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  • From: MariavHM AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: 4th Annual Future of Our Food and Farms Summit & NESAWG 10th Anniversary Resourc
  • Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:00:05 EDT

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4th Annual Future of Our Food and Farms Summit & NESAWG 10th Anniversary Resource Harvest

"Our Future Grows Here"

December 5 & 6, 2002
Wilmington, Delaware

Register now for the 4th Annual Future of our Food and Farms Summit and NESAWG 10th Anniversary Resource Harvest to be held in Wilmington, Delaware just 20 minutes south of Philadelphia.

For an electronic version of the conference brochure, visit our web site www.foodfarm.org

The 2002 Summit & Resource Harvest, "Our Future Grows Here," features:

--  Marion Nestle, author of the nationally acclaimed, Food Politics: Industry Influences on Nutrition and Health

--  Desmond Jolly, agricultural economist and Director of the Small Farm Program at the University of California-Davis

Autumn Harvest Banquet & NESAWG Anniversary Celebration
featuring local foods, beer, and wine!!

Special Training Sessions:

--  NEW! Direct Marketing Training for Farm Profitability - For Cooperative Extension & Other Ag Professionals, Sponsored by Northeast SARE and featuring Fred Magdoff, Northeast SARE; Pam Ciervo, Collingswood Farmers Market, Nina Planck, Founder, London Farmers' Markets; Jim Zink, farmer, Haven Hill Farm, Ike Kerschner, farmer, North Star Orchard and other direct marketing experts! Scholarships available.

--  2nd Annual Hunger Congress, Hosted by the Food Resources Alliance, with Julie Paradis, Washington Council, America's Second Harvest; Federal and state legislators from MD, DE, PA, and NJ; and JoAnn Connelly, Greater Philadelphia Food Bank

--  Agriculture Development Forum: Reconnecting Agriculture, Food and Community, a community-based economic development training, with Community, Food and Agriculture Program staff, Cornell University

--  Community Food Security Training: Putting Community Food Security to Work for You, a hands-on session on community assessment and action, with Ruth Katz, Just Food (NY) and Suse Greenstone, Just Community Food Systems of S. Central PA

--  NEW! FSNEP Nutrition Education Symposium, featuring Alice Lockett, USDA FNS; and FSNEP project and leaders from DE, MD, NJ and PA. Learn how FSNEP projects in the NE are meeting 2010 goals, and hear exciting highlights from projects that have changed behavior and diets.

Plus over two dozen workshops on direct marketing, hunger and nutrition, school programs, cooperatives, and much much more!

Viist our web site at www.foodfarm.org for more information


  • 4th Annual Future of Our Food and Farms Summit & NESAWG 10th Anniversary Resourc, MariavHM, 10/18/2002

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