FSNYC  
Food Systems Network NYC Newsletter
   March 2011
In This Issue
March Open Networking Meeting
Interview with City Food Policy Coordinator Kim Kessler
Farm Bill 1.03
Food Almanac Recap
Food Almanac Video
Raw Milk Cheese
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Guests at the Food Alamanac

Guests Mingle at the Food Almanac

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Contributors

Special thanks to the following FSNYC members and friends for their contributions to this month's website and newsletter: Jenny Dirksen, Share Our Strength; Thomas Forster, New School; Angela Miller, Consider Bardwell Farm; Anna Mumford, Letitia Productions; Ed Yowell, Slow Food NYC; Carolyn Zezima, NYC Foodscape.

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MARCH OPEN NETWORKING MEETING  

 

Join us at noon on Tuesday, March 8th for a tour of La Marqueta, the recently renovated market space in East Harlem, which houses the newly opened kitchen incubator run by Hot Bread Kitchen.

Afterward, we will make our way over to the East Harlem Asthma Center for our program, which will feature a panel discussion on the newly proposed USDA standards for school meals and how they will impact food quality. The discussion will be moderated by Jenny Dirksen of Share Our Strength.

Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Time: 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location: Meet at La Marqueta
1607 Park Avenue New York, NY 10029

East Harlem Asthma Center
161-169 East 110 St
New York, NY 10029

For more information, contact [email protected]

Suggested donation: $5 for non-members, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Avoid the fee by joining now! Visit: http://foodsystemsnyc.org/joinnow

Q&A with Kim Kessler, the City's New Food Policy Coordinator 
 
Introducing the newly appointed New York City Food Policy Coordinator: Kim Kessler. Read this great interview conducted by Ed Yowell to learn more about Ms. Kessler and what she hopes to accomplish in her new role, as well as some of the challenges she faces as she takes over this important position.
Farm Bill 1.03

For the latest installment in the series, Thomas Forster discusses the takeaways from organizing in New York for the Farm Bill in 2008, and some of the important lessons learned as the city begins designing a platform for the next Farm Bill.
Audience at The NYC Food Almanac
Audience at the Food Almanac
Food Almanac 2011 Recap

On February 2nd, Food Systems Network NYC in collaboration with the Food for Thought series, presented the first ever "NYC Food Almanac: Forecasting the Year Ahead in Food and Farm Policy and Politics." A panel of experts made their predictions for what they expect to see happen in food policy in 2011, read what they had to say in this article written by Carolyn Zezima.
Forecasting the Year Ahead in Farm and Food Policy Video

Meet the Food Almanac panelists in this wonderful video, created by Anna Mumford of Letitia Productions, and hear what they had to say about their predictions for farm and food policy in the year ahead.
Consider Bardwell Farm Cheese
Consider Bardwell Farm Cheese
Raw Milk Cheese

In this moving piece, Angela Miller of Consider Bardwell Farm in Vermont describes the many sanitation techniques employed in cheese-making and the looming threat to artisan cheeses and many dairy businesses if raw milk cheese production were to be banned in the United States.  
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Analyzing Regional Foodsheds and
Local Food



Just Food CSA Conference 

March 4, 2011
9am - 4:00pm


March 5, 2011
9am - 4:00pm  


The Greenhorns Documentary Film Screening

 
March 7, 2011
7:00 - 11:00pm
  
Gasland Screening at The Commons

 
March 13, 2011
7:00 - 9:00pm


 
A Citywide Assessment of Obesity in
Minority Populations



No Farms No Food Rally & Lobby Day 
March 24, 2011
7:00 - 8:30pm


March 30, 2011   

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