** WEATHER ALERT**
Snow is falling in the North Country, however the summit is STILL ON! Drive safe, and see you there!
Join us for the third annual food summit at the W!ld Center
brought to you by the North Country Food Justice Working Group
THURSDAY, February 27th, 2020. 9am - 5pm
The Wild Center | 45 Museum Drive, Tupper Lake, NY
KEY SPONSORS
The W!ld Center
Adirondack Council
ADK Action
Adirondack Foundation
The HUB
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Austin Frerick
Austin is the Deputy Director of the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University, an initiative established to generate and disseminate scholarship to impact competition enforcement and policy. He is currently working on a book that calls for restoring the balance of power in America’s food system in favor of farmers, workers, and small businesses. The book is inspired by an article he originally published in The American Conservative entitled “To Revive Rural America, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System” that has since been republished in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Civil Eats, and The Progressive Populist.
Austin also organized the “Heartland Forum” in Storm Lake, Iowa, the first candidate event of the 2020 presidential campaign. The forum brought attention to the impact of economic concentration on rural America. He previously worked as an economist at the United States Department of the Treasury and as a researcher at the Congressional Research Service. His research as been referenced in The Washington Post and The New York Times and published in Tax Notes and the National Tax Journal.
Austin is an Iowa native and a graduate of Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Learn more at www.austinfrerick.com
2020 Theme: Poverty and Food
Previous Food Justice Summit conferences brought together activists, farmers, consumers, and educators to speak about advocacy, politics, and grassroots organizing. This year’s summit singles out a particular strand of these previous broad analyses: poverty and food. This theme reflects the urgency about inequalities in our world, and invites conference participants to work collectively as problem-solvers. We seek to identify obstacles and successful initiatives that address the intersection of poverty and food: activism, institutional change, and policy.
Local Farmers: What conditions are necessary for local farmers to be economically sustainable? What challenges do farmers identify that interfere with the affordability of their products? What laws and policies must change to address economic inequality of farm labor, especially migrant farm labor?
Students: What is the inside story about food insecurity on college campuses? How is this problem best addressed, and by whom? We invite students to share what they are learning about poverty and food in their academic courses, service projects, and internships.
Teachers: K-12 educators share their innovative strategies, methods, readings, and lesson plan content for teaching about poverty, inequality, and food.
Health Professionals: What challenges are health professionals facing that fall within the arena of poverty and food? What initiatives are successful in meeting these challenges?
Reports from the front line—food bank directors, food shelf managers, volunteers will speak about the immediate problems that affect their work. What are best practices that they can recommend to others? Do charity solutions to food insecurity impede or interfere with justice solutions?
SCHEDULE
8am - 9am. Registration
9am - 10:30am. Opening Remarks / Keynote
10:45am - 12:15pm. Morning Breakout Sessions
Farm Bill 101
Panel: Day in the (financial) life of a small farmer
Panel: Food Pantry 101 - Food Insecurity on the College Campus
Local Food & Rural Food Insecurity: Challenges and Opportunities in Expanding Access to High-Quality Food
Food Justice Education: Kindergarten to College
12:30pm - 1:15pm. Lunch
1:30pm - 2:45pm. Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Agriculture and the Green New Deal
Food, Farming and Government Panel: View from the front line
Well Fed Essex County Collaborative Panel
Adirondack Food Pantries
Saranac Lake’s Community School Initiative
3:00pm - 4:00pm. Discussions
Considerations for the next Farm Bill, the Green New Deal and NY’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Facilitated by Austin Frerick
How can we continue to strengthen linkages between the food insecure and food producers in the North Country? Facilitated by Diane Fish, Deputy Director Adirondack Council.
Food Justice in the North Country: future needs & opportunities? Facilitated by Tatiana Abatemarco, Bennington College; Beth Dixon, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, SUNY Plattsburgh
Starting a Food not Bombs chapter in your town, school or campus, with Burlington Food not Bombs. Humon Heidarian, Masters of Public Administration, UVM; Lindsay Barbieri, Gund Institute Graduate Fellow, UVM; Sam Bliss, Gund Institute Graduate Fellow, UVM. Members of Food Not Bombs Burlington.
4:15pm - 5:00pm Closing Remarks
Food Justice Summit Sponsorship: Would you like to sponsor the upcoming summit? All sponsorships of $100 or more will be recognized in marketing materials. $500 Event Sponsors and above will also be included on T-shirts and conference materials. Key Sponsor logos will be featured in all media communications and prominently mentioned on all marketing and conference materials. View the full sponsorship menu HERE.
Click the button below to purchase a sponsorship at any level. Please email info@craigardan.org with questions.
THANK YOU to our SPONSORS
CRAIGARDAN
ESSEX FARM INSTITUTE
WHITTEN FAMILY FARM
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
ADIRONDACK HARVEST
JOHN BROWN LIVES!
HAMILTON COLLEGE ADIRONDACK PROGRAM
CAMP TREETOPS / NORTH COUNTRY SCHOOL / ROCK-E HOUSE & BASECAMP
HUB ON THE HILL
ASGAARD FARM & DAIRY
BLUE MOUNTAIN CENTER
TRIPLE GREEN JADE FARM
SUNY PLATTSBURGH DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
ADIRONDACK NORTH COUNTRY ASSOCIATION
ADIRONDACK DIVERSITY INITIATIVE
KEESEVILLE FARMACY
HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK
REBER ROCK FARM
POTSDAM FOOD CO-OP / THE CARRIAGE HOUSE BAKERY
Sponsorships make all of this possible! Our goal is to keep the registration fee as LOW as possible for everyone.
2020 REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Fill out the registration form below, click SUBMIT, then select PAY ONLINE.
If you would like to attend but cannot purchase a ticket, a number of sponsored tickets are available. Please email us at info@craigardan.org.
** BE SURE TO CLICK SUBMIT above before clicking PAY ONLINE below**
The Food Justice Working Group (FJWG) is a coalition of nonprofit and for-profit organizations, community members, local businesses, farmers and farm workers, and government agencies who have come together to start the conversation about creating a more equitable food system in the North Country.
The group seeks to address our region's unique issues of accessibility, inclusivity, nutrition and justice from field to fork.
What can you do to help?
The FJWG is looking for additional partners, sponsors, and individuals who are interested in supporting the group’s work and participating in the summit. The FJWG wants input from all community members! Please contact us at northcountryfjwg@gmail.com for more information and to get involved.
Fill out our online survey and help us plan!
Learn more and stay in touch by signing up below: