Creating a Robust, Sustainable & Community Based Food System

March 25, 2017, 9am to 4:30pm

• Growing the next generation of farmers
• Cutting edge technology solutions to support farmers
• Models for growing, processing, and distributing sustainably grown food
• Climate change and its impact on farming
• Farmland access-matching farmers to farmland

Keynote speaker:  Philip Ackerman-Leist, Professor of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, Green Mountain College, VT; farmer, and author of Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems.