Food Justice Series
Thursday September 22, 2011 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Busboys and Poets 14th and V
Accokeek Foundation in Partnership with the Rural Coalition and National Immigrant Farming Initiative
Free and Open to All - Suggested Donation $5
Thursday, September 22, 2011 – The next installment in the popular Food Justice Series will be held at Busboys and Poets on 14th and V St, NW DC. Speakers will lead a lively discussion about building local, just food systems. We will discuss those initiatives that work to bring fresh and local foods into restaurants and communities, urban neighborhoods and institutional settings. We will also discuss those programs that work with under-served and immigrant farmers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Panelists will include Mapy Alvarez of the National Immigrant Farming Initiative speaking about their partnership with the Accokeek Foundation working on the Immigrant Farmer Incubator Program; Holly Freishtat, Food Policy Director for the Baltimore City Department of Planning; Jeremiah Lowery from Common Good City Farm, and Margaret Morgan-Hubbard as well as Christina Melendez from ECO City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland. The Food Justice Series spotlights the issues that affect food justice on a local and global scale. From the challenges to building local and just food systems to the threat that genetically-modified foods can pose to our environment and our health, this series of four open-to-all events brings together farmers, policymakers, community leaders, and advocates to cultivate insight and conversation about the pressing matters of food justice that each of them witnesses firsthand.
Thursday September 22, 2011 6:00 to 8:00 pm at Busboys and Poets 14th and V
Accokeek Foundation in Partnership with the Rural Coalition and National Immigrant Farming Initiative
Free and Open to All - Suggested Donation $5
Thursday, September 22, 2011 – The next installment in the popular Food Justice Series will be held at Busboys and Poets on 14th and V St, NW DC. Speakers will lead a lively discussion about building local, just food systems. We will discuss those initiatives that work to bring fresh and local foods into restaurants and communities, urban neighborhoods and institutional settings. We will also discuss those programs that work with under-served and immigrant farmers in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Panelists will include Mapy Alvarez of the National Immigrant Farming Initiative speaking about their partnership with the Accokeek Foundation working on the Immigrant Farmer Incubator Program; Holly Freishtat, Food Policy Director for the Baltimore City Department of Planning; Jeremiah Lowery from Common Good City Farm, and Margaret Morgan-Hubbard as well as Christina Melendez from ECO City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland. The Food Justice Series spotlights the issues that affect food justice on a local and global scale. From the challenges to building local and just food systems to the threat that genetically-modified foods can pose to our environment and our health, this series of four open-to-all events brings together farmers, policymakers, community leaders, and advocates to cultivate insight and conversation about the pressing matters of food justice that each of them witnesses firsthand.
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