Farm to School: Connecting Small Farmers with Low-Income Districts
Diana Abellera, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Jennifer LeBarre, Oakland Unified School District
Miguel Villlarreal, Novato Unified School District
Torrey Olson, Gabriel Farm & Olsons West
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Farm to School programs are popping up around the nation, and making it work is all about creativity. Hear how food service directors are incorporating more farm fresh produce into the menus and get tips on how to make it work with your school.
Hands-on Cooking School & Innovative School Lunch Menu Planning
Zenobia Barlow, Center for Ecoliteracy
Ann M. Evans, Evans & Brennan, LLC
Jennifer LeBarre, Oakland Unified School District
Georgeanne Brennan, Evans & Brennan, LLC
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45pm
Join award-winning co-authors Georgeanne Brennan and Ann Evans, along with Jennifer LeBarre of Oakland Unified and Zenobia Barlow of the Center for Ecoliteracy, as they lead an interactive, hands-on cooking experience and dialogue using the Center’s new cookbook-guide, Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools. Complimentary cookbook to all participants.
Growing Farm to Preschool: Bringing the “Farm” to Preschool Settings
Rosa Romero, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College
Stacy Sobell, Ecotrust
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15pm
Sharpen your nutrition and garden-based curricular skills emphasizing local food and farm-based concepts to target preschoolers, parents and teachers through demonstrations and role play. Strategize ways to increase fruit and vegetable access and consumption among this population and communities and how to grow the farm to preschool movement nationally.
Whole Fresh Food in Schools: One Plate At a Time
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00am
Ann Cooper, Food Family Farming Foundation
Chef Timothy Cipriano, New Haven Public Schools
Chef Beth Collins, Food Family Farming Foundation
This session bridges the gap between a desire to implement change and having tools to succeed. Meet, learn, and engage with three leaders in affecting real improvements in school food systems. Participants will be introduced to a free resource that offers recipes, budgets, studies, marketing, purchasing, training, grants and community.
Developing New Leaders in the Food Movement
Money, Power and the Class Dynamics of Fundraising
Elizabeth Ü, Finance for Food
Haile Johnston, Common Market Philadelphia; Center for Progressive Leadership
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Want to develop a deeper understanding of the fundraising process and purpose? Got strong feelings and attitudes about money, power, and class dynamics? Through art, interactive exercises, and pair sharing, participants in this workshop will unpack money myths and stories while learning community-building fundraising skills in a supportive, confidential space.
New Hispanic Leaders for Healthy Communities
Edie Jessup, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program- CCROPP
Lourdes Perez, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Imelda Castellanos, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Jose Arturo Palato, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Adriana Guevara, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
¡Este taller es in español! 160 new Hispanic leaders in 8 Central Valley California counties participated in a year-long leadership training in their neighborhoods and emerged to plan their food and built environment, develop access to healthy foods, work with small farmers, and change how they get to healthy food.
Urban Ag and Participatory Education in NYC
Ursula Chanse, Bronx Green-Up/The New York Botanical Garden
Sara Katz, Bronx Green-Up/The New York Botanical Garden
Jane Hodge, Just Food/FarmSchool NY
Lorrie Clevenger, Black Urban Growers/WhyHunger
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
This workshop will explore the role of grassroots organizing and participatory education in building leadership within the urban farming movement in NYC, focusing on FarmSchool NYC. Through group discussions and activities, participants will hear about and experience strategies that they can use in their work.
More than Bricks and Mortar: Food Security, Community Development, and the Role of the Intermediary
Margaret Gee, Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Ashley Jones-Wisner, Greater Kansas City LISC
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Despite the important role of food in the sustainability of every community, issues of food security have not been broadly addressed by the community development industry. Join us for a discussion of how intermediaries can work with local partners to elevate food issues within the community development industry, while bringing new voices and new resources to the table.
Training for Change: Growing Food Justice Leaders from Within
Tracey Patterson, Southeast Food Access (SEFA)
Antonia Williams, SEFA Food Guardians
Kenneth Hill, SEFA Food Guardians
Susana Hennessey-Lavery, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Jazz Vassar, SEFA Food Guardians
Jameela Toups, SEFA Food Guardians
Christina Goette, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Jacob Moody, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
This workshop will explore ways to train and guide new food justice leaders to create positive change within their own communities. The SEFA Food Guardian Project uses popular education and a multi-strategy approach in Bayview Hunters Point, SF. We will identify strategies to build effective, lasting leadership within underserved communities.
Food Policy from Neighborhood to Nation
Baltimore’s Food Justice Initiatives: Urban Agriculture, Virtual Supermarkets and More
Abby Cocke, Baltimore Office of Sustainability
Laura Fox, Baltimore City Health Department
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Learn about the exciting new models for food justice coming out of Baltimore. City government putting out a call for urban farmers to lease public land? Groceries delivered to your local school or library? Collaboration with researchers providing resources and informing policy and zoning changes? Hear all about it!
Uniting the Strengths of the Sweatfree and Food Justice Movements
Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum
Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Ryan Zinn, Fair World Project
Roman Pinal, United Farm Workers
Chris Bohner, UNITE Here
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
The sweatfree movement has been extremely successful in winning 191 policies for responsible procurement of apparel in cities, states, and school districts around the U.S. Learn lessons from this movement to apply to food purchasing by government and schools so we can improve the conditions for workers, producers, and consumers.
Advocating Beyond Food: Building Unity for a Just and Sustainable Food/Farm System
Don Bustos, National Immigrant Farming Initiative
Helen Dombalis, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Explore the context and content of food justice, as well as, policies that affect the consumer, the farmworker, the rural farmer/rancher, indigenous and urban communities. Build a shared agenda for the 2012 Farm Bill inclusive of the needs of socially-disadvantaged agricultural producers and others historically excluded in the past.
Small Entrepreneurs Gaining Access: Shared Kitchens & Cottage Food Laws
Christina Oatfield, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Janelle Orsi, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Gabriel Cole, Fare Resources
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Learn about strategies for small food entrepreneurs to access kitchens needed to sell food, develop a customer base and test out their business model before owning a commercial kitchen. We’ll talk about sharing commercial kitchens and state laws that allow a limited amount of food to be made in home kitchens commercially.
Community Data and Shared Learning Systems for Food Justice
Christopher Fulcher, Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES)
Hank Herrera, Center for Popular Research, Education and Policy
Roxanne Medina-Fulcher, Community Initiatives
Chris Paterson, Community Initiatives
Wendy Peters Moschetti, WPM Consulting, LLC
Note: this is a three hour workshop
Sunday, November 6 1:15pm – 4:15pm
This session introduces web-based GIS tools that enable users to overlay 7000+ data layers (e.g., food deserts, socio-economics, demographic, transportation, health, education) for any community in the U.S. Participants will make maps as they explore the system and tools for understanding and addressing disparities within their community and regional food systems.
The Farm Bill and Community Food Security
Kathy Mulvey, Community Food Security Coalition
Aisha Amuda, Community Food Security Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
Bring your questions about the Farm Bill, how it relates to community food security, what’s coming down the pike in 2012, and what you can do. We’ll break into small groups to discuss key issues based on your brainstorm. Participants will gain basic knowledge and ideas about how to mobilize their communities and consituencies
Get Cultured: Communications and Art for Food Justice
Moving a Local Food Agenda Through Strategic Messaging
Strategic messaging is critical to advancing a local foods agenda—in both local and national policy arenas. But what messaging works? Learn how to work with partners to create a message framework and hear real examples of how strong messaging and collaborative partnerships can lead to concrete policy change.
I Was A Teenage Jalapeño: Creative Youth-Led Media Strategies
Mike Blockstein, Public Matters
Reanne Estrada, Public Matters
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
From the classroom to the corner store, market makeovers feature creative community engagement. Showcasing their work with UCLA CPHHD, East L.A. Renaissance Academy high school students and Public Matters will discuss innovative youth engagement to generate and disseminate media and social marketing materials. Learn strategies, classroom activities and student takeaways.
