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Colorado
Who Grows Your Food? Our Field Trip to the Family Table Farm Visit WebsiteRecurring: weekly
Mon, Jun 7th, 2010 - Wed, Aug 4th, 2010
June marks the beginning of our Summer Program. Children will recieve a weekly selection of local, naturally grown produce from The Family Table Farm; we will use the produce to teach the children basic cooking techniques and to produce simple dishes. Children will be going out to visit the farm in order to learn more about where their food comes from and how it is grown; they will also maintain an heirloom vegetable garden at the school. Parents also have the option of purchasing a CSA share from The Family Table Farm; shares can be picked up on Wednesdays after 4pm at the school. For more information about the program, please contact The Family Table Farm at www.thefamilytablefarm.com or visit our blog at www.bloommontessori.blogspot.com
Contact: Abigail Miller, 303/776-8173
Maryland
Maryland Farm to School Video Contest Visit WebsiteMon, Jul 12th, 2010 - Wed, Sep 8th, 2010
The Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Jane Lawton Maryland Farm-to-School program challenges students to create an original video answering the following question:
In terms of food, what does the word “local” mean to you?
Students are encouraged to reflect on how eating locally affects Maryland farmers, the community, and themselves. Students may consider the following questions:
Have you ever met a Maryland farmer?
Have you ever been to a Maryland farm?
What is your favorite farm-grown food?
Contestants are encouraged to be creative! Visit a local farm and learn what farmers do
Contact: Emilie Corcoran
National
National Children & Youth Garden Symposium Visit WebsiteRecurring: yearly
Thu, Jul 22nd, 2010 - Sat, Jul 24th, 2010
The American Horticultural Society's 18th Annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium July 22-24, 2010 Pasadena, CA Hosted by Descanso Gardens, Garden School Foundation, The Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Kidspace Children’s Museum, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, and the University of California Common Ground Garden Program Keynote speakers: Alice Waters, Sam Levin, and Roger Swain The restoration we seek in gardens is more essential than ever, but gardens are also sources of healthy food, environmental protection and personal fulfillment. The garden can be an incubator for fostering engaged citizens. For children and youth, a garden can be a science lab, art studio, kitchen, gathering place, theater of the imagination, a special place to explore the world. Learn how to create and use gardens to provide dynamic environments for experimentation, social engagement, self-expression, and connection to the natural world. Hear from youth, the adults in their lives, and national experts about the vital role of gardens in the lives of today’s youth. Symposium attendees will: * Participate in the only national symposium that explores the positive impact of gardens in the lives of children and youth * Meet and learn from leading youth garden experts * Receive useful and relevant project, curriculum, design and garden management ideas * Explore the gardens and programs of the Symposium hosts * Participate in 3 dynamic days of workshops, lectures, poster sessions and field trips * Network and share your own expertise with children’s gardening advocates from across the nation
Contact: , (703) 768-5700 x137
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Harvest for Students Week 2010 Visit WebsiteMon, Sep 27th, 2010 - Fri, Oct 1st, 2010
Schools will celebrate Mass. Harvest for Students Week 2010. Purchase local foods for the students from local farmers. Organize farm tours for food service staff. Have a student recipe contest using local produce. Please email your ideas and questions about how you plan to celebrate the Week to mafarmtoschool@gmail.com.
Contact: Kelly Erwin
New York
Growing Health 2010 – Common Ground: Farms Food & Health Conference Visit WebsiteTue, Oct 5th, 2010 - Tue, Oct 5th, 2010
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Growing Health 2010 - Common Ground: Farm, Food & Health
Event Details
Date(s) & Time(s)::
October 5, 2010 8:30 AM
Location: Binghamton Regency
Phone: 607-692-7669
Email: jstalker@ruralhealthnetwork.org
Link: http://www.ruralhealthnetwork.org
Event Description
August 12, 2010
Register for Growing Health 2010
Back by popular demand, Growing Health 2010 – Common Ground: Farms Food & Health kicks off with a full day conference on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 8:30 AM at the Binghamton Regency Hotel and Conference Center in Binghamton, NY. The conference is immediately followed by an evening local food tasting from 5:30 – 9:00 PM.
Learn about the dynamic connections between food, farms, and health, and how these connections affect you. Growing Health 2010 offers something for everyone - educators, food service providers, public health advocates, community leaders, farmers, interested citizens, and anyone in between. Choose from 12 workshops in any of four diverse topic areas (“tracks”): Farm-to-School; Navigating to Local Food & Health; Food Sovereignty – “What is a Local Food Citizen?”; and Local Farms & Foods for Environmental, Economic, & Community Health.
Contact: , 607-692-7669
Vermont
New England Environmental Education Alliance Conference-- Designing our Shared Future Visit WebsiteThu, Oct 21st, 2010 - Sat, Oct 23rd, 2010
Join us in Vermont in 2010 as we merge the New England Environmental Education Alliance (NEEEA) and Promise of Place (POP) conferences, bringing together a wide circle of people who, in some capacity in their work or recreation, connect people with the environment. We ALL are educating about the environment— from town planners to public health workers, farmers to artists, engineers to hunters and sportsmen, builders and designers to land trusts and historians to energy innovators. We recognize that the unique overlaps of such groups are important in the security and health of our future environment. We all play a special role in catalyzing the learning that moves individuals of any age to act in their communities with care and understanding: to create, to cultivate, to collaborate.
Keynote speakers will include Dana Hudson, the Northeast Regional Lead for the National Farm to School Network, where she connects people with both their human and natural communities. She facilitates farmer to school relations throughout the northeastern states. She has spoken at many conferences about agriculture and the connection we have with our food including those of National Farm to Cafeteria, Society of Nutrition Education and Northeast Farm to School, among others.
Contact: Susan Quincy, 203-734-2513
Massachusetts
Farmer-to-Farmer Conference Visit WebsiteThu, Dec 9th, 2010 - Thu, Dec 9th, 2010
If you are a diversified direct-market farmer looking to expand your farm businesses through networking with peers to learn new skills, this conference is for you!
The conference will provide:
Farm Business Expertise: farmers will learn from seasoned experts and from each other about how to maximize farm business enterprise potential.
Panel Discussions: Speaker panels will cover topics in the areas of soil fertility, farm business and financial planning, strategies for ensuring the health of livestock, and building sustainable communities around food.
Peer to Peer Learning: a facilitated World Café discussion will give farmers a chance to choose discussion topics of interest on site and share best practices. Enjoy a networking lunch and a farmer-to-farmer networking reception.
Good Food and Drink: enjoy a networking lunch and a farmer-to-farmer networking reception.
Contact: Kimberley Fitch, 978-654-6745