Growing A Sustainable Community: Sustainable Food Systems (1)

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Acting & Planning As If the Future Mattered

Broome Community College
April 18, 2009

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Statement from the Organizers:

Across the nation and the world, the distance between farmers and consumers is growing, and both groups are increasingly struggling to make ends meet. However, there is a growing movement to create a food system that meets the needs of all of its participants - a food system that is environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. This plenary brings together a variety of individuals representing different sectors of the food system to discuss the current state of our food systems and their vision for how we can create a sustainable food system in our community.

Moderator: Amelia LoDolce, Sustainable Development Planner, City of Binghamton

Panelists: Clifford Crouch, Assemblyman, NYS 107th District; Lisa Bloodnick, Bloodnick Family Farm in Apalachin; Kacy Telfer, Director fo Programs & Agency Services of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier; Ray Denniston, BOCES Special Project Coordinator for Food Services

Sponsors: Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition, Broome Community College Center for Civic Engagement

Keyword: NOFA

Lunch graciously provided by Whole in the Wall Restaurant.

Slow Food Nation
In this book, Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini shows us how to take control of what and how we eat. Drawing on ancient food wisdom and culinary traditions from Mongolia to Sri Lanka, it's the recipe for a new and better way of living based on sustainable agriculture, human rights, and the pure joy of deliciously healthy fresh edibles. USA.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Overflowing with the same illuminating insight and graceful beauty that mark her award-winning fiction, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver's first foray into nonfiction details her family's year-long quest to eat only locally produced foods. It's an endlessly fascinating, frequently funny rumination on everything from the industrial food chain to turkey mating. Its fact- and recipe-filled pages are part memoir, part expos, and part passionate call to restore the American kitchen and the farms that feed it to sustainable health.

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