Social Media 101: A Community Change-Maker’s Guide to the New Media Generation
Explore the Power of Social Media: What it is, why it matters, who’s using it for good (and evil), and how it builds community dialogue and promotes information sharing. Includes basic how-to’s, top 10 do’s and don’ts, and case studies of successful campaigns.
Improving Access to Healthy Food
Community-Driven Marketing for Successful Corner Store Conversions
Clare Fox, Community Market Conversion Program, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Cedar Landsman, Community Market Conversion Program, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Elizabeth Stewart, Groundswell
Lawrence DeFrietes, Community Services Unlimited
Heather Fenney Alexander, Community Services Unlimited
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
“If you build it…will they come?” What is the role of community-driven marketing and organizing in sustaining the successful transformation of a corner store? How can corner store conversions inspire participatory community economic development with lasting impact? Three distinct organizations facilitate a dialogue from a national, grassroots and government perspective.
Understanding Motivators and Evaluating SNAP/EBT Incentive Outcomes in Farmers Markets
Migdalia Loyola, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota – Center for Prevention
Amy Gilroy, Oregon Public Health Institute
Richard McCarthy, Market Umbrella
Stacy Miller, Farmers Market Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
SNAP/EBT implementation in farmers markets depends on understanding the self-motivators of farmers and SNAP shoppers. Markets can balance community needs, design incentives that target diverse interests and challenges, and define ‘success’ accordingly. We’ll discuss strategies to evaluate outcomes of SNAP integration and incentives that simultaneously meet the needs of farmers, consumers, and communities.
Thinking Outside the Big Box: Strategies for Healthy Food Retail
Sabrina Wu, HOPE Collaborative
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law and Policy
Brahm Ahmadi, People’s Community Market
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
How can supermarket attraction strategies incorporate food justice principles—community and local ownership, fair labor, health, and sustainability? How can we overcome trade-offs between improving food access and maintaining affordability while supporting a sustainable food system? (Learn about model policies, options for alternative food retail models, and how to engage communities in food retail development and policy.)
Low Income Latino Producer to Consumer Connection
Anne Morse, Adelante Mujeres
Stacey Sobell, Ecotrust
Scott Ellis, Portland State University
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Efforts to identify and find solutions to marketing challenges for low-income Latino farmers in Oregon have resulted in a regional plan for improving market access of low-income underserved farmers that incorporates food security and health issues for low-income consumers of color. Learn to apply this plan in your own community.
Building Your Community Food Security Chain: Public/Private Enterprise Collaboration
Margaret Gifford, Farmer Foodshare
Claire Hermann, Come to the Table, RAFI-USA
Wendy Noel, TROSA Grocery Store
Lizzie Martin, Farmer Foodshare
Sarah Blacklin, Carrboro Farmers Market
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Using the “Pennies on the Pound” system from NC, this workshop will provide participants with tools to design a collaborative system to provide fresh, local food at an affordable price for limited resource-income consumers and food entrepreneurs.
Farmers Market Incentive Program: Planning, Design and Implementation
Michael Dimock or Jezra Thompson, Roots of Change
Alyson Abrami, NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Health Bucks Program
Rachel Chadderdon, Fair Food Network
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00 pm
Farmers’ market incentive programs come in many forms, with a common goal. This session will help you think about how to implement an incentive program in your community, and will include discussion of fundraising, evaluation, and public-private partnerships, and the presentation of a new incentive program toolkit.
Healthy Food Incentives: Their Impact Now and in the Future
Cristina Booker, Abt Associates
Oran Hesterman, Fair Food Network
Michel Nischan, Wholesome Wave
Ricardo Millett, Community Science
Michael Dimock, Roots of Change
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
This session includes presentation/discussion of program design and evaluation of healthy food incentives at farmers’ markets throughout the U.S. It features the CDC evaluation in NYC and a national cluster evaluation led by Wholesome Wave and Fair Food Network, with focus on evaluation methodologies and informing public policy from results.
Power, Race and Labor in the Food System
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Alina Vongasamart, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Marty Kirchner, Brandworkers International
Charlotte Williams, Center for New Community
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Sunday, November 6 10:45am -12:15pm
5 of the 8 worst-paying jobs in the U.S. are in the food system. Come learn about the issues facing food workers and the creative, powerful ways that they are organizing to not only improve their own working conditions, but to transform the food system into a sustainable, just one.
How Working Conditions Affect Food Safety and Public Health
Mia Dell, United Food and Commercial Workers, International
Roman Pinal, UFCW
LaQuita Honeysucker, UFCW
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
The goal for this workshop is to highlight the important role workers play in keeping our food safe. Whether in farm-work, meatpacking, food-processing, or retail, the health and safety of the workers directly impacts the safety of the food Americans purchase and consume.
Healing Scars, Healing Bodies Cancelled
Daaiyah Salaam, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
The Southwest Georgia Project will present its process for engaging rural, Black citizens in a leadership development program that positions them to explore their experiences related to race and food system issues. Lessons learned will be presented including how these leaders were positioned to support a regional food systems development.
Engaging Alternative Populations in Sustainable Agriculture
Angela Mason, Chicago Botanic Garden – Windy City Harvest
Kelli Bush, Evergreen College, Sustainable Prisons Project
Darius Jones, Windy City Harvest
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Alternative populations are often overlooked in building local food systems. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest program and the Evergreen College Sustainable Prisons Project will discuss the challenges, rewards and success stories of garden programs, composting and other sustainable programs within correctional institutions and beyond.
Fair Trade – Certification System for Fair Labor, Food Safety and Environmental Sustainability
Elizabeth Henderson, NOFA and the Agricultural Justice Project
Margaret Reeves, Pesticide Action Network North America
Guadalupe Gamboa, Oxfam America
Ryan Zinn, Organic Consumers Association/Fair World Project
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
The rising popularity of organic and fair trade products reflects growing consumer demand to “shop our values.” We’ll discuss how to create domestic fair trade and innovative projects that provide a voice for workers from seed to table while also allowing access for all to nutritious, culturally appropriate, locally grown food.
Local-Global Connections
Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet, Growing Global Justice
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network North America
Judith Redmond, Full Belly Farm
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Agroecological farming can feed the world and cool the planet. The same transnational agri-food corporations and flawed farm policies strangling the U.S. food system are impoverishing rural communities in the Global South. Hear stories of farmers and activists mobilizing to replace GMOs with climate-friendly agroecological farming & learn how to support global food sovereignty campaigns.
Japan’s Sustainable Food Infrastructure: Pre and Post Disaster
Nina Kahori Fallenbaum, Hyphen magazine/IATP Food & Community Fellows
Hiroki Iwasawa, Chigasaki Local Food Project
Ayumi Kinezuka, Nouminren/Via Campesina Japan
Hiroko Kikuchi, Japanese Ministry of Trade, Economy, and Industry
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Welcome local, organic, and biodynamic Japanese farmers and food distributors, plus those working in policy, to discuss how the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011 have affected the good food movement in Japan.
View from across the Pond: Can Campaigning Deliver System Change?
Alan Hunt, Newcastle University
Destin Joy Layne, GRACE Communications Foundation
Charlotte Millar, WWF-UK
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Despite more mainstream media access in the UK, advocacy campaign success is limited and supermarket power is increasing. Comparing the US to the UK, where collaboration is relatively more common than campaigning, we aim to provoke, engage, and have a “think” on advocacy strategies, system change, & the Farm Bill.
Building a Global Movement: Discussion with Food Sovereignty Prize Honorees
Elias Araujo, The Landless Workers Movement (MST)
Heather Day, Community Alliance for Global Justice (facilitator)
Juan Manuel “Manolo” Moran Madrid, Campesino a Campesino
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers
Samuel Nderitu, Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
People worldwide are taking back their food systems while creating jobs, providing fresh food, preserving the environment, and revitalizing communities. Hear from inspiring leaders from Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, and the US to gain a deeper understanding of what food sovereignty is and how you can support these global struggles.
Movement Building, From Panthers to Pitchforks
It Takes a Movement: Why Social Movements are Key to Food Sovereignty
Sara Mersha, Grassroots International
Elisa Araujo, Landless Workers Movement (MST) – Brazil
Damara Luce, Just Harvest USA/ Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Share concrete food sovereignty strategies (land take-overs, agroecology, community-based food production, worker education and mobilization, boycotts, negotiations, networking) and victories. Learn why movements are needed for real solutions over the long haul. Discuss how movements create social change, work to end hunger, build social justice and food sovereignty.
