June 26 Event to Focus on the Interest in Growing Local Grains

June 26 Event to Focus on the Interest in Growing Local Grains — Come discover whether a grain enterprise can work for your farm—

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Book Club: Kitchen Literacy

Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vileisis is the story of how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back. It chronicles profound changes in how Americans have shopped, cooked, and thought about food from the eighteenth-century through today. Our changing awareness of food and nature itself has left us dependant on advertisers and government claims without knowing enough about food’s origins. Today the industrial food system means that most food travels 1,500 mi from farm to plate. Industrial production of food has become so convenient and has resulted in a host of environmental and human health problems. In response, a movement towards eating local and organic food has gained ground. By revealing the history of how we’ve known and not known our foods, Kitchen Literacy has led us to think differently about what we eat and where it comes from.

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Farm-Based Educators Tour

Tour three farm-based education centers in the Northern New Jersey region.

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NOFA Summer Conference

A weekend of learning, networking & fun. Transform the food system August 14-16, 2015 in Amherst, MA.

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Farm to Institution New England: Building A Network

Publication

Farm to Institution, Farming, Local and Regional Food Systems, Processes & Practices, Supply Chains

Authors: Melissa Deas, Consensus Building Institute

This report was developed to tell the story of Farm to Institution New England (FINE) and to better understand how network organizations can be an effective means for change.

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NESAWG’s Annual ITAR Conference

Our annual conference is widely regarded as the conference for anyone doing food system change work in any Northeast state. Hundreds of practitioners convene not only workshops, plenaries, and networking, but to roll up their sleeves and do the real work needed to create a just and fair regional food system. Youth, academics, farmers, advocates, entrepreneurs, and organizers all find a home at NESAWG.

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TEN NOTABLE RESOURCES FOR CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATION IN FOOD SECURITY

2017

Publication

Food Security, Food Systems

Cases, articles, tools, and reports that tackle topics ranging from summer meals for youth to creating sustainable food systems to state and local health policy making and more. Visit http://intersector.com/lists/food-security/.

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Uncommon Fruits for Backyard and Market

NOFA MASS will be hosting another installment of the Webinar Series – Inspiring Ideas from Experts in the Field

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Evaluation planning for your BFRDP grant

New Entry’s Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Grant Program (BFRDP) Webinar series continues with our next topic: EVALUATION

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Food Systems Planning Notes – 2015 Conference

• Food Systems, Local and Regional Food Systems

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