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CFSC’s Conference Material available online
The Community Food Security Coalition is “a non-profit 501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability.”
CFSC held their 13th annual conference in Des Moines, Iowa in mid-October. They now have some of the conference workshop material available online here. Although I didn’t attend this conference - my conference of the year was instead the American Community Gardening Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio - the CFSC had really tempting and wonderful workshops. For example: Fresh, Local Food for ALL: Increasing Access to and Diversity Within CSA; Reduce Waste/Reduce Hunger in Your Community; Farm Business Incubation in City Neighborhoods; Community Food Processing & Culinary Job Training.
I’ll keep you posted about these conferences as more details are available. I think next year’s CFSC will be held in New Orleans in fall; the ACGA will probably be August in Atlanta.
Meanwhile, another great - and almost-local - conference is the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm conference. “Growing with Integrity, Eating with Intention” will be held in Granville, Ohio February 13th & 14th, 2010. Keynote speakers are Joel Salatin and Ann Cooper.
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