Farmers and Fishermen Regaining Control of Their Cooperatives
Lisa Griffith, National Family Farm Coalition
Daniel Teague, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
John Peck, Family Farm Defenders
Larry Collins, Crab Boat Owners Association, San Francisco, and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association
Mike Hudson, Hudson Fish, Oakland, and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association
Joel Greeno, Family Farm Defenders
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Producer co-ops were designed to benefit farmers and fishermen through collective bargaining rights, yet today processors’ control of cooperatives are hurting producers and consumers alike. Representatives from dairy, fishing, produce and consumer sectors will describe ways in which they are regaining control of their cooperatives to ensure a fair food economy.
Building Food Democracy: Bridging Urban and Rural Realities
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network
Navina Khanna, LiveReal
George Naylor, National Family Farm Coalition & Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now
Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
How can urban food and farm justice movements work together to achieve a fair, sustainable food system? Urban activists and Midwest farmers will share their lived experiences and personal campaign stories. We’ll explore how to build meaningful bridges between these communities through regional and national campaigns to change U.S. agri-food policy.
CFSC’s Strategic Road Map Review & Discussion
Jeanette Abi-Nader, CFSC Evaluation Program Director
Samina Raja, CFSC Board of Directors
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00am
CFSC’s Strategic Road Map was developed with intensive input by members, Board and staff. In this workshop, we will review the Road Map core strategies and how CFSC’s programs contribute to our mission and theory of change. Participants will also engage in discussion around annual priorities including the transition process to hire a new Executive Director.
Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy on the Food and Farm Bill
Kathy Mulvey, CFSC
Navina Khanna, Live Real
Lydia Villanueva, CASA del Llano
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of direct advocacy and grassroots organizing around the Food and Farm Bill, focusing on a key policy priority for CFSC and allies in 2012. Participants will learn how to set goals, identify targets, and develop effective strategies and tactics–and then put these skills into action.
Community Food Projects Indicators of Success: Results from Community Food Project Grantees
Jeanette Abi-Nader, Community Food Security Coalition
Liz Tuckermanty, USDA/NIFA
Eva Ringstrom, University of Washington
Carey Thornton, Seattle Tilth
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Since 2005 the USDA Community Food Projects program has been collecting cross-program information on the impact of their grantees work. FY10 marked the first year this data included participant impacts. This workshop will explore the implications of these results especially as they relate to the six core value fields of practice outlined in Whole Measures for Community Food Systems.
The Food System – Public Health Interface
Policies for Healthy Farms, Food and People – Opportunities for Collaboration and Advocacy
Christa Essig, CDC
Jenifer Billig, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Becca Klein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Livable Future
Christine Fry, Public Health Law & Policy
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Farm and food policy has broad implications for health including food access and fair markets, institutional purchasing, economic development, and food animal production. The session includes case studies on these issues and through group work provides participants with tools for identifying stakeholders, priorities and strategies for advocacy.
Fostering Health and Equity: Healthcare Models for Changing Food Environments
Gail Feenstra, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis
Lena Brook, Physicians for Social Responsibility, SF Bay Chapter
Elizabeth Sachs, Healthy Food Initiatives
Kathryn Boyle, Kaiser Permanente Community Benefits Program
Danielle Boule, UC Davis
Jeri Ohmart, UC Davis
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
This workshop addresses the role of health care institutions in increasing access to healthy, fresh, local food for low income people. Learn about sustainable procurement, on-site farmers markets, and various innovative outreach and education programs led by health care institutions to address health disparities and food access in their communities.
Food Sovereignty and Public Health: A Movement to Create Change
Kali Cheung, The Pachamama Alliance
Robin Haguewood, Urban Adamah, UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
Think about your current food system in multiple ways. Join us as we interactively explore multiple levels of the food system through environmental justice and public health lenses. Using the principles of food sovereignty and agro-ecology, we will work together to to address multilevel issues of an industrialized food system.
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action: Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Marion Kalb, Community Food Security Coalition
Amy Yaroch, Gretchen Swanson Center for Human Nutrition
Erin MacDougall, King County Health Department
Naomi Butler, County of San Diego
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
This session will explore the successes and tribulations of communities implementing anti-obesity strategies through the federal Communities Putting prevention to Work Program with a focus on sustainability. Hear from CPPW communities in Nebraska, Washington and elsewhere about how specific food access strategies including farmers markets, farm to schools and healthy corner stores.
Access to Healthy Food for Underserved Populations
Sara Padilla, Community Food Security Coalition
Autumn Saxton-Ross, District of Columbia Department of Health
Laila Goldberg, The Food Trust
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Target underserved communities with successful strategies that increase access to healthy foods. Strategies discussed will include farmers markets, food policy council, farm to school programs and healthy food purchasing/healthy corner stores
The Unique Challenges and Solutions of Rural Food Systems
Community Foods Organizing: Building Rural Communities and Food Systems
Sharon Thornberry, Oregon Food Bank
Megan Newell-Ching, Oregon Food Bank
Spencer Masterson, Ten Rivers Food Web
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
Community Foods Organizing is the process of bringing together stakeholders to shape a food system that is more responsive to the needs and assets of a community. Learn about several successful models for rural communities. Break into small groups to address challenges and opportunities unique to rural community food systems.
Tools for Saving the Small Town Grocery Store
Hannah Burton Laurison, Public Health Law & Policy
Steph Larsen, Center for Rural Affairs
Eugene Kim, The Food Trust
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
When small towns lose their grocery store, they also lose jobs, tax revenue and access to healthy food. Presenters will examine and discuss examples of rural residents, farmers, and policymakers supporting economically sustainable, healthy rural food retail and tools to replicate these successes in rural and urban communities.
Credit Access and Its Impacts on Farmers, Communities and Consolidation
Katherine Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition
Ben Burkett, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives/Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Alicia Harvie, Farm Aid
Elanor Starmer, Food and Water Watch
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Panelists discuss outcomes of survey in ‘Don’t Bank On It’. Credit access has serious consequences for farmers, their communities and consolidation in the food system. Farmer- and community-focused solutions, e.g., efforts to control lending through credit unions and CA FarmLink’s credit initiatives, provide hope for rural communities struggling to revive their economies.
Urban Agriculture Practice and Policy
The New Roots Community Farm: Till the Soil, Grow Community Cancelled
Amy Lint, International Rescue Committee
Bilal Muya, Somali Bantu Organization of San Diego
Bob Ou, Cambodian Community
Hermalinda Figuerroa, Proyecto Casa Saludables
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
The New Roots Community Farm supports 85 families who come from all over the world. The 2 acre farm took two years to gain rightful permits, but now serves as the center for city wide land use policy change. Hear community leaders tell their story of success and struggles as they advocate for growing more local, culturally appropriate food.
Using Community-Driven Approaches to Develop Urban Agriculture
Harry Rhodes, Growing Home, Inc
Warren King, WellSpring Ltd
Ron Doetch, Urban Ag Design
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
The workshop presents methods used in Chicago and Milwaukee neighborhoods to engage community stakeholders in strategic discussions around urban agriculture development. Lecture and small group discussions will allow participants an opportunity to share their own experiences and stories about projects that require deep community involvement.
Local Knowledge: Measuring and Monitoring Our Food System
Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete
Tyler Caruso, Seeing Green
Eric Brelsford, Food Census, Brooklyn Food Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to measure, map, and evaluate various components of urban agriculture and food access projects on individual and citywide scales. Food justice advocates and community gardeners often lack the necessary information to organize for change on a very local level. Advocacy for urban cultivation spaces and food access needs to be based on good data, which is where our workshop begins. Open to all levels of experience.
Farm City Q & A
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law & Policy
Betsy Johnson, American Community Gardening Association
Amy Ackerman, National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Recently, an unprecedented wave of local policies that support urban agriculture have been adopted – a farm city policy bumper crop! This session will feature Q & A with our experts and you, the audience! Share your local story and get feedback and resource recommendations for successful policies and ordinances for urban agriculture.
