April 19, 2018 9am – 1pm Hofstra’s Student Center Theatre 151

Keynote Speaker: Mark Winne has worked for 40 years as a community food activist, writer, and trainer. From organizing breakfast programs for low-income children in Maine to developing innovative national food policies in Washington, DC, Winne has dedicated his professional life and writing to enabling people to find solutions to their own food problems as well as those that face their communities and the world.

Other panels/speakers:

Existing Framework related to our local food system
NY Farm Bureau
Suffolk County- August Ruckdeschel
Present systems
Restoration Farm
LI Greenmarket Inc.
Long Island Regional Seed Consortium
Blindbat Brewery
Importance of local agriculture to Health and Education
Orkestai Farms
Blossom Sustainable Development
Waldorf School Garden- Jeannine Davis
Suburban Agriculture Forming Communities
Liberty Village Veteran’s Garden
TOH Conservation and Waterways -Shellfish
Cornell Cooperative Extension – Nassau

More information online here!