All Field Trips and Short Courses are offered on Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5 at an additional price to full registration. Registration and payment for Field Trips must be received by 10/16.
Ingrid Daffner Krasnow, Berkeley Media Studies Group
Learn how media advocacy can advance public policy and explore the media’s role in shaping debates on public health. Participants will learn to apply strategic media advocacy concepts and to develop effective messages to support policy changes.
Suzanne Briggs, Farmers Market Coalition
Jean Hamilton, Northeast Organic Farming Association – Vermont
Stacy Miller, Farmers Market Coalition
Jezra Thompson, Roots of Change – California
Darlene Wolnik, Independent Trainer and Researcher for Public Markets
Building upon the Real Food, Real Choice research, this course will focus on variations of SNAP in Farmers Market implementation, SNAP-related federal, state and local policies, and engaging community partners. Lead by a diverse team of farmers market practitioners, this interactive training will engage participants to explore together how to make SNAP in Farmers Markets Sustainable.
Anupama Joshi, National Farm to School Network
Michelle Markesteyn Ratcliffe, Oregon Department of Agriculture
Interested in Farm to School & School Gardens? Interested in research to prove that these innovative programs rock? Come join a working session of researchers and practitioners to coordinate efforts on preferred methods for evaluation to strengthen programs, practices and policies.
Working in the three priority areas of evaluating the effects of FTS/SG programs on: (1) students’ health and wellness, (2) academic achievement, and (3) economic development, participants will:
• Share and discuss preferred tools for consistently articulating program implementation and measuring outcomes,
• Brainstorm ideas about how to overcome methodological challenges inherent in evaluating FTS/SG,
• Discuss how to leverage research projects to move programs and policies forward, and
• Identify and plug into next steps for continuing the national dialogue on forwarding FTS/SG research and evaluation.
Barbara Rusmore, Rusmore and Associates
Hugh Joseph, Agriculture, Food & Environment Program at Tufts University
This participatory workshop will help you plan a new community-based food project or improve an existing one. We cover the specifics of project planning, including design, community input, partnership building, capacity assessment, budgeting, workplans, and outcomes. Participants can develop (and leave with) a completed project plan as part of this workshop.
Deborah J. Walker, VISIONS, Inc. (Vigorous Interventions In Ongoing Natural Settings)
Terry Berman, VISIONS, Inc.
How do racism and other “isms” create power imbalances and inequities in the food system? How do they affect the work of your organization? Learn to recognize and challenge the impacts of modern racism, sexism, ageism, and classism; examine tools and approaches for dismantling these “isms”, and build partnerships for creating an equitable food system.
Jeanettte Abi-Nader, Community Food Security Coalition Evaluation Program
Diego Angarita, Catherine Sands & Janelis Rivera from Nuestras Raices
Erica Hall & Tanikka Cunningham from Healthy Solutions
Kathleen Banfield & Danielle Andrews from The Food Project
Claudia Corchado & Edie Jessup from Central California Obesity Prevention Program
Deb Habib, Seeds of Solidarity
Presenters from Nuestras Raices, Healthy Solutions, The Food Project, and the Central California Obesity Prevention Program
Come hear the stories of how four communities are using Whole Measures CFS to engage in a dialogue around the food system practices they value. Through activities such as a photo voice youth project, an eight county training curriculum, and a community greenhouse, these organizations are developing innovative and dynamic ways to plan and evaluate. Short course will also include an exploration of the WM CFS tool.
Cost: $85.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and snack)
The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) is a renowned organic farm incubator where farmworkers and aspiring farmers are trained in organic production, marketing and business development to then run their own farms. On this tour, ALBA’s beginning farmers will lead a tour of their farms as they share their experiences, successes and challenges. You will also visit the National Steinbeck Center to explore 200 years of history, immigration and struggle in the Salinas Valley.
This tour will introduce you to food system education and practice in both Oakland and Berkeley Unified School Districts. You will get to experience two very different types of garden-based learning; visit the famous Edible Schoolyard; eat a typical Berkeley “school lunch”; snack at one of Oakland’s 14 school-based produce stands; and talk with nutrition service directors from both Districts.