Black & Green: The Story of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Monica White, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network has developed as a leader in addressing the food system needs of the citizens of Detroit. In a lecture/powerpoint format, we will identify the organization’s goals and programs, along with a discussion of the larger historical context of the urban gardening movement in Detroit.
Urban & Community-Based Ag: Growing the Movement, Cultivating Policy Change
Martin Bailkey, Growing Power
Sara Russell, EPA
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law & Policy
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
This workshop will provide an overview of several recently published resources on the topic of urban and community-based agriculture, highlighting successful policies and identifying opportunities for cultivating policy change at the local, state and federal levels.
Youth Changing the Food System
Growing Youth Food Policy Councils, Coalitions and Networks
Zsuzsi Fodor, Vancouver Food Policy Council – Youth Engagement Working Group
Tyler Caruso, New York City Youth Food Council
Caitlin Colson, Meal Exchange
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
This workshop will be hosted by youth from Toronto, New York, and Vancouver currently engaged in activating Youth Food Policy Councils, Coalitions and Networks. We will share our stories and facilitate a rotation of ‘for youth by youth’ kitchen table discussions to open conversation on building the youth food movement.
Beyond Tokenism: Youth Leadership in the Food Justice Movement
Casey Burns, Regional Environmental Council
Grace Duffy, Regional Environmental Council
Hanh Lam, Regional Environmental Council
Amanda DeBrusk, Regional Environmental Council
Julius Jones, Regional Environmental Council
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Youth from YouthGROW, an urban agricultural youth employment, leadership development, and environmental justice program from the Regional Environmental Council in Worcester, MA, will lead a workshop on best practices for promoting youth leadership and empowerment. Join us as we share our youth leadership toolkit, using the cornerstones of consensus and grassroots participatory leadership.
Building a National Student Network: How Partners Engage In Food Systems Change
Tim Galarneau, Real Food Challenge/Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Damara Luce, Just Harvest/Coalition for Immokalee Workers
Kyle Chafer, Unite Here
Kristin Markley, CFSC National Farm to Institution Manager
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
Across the country there are exciting efforts of students working on social justice, fair trade, policy, and community resiliency in the food system. In order to bring these promising pillars of collective might together the Real Food Challenge fosters a dynamic steering committee & network to inform efforts and engage in partner based needs.
Growing New Youth Food Justice Leaders: Storytelling for Organizing
Hai Vo, Live Real
Katie Blanchard, Real Food Challenge / Rural Enterprise Center/Centro de Empresas Rurales
Kyoka Akers, Live Real Real Food Fellow
Jason Patterson, Community Food Advocates, Live Real Real Food Fellow
Brett Ramey, Horagewi/Family Medicine, University of Kansas
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
There is a rising generation of food justice leaders changing their relationship to food, culture, and social justice. This workshop welcomes youth and allies to share their personal stories, the impact of their work, and shared visions toward food and social justice. Build community with growing national youth food justice networks and learn about initiatives like the Youth Food Bill of Rights.
Building Community Power and Local Food Economies: Achieving Food Sovereignty
The Global Land Grab and the Threatened Promise of Food Justice and Food Sovereignty
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First
Elias Araujo, Movimento dos Trabalhodores Rurais Sem Terra
Tanya Kerssen, Food First
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Porfirio Quintana, Honduran Popular Resistance Front, Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition
Bob St. Peter, Food For Maine’s Future and National Family Farm Coalition
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Private companies and governments are alarmingly buying farmland in the Global South, threatening the right to food. The “global land grab” also occurs in US cities and towns, threatening attempts to end poverty through food sovereignty. Social movements are challenging this danger and displacement through creative, grassroots redistributive land reform.
Corporate Power, Movement Building, and the 2012 Food and Farm Bill
Siena Chrisman, WhyHunger
John Peck, Family Farm Defenders
Mia Dell, UFCW
Rosalinda Guillien, Community to Community Development
Adam Scow, Food and Water Watch
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Corporations dominate our food system — with negative impacts for small farmers, workers, consumers, public health, and the environment. Hear from a diverse coalition pushing for changes in the 2012 Food and Farm Bill to break up the corporate stranglehold and build real food democracy – and learn how to get involved!
Building Community Power to Eliminate Food Deserts
Alison Cohen, WhyHunger
Judy Belue, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative
Kelly Watters, Somos la Semilla
Tim Galarneau, Central Coast School Food Alliance
Brooke Smith, WhyHunger
C.W. “Doc” Davis, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
What are practical methods for engaging community members to build a healthy local food system rooted in a strong local economy? Local leaders will share highlights from a new toolkit profiling three “food desert” communities that have formed alliances and networks to implement viable responses to low healthy food access.
Innovation among EFPs: Contributing to Healthy Communities and Local Economies
EFPs have the potential to help revitalize local food systems while providing nutritious food. Based on extensive research and soon-to-be-published guides to innovative programs, this workshop will look at exciting strategies in food sourcing and nutrition education, including connecting food pantries with local farms and sourcing higher quality animal protein.
Voices from the Bay Area
Creating Resilient Food Systems through Policy and Collaboration
Aaron Lehmer, Bay Localize
Ellen Choy, Movement Generation
Johanna Partin, Office of Mayor Edwin M. Lee
Mary Kimball, Yolo County Agriculture & Food Alliance
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
This panel will provide an overview of local food policy strategies, including urban agriculture zoning, food policy councils, and county agriculture networks. Presenters from Oakland Food Policy Council, City of San Francisco, and Yolo County Food System Alliance will discuss their experience crafting inclusive food policy, and approaches to collaborating across sectors.
Perspectives on Dismantling Racism in the Food Movement
The majority of consumers and producers of color in the food system have been historically (and continue to be) harmed by the food system. This workshop explores methods of dismantling racism, and ways organizations and individuals have used these methods in their food system work.
Living in a Food Insecure Community
Nikki Henderson, People’s Grocery
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Food insecure communities have been studied, written about, and serviced by the larger American community. But what is it actually like to LIVE in a food insecure community? This panel explores the resident perspective of individuals living in a variety of food insecure communities ranging from the urban to the rural.
The Elephant in the Room: Examining the Link between Food Access and Health Outcomes
Marjorie R. Freedman, San Jose State University
Raul Lozano, Sacred Heart Community Services
Michelle Bunker-Alberts, Alameda County Medical Center
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
After describing community-based programs that aim to improve intake of healthful foods, the audience will be challenged to examine the link between food access, consumption and health outcomes. Does provision of healthful food ensure consumption? How can we ensure food-insecure individuals receive and consume healthful foods, and have positive health outcomes?
What do Farmers think of your CFS Based marketing project?
Luis Sierra, CA Center for Cooperative Development
Thomas Nelson, Capay Valley Growers
Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited
David Visher, UC SAREP- Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education Program
Richard Firme, Firme Farm
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
You are organizing a farmers market, bundled CSA, or a farm-to-institution project. What do farmers need from you to make these values based supply chains work? Hear from practitioners and farmers who know what counts for the program to work for farmers. The answer isn’t always ‘more money’.
Workshops by Track
During six sessions, participants will have the opportunity to learn new skills and hear about best practices from across the country.
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Workshop Tracks:
Farm to Cafeteria | Developing New Leaders in the Food Movement | Get Cultured: Communications and Art for Food Justice | Improving Access to Healthy Food | Power, Race and Labor in the Food System | Local – Global Connections | Movement Building, From Panthers to Pitchforks | The Food System – Public Health Interface | The Unique Challenges and Solutions of Rural Food Systems | Urban Agriculture Practice and Policy | Youth Changing the Food System | Building Community Power and Local Food Economies: Achieving Food Sovereignty | Voices from the Bay Area
Farm to Cafeteria
Farm to School: Connecting Small Farmers with Low-Income Districts
Diana Abellera, Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Jennifer LeBarre, Oakland Unified School District
Miguel Villlarreal, Novato Unified School District
Torrey Olson, Gabriel Farm & Olsons West
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Farm to School programs are popping up around the nation, and making it work is all about creativity. Hear how food service directors are incorporating more farm fresh produce into the menus and get tips on how to make it work with your school.
Hands-on Cooking School & Innovative School Lunch Menu Planning
Zenobia Barlow, Center for Ecoliteracy
Ann M. Evans, Evans & Brennan, LLC
Jennifer LeBarre, Oakland Unified School District
Georgeanne Brennan, Evans & Brennan, LLC
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45pm
Join award-winning co-authors Georgeanne Brennan and Ann Evans, along with Jennifer LeBarre of Oakland Unified and Zenobia Barlow of the Center for Ecoliteracy, as they lead an interactive, hands-on cooking experience and dialogue using the Center’s new cookbook-guide, Cooking with California Food in K-12 Schools. Complimentary cookbook to all participants.
Growing Farm to Preschool: Bringing the “Farm” to Preschool Settings
Rosa Romero, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College
Stacy Sobell, Ecotrust
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15pm
Sharpen your nutrition and garden-based curricular skills emphasizing local food and farm-based concepts to target preschoolers, parents and teachers through demonstrations and role play. Strategize ways to increase fruit and vegetable access and consumption among this population and communities and how to grow the farm to preschool movement nationally.
Whole Fresh Food in Schools: One Plate At a Time
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00am
Ann Cooper, Food Family Farming Foundation
Chef Timothy Cipriano, New Haven Public Schools
Chef Beth Collins, Food Family Farming Foundation
This session bridges the gap between a desire to implement change and having tools to succeed. Meet, learn, and engage with three leaders in affecting real improvements in school food systems. Participants will be introduced to a free resource that offers recipes, budgets, studies, marketing, purchasing, training, grants and community.
Developing New Leaders in the Food Movement
Money, Power and the Class Dynamics of Fundraising
Elizabeth Ü, Finance for Food
Haile Johnston, Common Market Philadelphia; Center for Progressive Leadership
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Want to develop a deeper understanding of the fundraising process and purpose? Got strong feelings and attitudes about money, power, and class dynamics? Through art, interactive exercises, and pair sharing, participants in this workshop will unpack money myths and stories while learning community-building fundraising skills in a supportive, confidential space.
New Hispanic Leaders for Healthy Communities
Edie Jessup, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program- CCROPP
Lourdes Perez, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Imelda Castellanos, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Jose Arturo Palato, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Adriana Guevara, Central Ca. Regional Obesity Prevention Program-CCROPP
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
¡Este taller es in español! 160 new Hispanic leaders in 8 Central Valley California counties participated in a year-long leadership training in their neighborhoods and emerged to plan their food and built environment, develop access to healthy foods, work with small farmers, and change how they get to healthy food.
Urban Ag and Participatory Education in NYC
Ursula Chanse, Bronx Green-Up/The New York Botanical Garden
Sara Katz, Bronx Green-Up/The New York Botanical Garden
Jane Hodge, Just Food/FarmSchool NY
Lorrie Clevenger, Black Urban Growers/WhyHunger
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
This workshop will explore the role of grassroots organizing and participatory education in building leadership within the urban farming movement in NYC, focusing on FarmSchool NYC. Through group discussions and activities, participants will hear about and experience strategies that they can use in their work.
More than Bricks and Mortar: Food Security, Community Development, and the Role of the Intermediary
Margaret Gee, Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Ashley Jones-Wisner, Greater Kansas City LISC
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Despite the important role of food in the sustainability of every community, issues of food security have not been broadly addressed by the community development industry. Join us for a discussion of how intermediaries can work with local partners to elevate food issues within the community development industry, while bringing new voices and new resources to the table.
Training for Change: Growing Food Justice Leaders from Within
Tracey Patterson, Southeast Food Access (SEFA)
Antonia Williams, SEFA Food Guardians
Kenneth Hill, SEFA Food Guardians
Susana Hennessey-Lavery, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Jazz Vassar, SEFA Food Guardians
Jameela Toups, SEFA Food Guardians
Christina Goette, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Jacob Moody, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
This workshop will explore ways to train and guide new food justice leaders to create positive change within their own communities. The SEFA Food Guardian Project uses popular education and a multi-strategy approach in Bayview Hunters Point, SF. We will identify strategies to build effective, lasting leadership within underserved communities.
Food Policy from Neighborhood to Nation
Baltimore’s Food Justice Initiatives: Urban Agriculture, Virtual Supermarkets and More
Abby Cocke, Baltimore Office of Sustainability
Laura Fox, Baltimore City Health Department
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Learn about the exciting new models for food justice coming out of Baltimore. City government putting out a call for urban farmers to lease public land? Groceries delivered to your local school or library? Collaboration with researchers providing resources and informing policy and zoning changes? Hear all about it!
Uniting the Strengths of the Sweatfree and Food Justice Movements
Liana Foxvog, International Labor Rights Forum
Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Ryan Zinn, Fair World Project
Roman Pinal, United Farm Workers
Chris Bohner, UNITE Here
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
The sweatfree movement has been extremely successful in winning 191 policies for responsible procurement of apparel in cities, states, and school districts around the U.S. Learn lessons from this movement to apply to food purchasing by government and schools so we can improve the conditions for workers, producers, and consumers.
Advocating Beyond Food: Building Unity for a Just and Sustainable Food/Farm System
Don Bustos, National Immigrant Farming Initiative
Helen Dombalis, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Lorette Picciano, Rural Coalition
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Explore the context and content of food justice, as well as, policies that affect the consumer, the farmworker, the rural farmer/rancher, indigenous and urban communities. Build a shared agenda for the 2012 Farm Bill inclusive of the needs of socially-disadvantaged agricultural producers and others historically excluded in the past.
Small Entrepreneurs Gaining Access: Shared Kitchens & Cottage Food Laws
Christina Oatfield, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Janelle Orsi, Sustainable Economies Law Center
Gabriel Cole, Fare Resources
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Learn about strategies for small food entrepreneurs to access kitchens needed to sell food, develop a customer base and test out their business model before owning a commercial kitchen. We’ll talk about sharing commercial kitchens and state laws that allow a limited amount of food to be made in home kitchens commercially.
Community Data and Shared Learning Systems for Food Justice
Christopher Fulcher, Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES)
Hank Herrera, Center for Popular Research, Education and Policy
Roxanne Medina-Fulcher, Community Initiatives
Chris Paterson, Community Initiatives
Wendy Peters Moschetti, WPM Consulting, LLC
Note: this is a three hour workshop
Sunday, November 6 1:15pm – 4:15pm
This session introduces web-based GIS tools that enable users to overlay 7000+ data layers (e.g., food deserts, socio-economics, demographic, transportation, health, education) for any community in the U.S. Participants will make maps as they explore the system and tools for understanding and addressing disparities within their community and regional food systems.
The Farm Bill and Community Food Security
Kathy Mulvey, Community Food Security Coalition
Aisha Amuda, Community Food Security Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
Bring your questions about the Farm Bill, how it relates to community food security, what’s coming down the pike in 2012, and what you can do. We’ll break into small groups to discuss key issues based on your brainstorm. Participants will gain basic knowledge and ideas about how to mobilize their communities and consituencies
Get Cultured: Communications and Art for Food Justice
Moving a Local Food Agenda Through Strategic Messaging
Joanne Matsusaka, Pyramid Communications
Katie Eukel, Fourth Sector Consulting
D-L Wormley, Philadelphia Urban Food & Fitness Alliance (PUFFA)
Ann Mansfield, Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Collaborative
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
Strategic messaging is critical to advancing a local foods agenda—in both local and national policy arenas. But what messaging works? Learn how to work with partners to create a message framework and hear real examples of how strong messaging and collaborative partnerships can lead to concrete policy change.
I Was A Teenage Jalapeño: Creative Youth-Led Media Strategies
Mike Blockstein, Public Matters
Reanne Estrada, Public Matters
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
From the classroom to the corner store, market makeovers feature creative community engagement. Showcasing their work with UCLA CPHHD, East L.A. Renaissance Academy high school students and Public Matters will discuss innovative youth engagement to generate and disseminate media and social marketing materials. Learn strategies, classroom activities and student takeaways.
