March 2016

Food Hubs, Food Security, Food Systems, Processes & Practices, Production, Retail, Supply Chains Adam Diamond, James Barham – U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service This report examines the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of eight diverse food value chains to glean practical lessons about how they operate, the challenges they face, and how they take advantage of emerging opportunities for marketing differentiated […]

NESAWG Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group The Region’s Food and Farm Network Publication Food Access, Funding/Financing/Lending Brian Lang, Caroline Harries, Miriam Manon, Jordan Tucker, Eugene Kim and Sara Ansell of The Food Trust; Pat Smith of The Reinvestment Fund This handbook lays out a step-by-step approach to developing state and local policies that encourage the […]

University of Connecticut, Lewis B. Rome Commons, Storrs UConn Extension is sponsoring the 2016 Garden Conference on Friday, March 18, 2016. The conference will be held at the University of Connecticut, Lewis B. Rome Commons in Storrs, CT.  The 2016 UConn Garden Conference features an exciting lineup of top national speakers and local experts on various aspects […]

March 19, 2016 CLiCK – 41 Club Road, Windham, CT Meet a farmer, create a relationship, build community. Join Grow Windham and get to know your local CT farmers at the Windham Community Food Network’s “Know Your Farmer Fair”.  Find a CSA, farm stand, pick your own, or a farm with bulk produce to sell. […]

March 19, 2016 Frontier Regional High School, South Deerfield THE WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS MASTER GARDENER ASSOCIATION’S Spring Gardening Symposium – Nourish the Planet One Garden at a Time FEATURING Karen Bussolini, speaking on Survival in the Darwinian Garden: Planting the Fittest Sooner or later, most of us gardeners fall in love with a blue poppy that would rather be […]

March 9, 2016 Holyoke Community College Kittredge Center Room 303, 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke CISA (Community Involved In Sustaining Agriculture) will hold a ten-workshop series on Reducing Risk & Increasing Profitability with Sound Decision Making starting in January. This series will provide farmers and business owners with sound business decision-making practices to reduce their financial risk. These […]

March 8, 2016 Curry Student Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Local Food Buyers and Producers are Invited to Meet and Begin Doing Business. The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is offering our 5th Local Food Trade Shows. The 2016 Local Food Trade Shows are designed to facilitate connections and stimulate business relationships between producers […]

March 12, 2016 Northeastern University, Boston, MA EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: $50 The annual Massachusetts Urban Farming Conference (UFC) is designed to advance the opportunities and address the barriers involved in cultivating a resilient and thriving Urban Farming sector. The UFC is a multi-sector stakeholder forum designed to share information regarding what is currently happening in […]

Conference Main Page | Conference Schedule Pre-Conference Sessions | Plenaries Workshops | Discussion & Work Groups Mixers & Meal Discussions Keynote Speaker Shirley Sherrod Presenter Bios | Bookshelf | Sponsorships Session Resources | Conference Recap The 2015 Conference – Putting MOVE in the Movement! Civil rights, labor, women’s rights—the movements that transformed our world can […]

NESAWG Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group The Region’s Food and Farm Network Old US Mint, New Orleans, LA Slow Fish 2016 in New Orleans will be both a convening of Slow Fish delegates from around the world and also a public seafood festival. The conference portion of Slow Fish will be held primarily in the […]

MICHAEL ROZYNE, CHAIR Michael Rozyne lives in Middleborough, Massachusetts. He is the founder and executive director of Red Tomato, a decentralized food hub in the Northeast representing forty Northeast fruit and vegetable growers. Before that, Rozyne was cofounder of Equal Exchange. ONIKA ABRAHAM Onika lives in Brooklyn, New York. A founding member of Black Urban Growers, Onika has had her hands deep in soil for […]

Brainstorming Session for a New York Action Plan Please join the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York for a brainstorming session to create a New York Organic Action Plan! Find out more Brainstorming Session for a New York Action Plan Please join NOFA-NY for a brainstorming session to create a New York Organic Action […]

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Saratoga Hilton,Saratoga Springs, NY GOOD HARD WORK: Ecosystems, Economics, Energy, & Equity In January 2016, NOFA-NY will host its 34th annual Organic Farming & Gardening Conference. The theme for the conference – “Good Hard Work: Ecosystems, Economics, Energy, & Equity” – honors farmers and farm workers and the invaluable positive impact organic farming has on […]