permaculture

["Amy Little" <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>]

Hi Northeast Permies,

If you are someone who wrote to me about getting involved in federal ag 
policy, I am sorry if I did not get back to you- I have been experiencing 
scary email glitches. If you wrote to me and you are still interested and do 
not hear from me in a week or so, please get back to me. (I may have not seen 
your email)

 

The Policy Roundtable will be on February 10 as a pre-meeting to the NESAWG 
conference. We have a diverse mix of policy leaders from many farm and food 
sectors. The focus is federal policy only, but there are other workshops and 
meetings dealing with food and farm policies at many levels. You can check 
out the conference at http://www.nefood.org/page/annual-conference.

 

Thanks for your patience,

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Amy Little, Organizer

NESAWG,  The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

 <http://www.nesawg.org/> http://www.nesawg.org

845-255-0822 home office

845-853-3440 cell

amylittle@hvc.rr.com

 

 

 

 

From: northeasternpermaculture-request@lists.riseup.net 
[mailto:northeasternpermaculture-request@lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Erik 
Hoffner
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:59 AM
To: Northeast Permaculture
Subject: [northeasternpermaculture] "It Takes a Region," new date/plans

 

Hurricane Sandy preempted the usual "It Takes a Region" food system 
conference that NE Sustainable Ag Working Group hosts annually. This is a key 
gathering of new food system activists and architects, details on the 
arrangements below.

 

Erik

 

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Don't miss The Boxcar Lilies at the Iron Horse, 11/25 ~ 
http://www.boxcarlilies.com/tickets.html





Celebrate NESAWG’s 20th Anniversary at a Working Conference in
at the Saratoga Hilton, Saratoga Springs, New York!
February 10-12th, 2013

 <http://www.nefood.org/page/registration> 


Please note that the conference workshops and time slots posted here are 
subject to change.  We will be working with workshop facilitators and 
presenters, and will post changes as needed.  We expect to stay close to the 
original content and schedule.  Please stay tuned, and thanks again for your 
patience!

 

Sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, It Takes a 
Region is the conference for everyone doing food system change work! Together 
we'll build on exciting efforts underway in our region in production, 
distribution logistics, research, food access and nutrition, policy advocacy 
and more.  Whatever your part in the Northeast food system, this conference 
is for you!

This conference also marks NESAWG’s 20thanniversary. We’re combining a 
captivating retrospective with celebration. Be a part of propelling our 
network into its next decade! Our two-part plenary sessions, Twenty-Year 
Theater, is sure to entertain as we march through two decades of the food 
movement in the context of broader social and cultural trends and events. 
Where were you and what were you eating? What was NESAWG doing? What music 
moved us? When did we first welcome the fax machine? This creative look-back 
will help propel our work going forward.

 

We welcome new participants – especially emerging food system leaders and 
community activists. We'll address pressing issues such as food system worker 
equity, food production and diet, and climate, energy and agriculture. We'll 
tackle our region's pressing regional and federal policy priorities. And 
we’ll continue to explore scale, geography, and partnerships.

Meet other food system advocates, local community food leaders, policymakers, 
planners, researchers, Extension and other educators, farm groups and support 
organizations, food supply chain businesses, consumer groups, youth, students 
and young food system professionals. It takes a region to build a regional 
food system. It takes you!

Conference sponsors make it possible for us to offer scholarships that make 
conference participation diverse and inclusive. Please contact us 
<http://www.nefood.org/page/contact-us>  if you are interested in being a 
conference sponsor.


http://www.nefood.org/page/annual-conference