Social Media 101: A Community Change-Maker’s Guide to the New Media Generation
Haven Bourque, HavenBMedia/CivilEats.com
Naomi Starkman, Civil Eats
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Explore the Power of Social Media: What it is, why it matters, who’s using it for good (and evil), and how it builds community dialogue and promotes information sharing. Includes basic how-to’s, top 10 do’s and don’ts, and case studies of successful campaigns.
Improving Access to Healthy Food
Community-Driven Marketing for Successful Corner Store Conversions
Clare Fox, Community Market Conversion Program, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Cedar Landsman, Community Market Conversion Program, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Elizabeth Stewart, Groundswell
Lawrence DeFrietes, Community Services Unlimited
Heather Fenney Alexander, Community Services Unlimited
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
“If you build it…will they come?” What is the role of community-driven marketing and organizing in sustaining the successful transformation of a corner store? How can corner store conversions inspire participatory community economic development with lasting impact? Three distinct organizations facilitate a dialogue from a national, grassroots and government perspective.
Understanding Motivators and Evaluating SNAP/EBT Incentive Outcomes in Farmers Markets
Migdalia Loyola, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota – Center for Prevention
Amy Gilroy, Oregon Public Health Institute
Richard McCarthy, Market Umbrella
Stacy Miller, Farmers Market Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
SNAP/EBT implementation in farmers markets depends on understanding the self-motivators of farmers and SNAP shoppers. Markets can balance community needs, design incentives that target diverse interests and challenges, and define ‘success’ accordingly. We’ll discuss strategies to evaluate outcomes of SNAP integration and incentives that simultaneously meet the needs of farmers, consumers, and communities.
Thinking Outside the Big Box: Strategies for Healthy Food Retail
Sabrina Wu, HOPE Collaborative
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law and Policy
Brahm Ahmadi, People’s Community Market
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
How can supermarket attraction strategies incorporate food justice principles—community and local ownership, fair labor, health, and sustainability? How can we overcome trade-offs between improving food access and maintaining affordability while supporting a sustainable food system? (Learn about model policies, options for alternative food retail models, and how to engage communities in food retail development and policy.)
Low Income Latino Producer to Consumer Connection
Anne Morse, Adelante Mujeres
Stacey Sobell, Ecotrust
Scott Ellis, Portland State University
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Efforts to identify and find solutions to marketing challenges for low-income Latino farmers in Oregon have resulted in a regional plan for improving market access of low-income underserved farmers that incorporates food security and health issues for low-income consumers of color. Learn to apply this plan in your own community.
Building Your Community Food Security Chain: Public/Private Enterprise Collaboration
Margaret Gifford, Farmer Foodshare
Claire Hermann, Come to the Table, RAFI-USA
Wendy Noel, TROSA Grocery Store
Lizzie Martin, Farmer Foodshare
Sarah Blacklin, Carrboro Farmers Market
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Using the “Pennies on the Pound” system from NC, this workshop will provide participants with tools to design a collaborative system to provide fresh, local food at an affordable price for limited resource-income consumers and food entrepreneurs.
Farmers Market Incentive Program: Planning, Design and Implementation
Michael Dimock or Jezra Thompson, Roots of Change
Alyson Abrami, NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, Health Bucks Program
Rachel Chadderdon, Fair Food Network
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00 pm
Farmers’ market incentive programs come in many forms, with a common goal. This session will help you think about how to implement an incentive program in your community, and will include discussion of fundraising, evaluation, and public-private partnerships, and the presentation of a new incentive program toolkit.
Healthy Food Incentives: Their Impact Now and in the Future
Cristina Booker, Abt Associates
Oran Hesterman, Fair Food Network
Michel Nischan, Wholesome Wave
Ricardo Millett, Community Science
Michael Dimock, Roots of Change
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
This session includes presentation/discussion of program design and evaluation of healthy food incentives at farmers’ markets throughout the U.S. It features the CDC evaluation in NYC and a national cluster evaluation led by Wholesome Wave and Fair Food Network, with focus on evaluation methodologies and informing public policy from results.
Power, Race and Labor in the Food System
Building Worker Power for a Just and Sustainable Food System
Joann Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Alina Vongasamart, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Marty Kirchner, Brandworkers International
Charlotte Williams, Center for New Community
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Sunday, November 6 10:45am -12:15pm
5 of the 8 worst-paying jobs in the U.S. are in the food system. Come learn about the issues facing food workers and the creative, powerful ways that they are organizing to not only improve their own working conditions, but to transform the food system into a sustainable, just one.
How Working Conditions Affect Food Safety and Public Health
Mia Dell, United Food and Commercial Workers, International
Roman Pinal, UFCW
LaQuita Honeysucker, UFCW
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
The goal for this workshop is to highlight the important role workers play in keeping our food safe. Whether in farm-work, meatpacking, food-processing, or retail, the health and safety of the workers directly impacts the safety of the food Americans purchase and consume.
Healing Scars, Healing BodiesCancelledDaaiyah Salaam, Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
The Southwest Georgia Project will present its process for engaging rural, Black citizens in a leadership development program that positions them to explore their experiences related to race and food system issues. Lessons learned will be presented including how these leaders were positioned to support a regional food systems development.
Engaging Alternative Populations in Sustainable Agriculture
Angela Mason, Chicago Botanic Garden – Windy City Harvest
Kelli Bush, Evergreen College, Sustainable Prisons Project
Darius Jones, Windy City Harvest
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Alternative populations are often overlooked in building local food systems. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest program and the Evergreen College Sustainable Prisons Project will discuss the challenges, rewards and success stories of garden programs, composting and other sustainable programs within correctional institutions and beyond.
Fair Trade – Certification System for Fair Labor, Food Safety and Environmental Sustainability
Elizabeth Henderson, NOFA and the Agricultural Justice Project
Margaret Reeves, Pesticide Action Network North America
Guadalupe Gamboa, Oxfam America
Ryan Zinn, Organic Consumers Association/Fair World Project
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
The rising popularity of organic and fair trade products reflects growing consumer demand to “shop our values.” We’ll discuss how to create domestic fair trade and innovative projects that provide a voice for workers from seed to table while also allowing access for all to nutritious, culturally appropriate, locally grown food.
Local-Global Connections
Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet, Growing Global Justice
Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network North America
Judith Redmond, Full Belly Farm
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Agroecological farming can feed the world and cool the planet. The same transnational agri-food corporations and flawed farm policies strangling the U.S. food system are impoverishing rural communities in the Global South. Hear stories of farmers and activists mobilizing to replace GMOs with climate-friendly agroecological farming & learn how to support global food sovereignty campaigns.
Japan’s Sustainable Food Infrastructure: Pre and Post Disaster
Nina Kahori Fallenbaum, Hyphen magazine/IATP Food & Community Fellows
Hiroki Iwasawa, Chigasaki Local Food Project
Ayumi Kinezuka, Nouminren/Via Campesina Japan
Hiroko Kikuchi, Japanese Ministry of Trade, Economy, and Industry
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Welcome local, organic, and biodynamic Japanese farmers and food distributors, plus those working in policy, to discuss how the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster of 2011 have affected the good food movement in Japan.
View from across the Pond: Can Campaigning Deliver System Change?
Alan Hunt, Newcastle University
Destin Joy Layne, GRACE Communications Foundation
Charlotte Millar, WWF-UK
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Despite more mainstream media access in the UK, advocacy campaign success is limited and supermarket power is increasing. Comparing the US to the UK, where collaboration is relatively more common than campaigning, we aim to provoke, engage, and have a “think” on advocacy strategies, system change, & the Farm Bill.
Building a Global Movement: Discussion with Food Sovereignty Prize Honorees
Elias Araujo, The Landless Workers Movement (MST)
Heather Day, Community Alliance for Global Justice (facilitator)
Juan Manuel “Manolo” Moran Madrid, Campesino a Campesino
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers
Samuel Nderitu, Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
People worldwide are taking back their food systems while creating jobs, providing fresh food, preserving the environment, and revitalizing communities. Hear from inspiring leaders from Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, and the US to gain a deeper understanding of what food sovereignty is and how you can support these global struggles.
