Out Sessions
3:30 –
4:00 Closing
Remarks from Terry Link
Vicki Morrone
303 Natural Resources Bldg
C.S. Mott Group
Dept of CARRS
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-3542/517-282-3557 (cell)
www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu for
information on organic and sustaianable farming and news & events