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  • From: Marcie Rosenzweig <fullcircle AT jps.net>
  • To: market-farming post <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: FW: Farm-to-table Conference
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:19:23 -0800




Stolen from Sanet for all you in the Northwest. Looks like a really great
conference.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Garrett [ mailto:sgarrett AT wsu.edu <mailto:sgarrett AT wsu.edu> ]
>Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:15 PM
>To: san AT nal.usda.gov
>Cc: beusc AT wsu.edu
>Subject: Farm-to-table Conference
>
>
>Andy,
>Please post this to sanet
>
>On March 24-26 a unique and exciting conference on community-based food and
>farm systems will take place in Olympia, WA (60 miles south of Seattle).
>This conference entitled, "Farm to Table: Growing Healthy Foodsheds and
>Community," is being sponsored by Washington State University Cooperative
>Extension, the Cascade Harvest Coalition, and the Sustainable Agriculture
>Program at the Washington State
>Department of Agriculture.
>
>This unique forum will feature sessions on farmland preservation,
>sustainable farming practices, consumer food decisions, community-based
>marketing, the globalization of food systems, faith-based connections to the
>food system, community-based food processing, sustainable local "foodsheds",
>urban agriculture, connections between the farming and
>culinary community, and much more.
>
>Keynote speakers for this conference include: Wes Jackson, "The Need of
>Being Versed in Country Things;" Joan Dye Gussow, "Eating Locally: What,
>When and Why?;" Chef Tom French, "Making a Difference: Building Community
>Strength Through Healthy Food and Farm Systems;" Fred Kirschenmann, "Feeding
>the Village First: Barriers and Opportunities;" Michael Ableman, "Twenty
>Years on an Urban Farm: Lessons from the Past, Models for the Future;" and a
>combined session with Jack Kloppenburg and Bill
>Heffernan, "Global Food-Local Food: Eating to Sustain Farms and Communities
>in
>the 21st Century.
>
>You are invited to participate in what should be a unique and timely
>conference
>to discuss and work on issues related to the creation of sustainable,
>healthy,
>community-based farm and food systems. Complete information about all
>sessions, registration information and forms, etc. is available on the
>worldwide web at:
>http://foodfarm.wsu.edu/farmtotable <http://foodfarm.wsu.edu/farmtotable>
>Time is limited to register, so don't
>delay. And, please spread the word about this exciting conference to your
>friends and associates. It will be an event to remember.
>
>
>
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Marcie A. Rosenzweig
Full Circle Organic Farm
Auburn, CA





  • FW: Farm-to-table Conference, Marcie Rosenzweig, 01/31/2000

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