Movement Building, From Panthers to Pitchforks
It Takes a Movement: Why Social Movements are Key to Food Sovereignty
Sara Mersha, Grassroots International
Elisa Araujo, Landless Workers Movement (MST) – Brazil
Damara Luce, Just Harvest USA/ Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Share concrete food sovereignty strategies (land take-overs, agroecology, community-based food production, worker education and mobilization, boycotts, negotiations, networking) and victories. Learn why movements are needed for real solutions over the long haul. Discuss how movements create social change, work to end hunger, build social justice and food sovereignty.
Farmers and Fishermen Regaining Control of Their Cooperatives
Lisa Griffith, National Family Farm Coalition
Daniel Teague, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
John Peck, Family Farm Defenders
Larry Collins, Crab Boat Owners Association, San Francisco, and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association
Mike Hudson, Hudson Fish, Oakland, and Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Association
Joel Greeno, Family Farm Defenders
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Producer co-ops were designed to benefit farmers and fishermen through collective bargaining rights, yet today processors’ control of cooperatives are hurting producers and consumers alike. Representatives from dairy, fishing, produce and consumer sectors will describe ways in which they are regaining control of their cooperatives to ensure a fair food economy.
Building Food Democracy: Bridging Urban and Rural Realities
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network
Navina Khanna, LiveReal
George Naylor, National Family Farm Coalition & Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now
Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
How can urban food and farm justice movements work together to achieve a fair, sustainable food system? Urban activists and Midwest farmers will share their lived experiences and personal campaign stories. We’ll explore how to build meaningful bridges between these communities through regional and national campaigns to change U.S. agri-food policy.
CFSC’s Strategic Road Map Review & Discussion
Jeanette Abi-Nader, CFSC Evaluation Program Director
Samina Raja, CFSC Board of Directors
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00am
CFSC’s Strategic Road Map was developed with intensive input by members, Board and staff. In this workshop, we will review the Road Map core strategies and how CFSC’s programs contribute to our mission and theory of change. Participants will also engage in discussion around annual priorities including the transition process to hire a new Executive Director.
Grassroots Organizing & Advocacy on the Food and Farm Bill
Kathy Mulvey, CFSC
Navina Khanna, Live Real
Lydia Villanueva, CASA del Llano
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of direct advocacy and grassroots organizing around the Food and Farm Bill, focusing on a key policy priority for CFSC and allies in 2012. Participants will learn how to set goals, identify targets, and develop effective strategies and tactics–and then put these skills into action.
Community Food Projects Indicators of Success: Results from Community Food Project Grantees
Jeanette Abi-Nader, Community Food Security Coalition
Liz Tuckermanty, USDA/NIFA
Eva Ringstrom, University of Washington
Carey Thornton, Seattle Tilth
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Since 2005 the USDA Community Food Projects program has been collecting cross-program information on the impact of their grantees work. FY10 marked the first year this data included participant impacts. This workshop will explore the implications of these results especially as they relate to the six core value fields of practice outlined in Whole Measures for Community Food Systems.
The Food System – Public Health Interface
Policies for Healthy Farms, Food and People – Opportunities for Collaboration and Advocacy
Christa Essig, CDC
Jenifer Billig, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Becca Klein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Livable Future
Christine Fry, Public Health Law & Policy
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Farm and food policy has broad implications for health including food access and fair markets, institutional purchasing, economic development, and food animal production. The session includes case studies on these issues and through group work provides participants with tools for identifying stakeholders, priorities and strategies for advocacy.
Fostering Health and Equity: Healthcare Models for Changing Food Environments
Gail Feenstra, Agricultural Sustainability Institute, UC Davis
Lena Brook, Physicians for Social Responsibility, SF Bay Chapter
Elizabeth Sachs, Healthy Food Initiatives
Kathryn Boyle, Kaiser Permanente Community Benefits Program
Danielle Boule, UC Davis
Jeri Ohmart, UC Davis
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
This workshop addresses the role of health care institutions in increasing access to healthy, fresh, local food for low income people. Learn about sustainable procurement, on-site farmers markets, and various innovative outreach and education programs led by health care institutions to address health disparities and food access in their communities.
Food Sovereignty and Public Health: A Movement to Create Change
Kali Cheung, The Pachamama Alliance
Robin Haguewood, Urban Adamah, UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
Think about your current food system in multiple ways. Join us as we interactively explore multiple levels of the food system through environmental justice and public health lenses. Using the principles of food sovereignty and agro-ecology, we will work together to to address multilevel issues of an industrialized food system.
Communities Putting Prevention to Work in Action: Views from the Field and What’s Ahead
Marion Kalb, Community Food Security Coalition
Amy Yaroch, Gretchen Swanson Center for Human Nutrition
Erin MacDougall, King County Health Department
Naomi Butler, County of San Diego
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
This session will explore the successes and tribulations of communities implementing anti-obesity strategies through the federal Communities Putting prevention to Work Program with a focus on sustainability. Hear from CPPW communities in Nebraska, Washington and elsewhere about how specific food access strategies including farmers markets, farm to schools and healthy corner stores.
Access to Healthy Food for Underserved Populations
Sara Padilla, Community Food Security Coalition
Autumn Saxton-Ross, District of Columbia Department of Health
Laila Goldberg, The Food Trust
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Target underserved communities with successful strategies that increase access to healthy foods. Strategies discussed will include farmers markets, food policy council, farm to school programs and healthy food purchasing/healthy corner stores
The Unique Challenges and Solutions of Rural Food Systems
Community Foods Organizing: Building Rural Communities and Food Systems
Sharon Thornberry, Oregon Food Bank
Megan Newell-Ching, Oregon Food Bank
Spencer Masterson, Ten Rivers Food Web
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
Community Foods Organizing is the process of bringing together stakeholders to shape a food system that is more responsive to the needs and assets of a community. Learn about several successful models for rural communities. Break into small groups to address challenges and opportunities unique to rural community food systems.
Tools for Saving the Small Town Grocery Store
Hannah Burton Laurison, Public Health Law & Policy
Steph Larsen, Center for Rural Affairs
Eugene Kim, The Food Trust
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
When small towns lose their grocery store, they also lose jobs, tax revenue and access to healthy food. Presenters will examine and discuss examples of rural residents, farmers, and policymakers supporting economically sustainable, healthy rural food retail and tools to replicate these successes in rural and urban communities.
Credit Access and Its Impacts on Farmers, Communities and Consolidation
Katherine Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition
Ben Burkett, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives/Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Alicia Harvie, Farm Aid
Elanor Starmer, Food and Water Watch
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
Panelists discuss outcomes of survey in ‘Don’t Bank On It’. Credit access has serious consequences for farmers, their communities and consolidation in the food system. Farmer- and community-focused solutions, e.g., efforts to control lending through credit unions and CA FarmLink’s credit initiatives, provide hope for rural communities struggling to revive their economies.
Urban Agriculture Practice and Policy
The New Roots Community Farm: Till the Soil, Grow CommunityCancelledAmy Lint, International Rescue Committee
Bilal Muya, Somali Bantu Organization of San Diego
Bob Ou, Cambodian Community
Hermalinda Figuerroa, Proyecto Casa Saludables
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
The New Roots Community Farm supports 85 families who come from all over the world. The 2 acre farm took two years to gain rightful permits, but now serves as the center for city wide land use policy change. Hear community leaders tell their story of success and struggles as they advocate for growing more local, culturally appropriate food.
Using Community-Driven Approaches to Develop Urban Agriculture
Harry Rhodes, Growing Home, Inc
Warren King, WellSpring Ltd
Ron Doetch, Urban Ag Design
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
The workshop presents methods used in Chicago and Milwaukee neighborhoods to engage community stakeholders in strategic discussions around urban agriculture development. Lecture and small group discussions will allow participants an opportunity to share their own experiences and stories about projects that require deep community involvement.
Local Knowledge: Measuring and Monitoring Our Food System
Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete
Tyler Caruso, Seeing Green
Eric Brelsford, Food Census, Brooklyn Food Coalition
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to measure, map, and evaluate various components of urban agriculture and food access projects on individual and citywide
scales. Food justice advocates and community gardeners often lack the necessary information to organize for change on a very local level. Advocacy for urban cultivation spaces and food access needs to be based on good data, which is where our workshop begins. Open to all levels of experience.