Hop on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) with a local guide and head to Berkeley for this student-led tour. You will tour the UC Berkeley campus and discuss how past student mobilizations inform current struggles against corporate control and privatization. You will also visit the recently formed Berkeley Student Food Collective and 40-year-old Student Organic Gardens to see how students are building a sustainable, student-owned, campus food system.
Cost: $95.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and tastings)
Tour the spectacular agricultural landscape of Marin County, just north of San Francisco, and learn about its innovations in farm and ranchland preservation, artisan food production, and food justice. Led by Marin Organic, you will meet with food movement leaders and visit some of Marin’s most beautiful and prestigious farms to “glean” produce to donate to underfunded schools. You will also sample delectable cheeses, wines, olive oils, and organic produce along the way.
Cost: $95.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and snack)
California’s beautiful Central Coast region has long played a pivotal role in the organic agriculture and food justice movements, cultivating a diverse group of food and farming enterprises dedicated to sustainability and social justice. On this tour, you will visit four innovative farms that focus on empowering farmworkers, low-income youth, and people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Since the 1960s, radical approaches to food system change have flourished in Berkeley. From “back to the land” to Chez Panisse, Berkeley innovations helped launch and shape the modern food movement. On this tour coordinated by the Berkeley Food Policy Council, you will get a whole systems view of Berkeley’s alternative food system by exploring the connections between institutional purchasing, urban farming, youth empowerment, farmers’ markets, alternative food enterprises and an active Food Policy Council.
On this half-day tour to San Francisco’s Mission District, you will see how food moves from farmer to retailer, and how two Mission-based companies are working to support local farmers and healthy eating. This tour will offer a sneak peek into the operations of Veritable Vegetable, the oldest organic produce distributor in the country, and Mission Pie, a green-certified bakery/café in the heart of the vibrant Mission District.
Many communities in northwestern Alameda County have high levels of poverty, crime and gang violence, and limited access to healthy food. On this tour, witness the remarkable process of revitalization of historically marginalized communities through two unique models focused on youth and community empowerment: one at the former Alameda Navy Base and the other on the blighted “forgotten lands” of South San Leandro.
On this tour, you will explore the dynamic food justice movement that has emerged in Oakland’s “food desert” communities: neighborhoods where healthy food is scarce, unemployment is high and poverty is criminalized. Meet with both new and established players in Oakland’s growing food movement—from the now-famous People’s Grocery to the young Phat Beets Produce—and learn how a community is coming together to take back its food system.
Through their food distribution programs in poor neighborhoods and anti-racist activism, the Black Panthers were among the original leaders of the U.S. food justice movement. On this historical bus tour led by Oakland-based Black Panther Legacy Tours, you will visit numerous sites significant to the Black Panther Party, the civil rights movement and United States History, with a focus on the BPP Community Survival programs.
Short Courses & Field Trips
All Field Trips and Short Courses are offered on Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5 at an additional price to full registration. Registration and payment for Field Trips must be received by 10/16.
Pre-Conference Event Schedule
Friday, November 4
Saturday, November 5
Short Courses
Introduction to Media Advocacy: Shaping the Public Debate
This course is full.
Friday 11/4, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Cost: $35.00
Ingrid Daffner Krasnow, Berkeley Media Studies Group
Learn how media advocacy can advance public policy and explore the media’s role in shaping debates on public health. Participants will learn to apply strategic media advocacy concepts and to develop effective messages to support policy changes.
SNAP at Farmers Markets: Logistics, Policies, Partners, and Evaluating Success
Saturday 11/5, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $75.00 (includes lunch)
Suzanne Briggs, Farmers Market Coalition
Jean Hamilton, Northeast Organic Farming Association – Vermont
Stacy Miller, Farmers Market Coalition
Jezra Thompson, Roots of Change – California
Darlene Wolnik, Independent Trainer and Researcher for Public Markets
Building upon the Real Food, Real Choice research, this course will focus on variations of SNAP in Farmers Market implementation, SNAP-related federal, state and local policies, and engaging community partners. Lead by a diverse team of farmers market practitioners, this interactive training will engage participants to explore together how to make SNAP in Farmers Markets Sustainable.
