“Planting Seeds for Our Future” Conference ---
Come together to celebrate local food and farming,
network, learn, strengthen collaborations,
and sow the seeds for future action!

Monday, March 26th, 2007, 8:30am-4pm
Exhibition Hall of the Alliant Energy Center
1919 Alliant Energy Center Way, Madison, WI

The registration brochure is available on our website at:
http://www.co.dane.wi.us/foodcouncil/pdf/conferenceBrochure.pdf

 

Join us for a morning panel presentation, “The Dane County Food System: social, environmental, and economic linkages” featuring Dan Geisler (Bread for the World and Hunger Prevention Council of Dane County), Jim Arts (Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection), and Jim Bower (Blue Planet Partners), with moderator Wilda Nilsestuen (Wisconsin  Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters).

 

Dane County Executive, Kathleen Falk, will join us for a lunch of local foods and recognition celebration to honor the “planters”  who help us grow an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable local food system for the Dane County region. Thanks to all of you who submitted nominations!

 

Afternoon workshop sessions are designed to be interactive and  engage  participants in learning and planning for action, and will include:

-          Farm-to-School 101: Getting started at your school

-          Foods for Our Future; new and unusual perennial fruiting plants

-          Obesity Prevention and Public Health: Community Partnerships for Activity and Nutrition Promotion

-          Using Food Stamps at Farmers Markets

-          Dane County Food Waste: how much is there, and where does it end up?

-          Supermarkets selling locally grown foods

-          Fish: A Fresh Look at A Local Food Source

-          Creating a center for sustainable agriculture in Fitchburg

-          Developments in community gardens

-          New immigrant farmers

-          Madison area buy local initiatives

-          Federal and State policy supporting local food systems

-          Farmland preservation at the urban fringe

-          Food Sovereignty 101; healthy food is a basic human right, not just a market commodity

-          The Dane County Food Pantry Network:  How it Works and Why it Helps

-          Madison Public Market

 

Dawn Burgardt

Program Coordinator

Dane County Food Council

210 Martin Luther King Jr., Boulevard – Room 362

Madison, WI 53703

burgardt@...

(608) 266-4540