Farm City Q & A
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law & Policy
Betsy Johnson, American Community Gardening Association
Amy Ackerman, National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
Recently, an unprecedented wave of local policies that support urban agriculture have been adopted – a farm city policy bumper crop! This session will feature Q & A with our experts and you, the audience! Share your local story and get feedback and resource recommendations for successful policies and ordinances for urban agriculture.
Black & Green: The Story of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Monica White, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network has developed as a leader in addressing the food system needs of the citizens of Detroit. In a lecture/powerpoint format, we will identify the organization’s goals and programs, along with a discussion of the larger historical context of the urban gardening movement in Detroit.
Urban & Community-Based Ag: Growing the Movement, Cultivating Policy Change
Martin Bailkey, Growing Power
Sara Russell, EPA
Heather Wooten, Public Health Law & Policy
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
This workshop will provide an overview of several recently published resources on the topic of urban and community-based agriculture, highlighting successful policies and identifying opportunities for cultivating policy change at the local, state and federal levels.
Youth Changing the Food System
Growing Youth Food Policy Councils, Coalitions and Networks
Zsuzsi Fodor, Vancouver Food Policy Council – Youth Engagement Working Group
Tyler Caruso, New York City Youth Food Council
Caitlin Colson, Meal Exchange
Sunday, November 6 2:15-3:45 pm
This workshop will be hosted by youth from Toronto, New York, and Vancouver currently engaged in activating Youth Food Policy Councils, Coalitions and Networks. We will share our stories and facilitate a rotation of ‘for youth by youth’ kitchen table discussions to open conversation on building the youth food movement.
Beyond Tokenism: Youth Leadership in the Food Justice Movement
Casey Burns, Regional Environmental Council
Grace Duffy, Regional Environmental Council
Hanh Lam, Regional Environmental Council
Amanda DeBrusk, Regional Environmental Council
Julius Jones, Regional Environmental Council
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Youth from YouthGROW, an urban agricultural youth employment, leadership development, and environmental justice program from the Regional Environmental Council in Worcester, MA, will lead a workshop on best practices for promoting youth leadership and empowerment. Join us as we share our youth leadership toolkit, using the cornerstones of consensus and grassroots participatory leadership.
Building a National Student Network: How Partners Engage In Food Systems Change
Tim Galarneau, Real Food Challenge/Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Damara Luce, Just Harvest/Coalition for Immokalee Workers
Kyle Chafer, Unite Here
Kristin Markley, CFSC National Farm to Institution Manager
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
Across the country there are exciting efforts of students working on social justice, fair trade, policy, and community resiliency in the food system. In order to bring these promising pillars of collective might together the Real Food Challenge fosters a dynamic steering committee & network to inform efforts and engage in partner based needs.
Growing New Youth Food Justice Leaders: Storytelling for Organizing
Hai Vo, Live Real
Katie Blanchard, Real Food Challenge / Rural Enterprise Center/Centro de Empresas Rurales
Kyoka Akers, Live Real Real Food Fellow
Jason Patterson, Community Food Advocates, Live Real Real Food Fellow
Brett Ramey, Horagewi/Family Medicine, University of Kansas
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
There is a rising generation of food justice leaders changing their relationship to food, culture, and social justice. This workshop welcomes youth and allies to share their personal stories, the impact of their work, and shared visions toward food and social justice. Build community with growing national youth food justice networks and learn about initiatives like the Youth Food Bill of Rights.
Building Community Power and Local Food Economies: Achieving Food Sovereignty
The Global Land Grab and the Threatened Promise of Food Justice and Food Sovereignty
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First
Elias Araujo, Movimento dos Trabalhodores Rurais Sem Terra
Tanya Kerssen, Food First
Tezozomoc, South Central Farmers
Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Porfirio Quintana, Honduran Popular Resistance Front, Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition
Bob St. Peter, Food For Maine’s Future and National Family Farm Coalition
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00pm
Private companies and governments are alarmingly buying farmland in the Global South, threatening the right to food. The “global land grab” also occurs in US cities and towns, threatening attempts to end poverty through food sovereignty. Social movements are challenging this danger and displacement through creative, grassroots redistributive land reform.
Corporate Power, Movement Building, and the 2012 Food and Farm Bill
Siena Chrisman, WhyHunger
John Peck, Family Farm Defenders
Mia Dell, UFCW
Rosalinda Guillien, Community to Community Development
Adam Scow, Food and Water Watch
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Corporations dominate our food system — with negative impacts for small farmers, workers, consumers, public health, and the environment. Hear from a diverse coalition pushing for changes in the 2012 Food and Farm Bill to break up the corporate stranglehold and build real food democracy – and learn how to get involved!
Building Community Power to Eliminate Food Deserts
Alison Cohen, WhyHunger
Judy Belue, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative
Kelly Watters, Somos la Semilla
Tim Galarneau, Central Coast School Food Alliance
Brooke Smith, WhyHunger
C.W. “Doc” Davis, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
What are practical methods for engaging community members to build a healthy local food system rooted in a strong local economy? Local leaders will share highlights from a new toolkit profiling three “food desert” communities that have formed alliances and networks to implement viable responses to low healthy food access.
Innovation among EFPs: Contributing to Healthy Communities and Local Economies
Jessica Powers, WhyHunger
Teresa Snow, Salvation Farms
Tara Pascual, WhyHunger
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00 pm
EFPs have the potential to help revitalize local food systems while providing nutritious food. Based on extensive research and soon-to-be-published guides to innovative programs, this workshop will look at exciting strategies in food sourcing and nutrition education, including connecting food pantries with local farms and sourcing higher quality animal protein.
Voices from the Bay Area
Creating Resilient Food Systems through Policy and Collaboration
Aaron Lehmer, Bay Localize
Ellen Choy, Movement Generation
Johanna Partin, Office of Mayor Edwin M. Lee
Mary Kimball, Yolo County Agriculture & Food Alliance
Monday, November 7 10:00-11:30 am
This panel will provide an overview of local food policy strategies, including urban agriculture zoning, food policy councils, and county agriculture networks. Presenters from Oakland Food Policy Council, City of San Francisco, and Yolo County Food System Alliance will discuss their experience crafting inclusive food policy, and approaches to collaborating across sectors.
Perspectives on Dismantling Racism in the Food Movement
Nikki Henderson, People’s Grocery
Miakoda Taylor, Fierce Allies
Monday, November 7 1:30-3:00 pm
The majority of consumers and producers of color in the food system have been historically (and continue to be) harmed by the food system. This workshop explores methods of dismantling racism, and ways organizations and individuals have used these methods in their food system work.
Living in a Food Insecure Community
Nikki Henderson, People’s Grocery
Tuesday, November 8 1:30-3:00 pm
Food insecure communities have been studied, written about, and serviced by the larger American community. But what is it actually like to LIVE in a food insecure community? This panel explores the resident perspective of individuals living in a variety of food insecure communities ranging from the urban to the rural.
The Elephant in the Room: Examining the Link between Food Access and Health Outcomes
Marjorie R. Freedman, San Jose State University
Raul Lozano, Sacred Heart Community Services
Michelle Bunker-Alberts, Alameda County Medical Center
Tuesday, November 8 8:30-10:00 am
After describing community-based programs that aim to improve intake of healthful foods, the audience will be challenged to examine the link between food access, consumption and health outcomes. Does provision of healthful food ensure consumption? How can we ensure food-insecure individuals receive and consume healthful foods, and have positive health outcomes?
What do Farmers think of your CFS Based marketing project?
Luis Sierra, CA Center for Cooperative Development
Thomas Nelson, Capay Valley Growers
Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited
David Visher, UC SAREP- Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education Program
Richard Firme, Firme Farm
Sunday, November 6 10:45-12:15 pm
You are organizing a farmers market, bundled CSA, or a farm-to-institution project. What do farmers need from you to make these values based supply chains work? Hear from practitioners and farmers who know what counts for the program to work for farmers. The answer isn’t always ‘more money’.