Farm to School & School Garden Research Consortium Work Session
Saturday 11/5, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost: $75.00
Anupama Joshi, National Farm to School Network
Michelle Markesteyn Ratcliffe, Oregon Department of Agriculture
Interested in Farm to School & School Gardens? Interested in research to prove that these innovative programs rock? Come join a working session of researchers and practitioners to coordinate efforts on preferred methods for evaluation to strengthen programs, practices and policies.
Working in the three priority areas of evaluating the effects of FTS/SG programs on: (1) students’ health and wellness, (2) academic achievement, and (3) economic development, participants will:
• Share and discuss preferred tools for consistently articulating program implementation and measuring outcomes,
• Brainstorm ideas about how to overcome methodological challenges inherent in evaluating FTS/SG,
• Discuss how to leverage research projects to move programs and policies forward, and
• Identify and plug into next steps for continuing the national dialogue on forwarding FTS/SG research and evaluation.
Planning Successful Community-Based Food Initiatives
Saturday 11/5, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $75.00
Barbara Rusmore, Rusmore and Associates
Hugh Joseph, Agriculture, Food & Environment Program at Tufts University
This participatory workshop will help you plan a new community-based food project or improve an existing one. We cover the specifics of project planning, including design, community input, partnership building, capacity assessment, budgeting, workplans, and outcomes. Participants can develop (and leave with) a completed project plan as part of this workshop.
Modern Racism in the Food System: Dismantling Tools and Approaches
Saturday 11/5, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $75.00
Deborah J. Walker, VISIONS, Inc. (Vigorous Interventions In Ongoing Natural Settings)
Terry Berman, VISIONS, Inc.
How do racism and other “isms” create power imbalances and inequities in the food system? How do they affect the work of your organization? Learn to recognize and challenge the impacts of modern racism, sexism, ageism, and classism; examine tools and approaches for dismantling these “isms”, and build partnerships for creating an equitable food system.
Whole Measures for Community Food Systems: Community Values in Evaluation & Planning
Saturday 11/5, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Cost: $35.00
Jeanettte Abi-Nader, Community Food Security Coalition Evaluation Program
Diego Angarita, Catherine Sands & Janelis Rivera from Nuestras Raices
Erica Hall & Tanikka Cunningham from Healthy Solutions
Kathleen Banfield & Danielle Andrews from The Food Project
Claudia Corchado & Edie Jessup from Central California Obesity Prevention Program
Deb Habib, Seeds of Solidarity
Presenters from Nuestras Raices, Healthy Solutions, The Food Project, and the Central California Obesity Prevention Program
Come hear the stories of how four communities are using Whole Measures CFS to engage in a dialogue around the food system practices they value. Through activities such as a photo voice youth project, an eight county training curriculum, and a community greenhouse, these organizations are developing innovative and dynamic ways to plan and evaluate. Short course will also include an exploration of the WM CFS tool.
Field Trips
Trips are being coordinated by Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy. For more detailed information about each of the Food Justice Tours please visit www.foodsovereigntytours.org/u-s-tours/cfsc2011
Empowering Young and Immigrant Farmers in the Salinas Valley
This tour is full.
Friday 11/4 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Cost: $85.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and snack)
The Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) is a renowned organic farm incubator where farmworkers and aspiring farmers are trained in organic production, marketing and business development to then run their own farms. On this tour, ALBA’s beginning farmers will lead a tour of their farms as they share their experiences, successes and challenges. You will also visit the National Steinbeck Center to explore 200 years of history, immigration and struggle in the Salinas Valley.
Click here to read more about this trip
Hunger in a Land of Plenty: Serving and Transforming California’s Rural Food DesertsThis trip has been cancelled.
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Rethinking School Food: Edible Schoolyard and Beyond
This tour is full.
Friday 11/4 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $65.00 (includes light breakfast and lunch)
This tour will introduce you to food system education and practice in both Oakland and Berkeley Unified School Districts. You will get to experience two very different types of garden-based learning; visit the famous Edible Schoolyard; eat a typical Berkeley “school lunch”; snack at one of Oakland’s 14 school-based produce stands; and talk with nutrition service directors from both Districts.
Click here to read more about this trip
Roots of Radicalism: Students Organizing for (Food) Justice
This tour is full.
Friday 11/4 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cost: $40.00 (includes snack)
Hop on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) with a local guide and head to Berkeley for this student-led tour. You will tour the UC Berkeley campus and discuss how past student mobilizations inform current struggles against corporate control and privatization. You will also visit the recently formed Berkeley Student Food Collective and 40-year-old Student Organic Gardens to see how students are building a sustainable, student-owned, campus food system.
Click here to read more about this trip
Collective Roots: Tackling Poverty and Structural Racism in the Food SystemThis trip has been cancelled.
Click here to read more about this trip
Marin Organic: Preserving Farmland & Growing Food Justice
Saturday 11/5, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Cost: $95.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and tastings)
Tour the spectacular agricultural landscape of Marin County, just north of San Francisco, and learn about its innovations in farm and ranchland preservation, artisan food production, and food justice. Led by Marin Organic, you will meet with food movement leaders and visit some of Marin’s most beautiful and prestigious farms to “glean” produce to donate to underfunded schools. You will also sample delectable cheeses, wines, olive oils, and organic produce along the way.
Click here to read more about this trip
Central Coast Innovations: Empowering Farmworkers and Low-Income Youth
Saturday 11/5, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Cost: $95.00 (includes light breakfast, lunch and snack)
California’s beautiful Central Coast region has long played a pivotal role in the organic agriculture and food justice movements, cultivating a diverse group of food and farming enterprises dedicated to sustainability and social justice. On this tour, you will visit four innovative farms that focus on empowering farmworkers, low-income youth, and people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
Click here to read more about this trip
Berkeley Food Policy Council: Working Together for an Alternative Food System
Saturday 11/5, 8:30 am – 2:00 pm
Cost: $65.00 (includes light breakfast and lunch)
Since the 1960s, radical approaches to food system change have flourished in Berkeley. From “back to the land” to Chez Panisse, Berkeley innovations helped launch and shape the modern food movement. On this tour coordinated by the Berkeley Food Policy Council, you will get a whole systems view of Berkeley’s alternative food system by exploring the connections between institutional purchasing, urban farming, youth empowerment, farmers’ markets, alternative food enterprises and an active Food Policy Council.
Click here to read more about this trip
Sustainable Food and Green Business in San Francisco’s Mission District
This tour is full.
Saturday 11/5, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Cost: $65.00 (includes light breakfast and pie)
On this half-day tour to San Francisco’s Mission District, you will see how food moves from farmer to retailer, and how two Mission-based companies are working to support local farmers and healthy eating. This tour will offer a sneak peek into the operations of Veritable Vegetable, the oldest organic produce distributor in the country, and Mission Pie, a green-certified bakery/café in the heart of the vibrant Mission District.
Click here to read more about this trip
Revitalizing Community through Youth and Urban Agriculture (FULL)
This tour is full.
Saturday 11/5, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Cost: $65.00 (includes light breakfast and lunch)
Many communities in northwestern Alameda County have high levels of poverty, crime and gang violence, and limited access to healthy food. On this tour, witness the remarkable process of revitalization of historically marginalized communities through two unique models focused on youth and community empowerment: one at the former Alameda Navy Base and the other on the blighted “forgotten lands” of South San Leandro.
Click here to read more about this trip
Oakland Food Justice: Building Community, Growing Our Movement (FULL)
This tour is full.
Saturday 11/5, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $65.00 (includes light breakfast and lunch)
On this tour, you will explore the dynamic food justice movement that has emerged in Oakland’s “food desert” communities: neighborhoods where healthy food is scarce, unemployment is high and poverty is criminalized. Meet with both new and established players in Oakland’s growing food movement—from the now-famous People’s Grocery to the young Phat Beets Produce—and learn how a community is coming together to take back its food system.
Click here to read more about this trip
Urban Farm Revolution: Greening San Francisco for the PeopleThis trip has been cancelled.
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Panthers to Pitchforks: Food Justice and the Black Panthers Legacy (FULL)
This tour is full.
Saturday 11/5, 3:00 am – 6:00 pm
Cost: $40.00 (includes snack)
Through their food distribution programs in poor neighborhoods and anti-racist activism, the Black Panthers were among the original leaders of the U.S. food justice movement. On this historical bus tour led by Oakland-based Black Panther Legacy Tours, you will visit numerous sites significant to the Black Panther Party, the civil rights movement and United States History, with a focus on the BPP Community Survival programs.
Click here to read more about this trip