Farming Our Future: Food - Farms - Community - Succession: a conference
Saturday February 22, 2014 9 am - 4pm
Taconic Hills Central School District, 73 County Road 11A, Craryville, NY
Workshops repeat two times during the day. The first session is at 11:15 am, the second begins approximately 2:00 pm. The full agenda can be found on the homepage.
The Workshop on Farm to Chef Success features Berkshire Grown members:
& John Brusie, Vice President, Operations Ginsberg's Foods
Fresh Fest Film Series
Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA
Friday, 2/28 through Sunday, 3/2
A Food and Farm Film Festival
Films about food, farming, culture and community. Free to attend. All events take place at Images Cinema unless otherwise noted.
February 28 at 5pm: A Place at the Table March 1, 10:30am - 6:15pm: TEDx Manhattan: Changing the Way We Eat (Wege Auditorium) March 1 at 3pm: After Winter, Spring March 1 at 5pm: Soul Food Junkies March 2 at 3pm: Leviathan
WATCH at Williams College: TEDx Manhattan: Changing The Way We Eat
TEDx Manhattan: Changing The Way We Eat will be a live stream of the TEDx event in Manhattan, at Wege Auditorium, Williams College. Each speaker gives an 12 minute presentation on a particular topic.
10:30am-12:30pm: Peggy Neu (Meatless Monday), Michael Roxyne (Local Food Distribution), Megan Miller (Cricket Flour), Green Bronx Machine, Andrew Gunther (Meat System/ How good intentions went bad), Lance Price (Antibiotics), David Binkle (School Food)
Break for lunch
1:40-3:40pm: Sam Van Aken Tree of 40 Fruits, Matt Moore (Art and Food), Regina Bernard-Carreno (Food Racism), Sunny Young, Virginia Clarke (Philanthropy and Sustainable Agriculture), Alison Cayne (Bringing the Food Movement Together), Nikki Henderson (Building Allies)
Break
4:20-6:15: Myra Goodman (In Praise of Big Organic), Saru Jaramayan (Restaurant Workers), Clint Smith (Food Deserts/ Children/Schools), Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Ken Cook (EWG Database), Tom Colicchio (Hunger and Food Policy)
"Ira Grable was singing the blues when his family's textile business closed in 2000. Today his Berkshire Blue Cheese is a winner, and he is known around these parts as the big cheese...."read here or watch here.
"What is cheese without good bread? Just up the road is Berkshire Mountain Bakery, where Richard has been baking a better bread since 1985. I was kind of a bread maniac. Everything was bread. I would sleep, breathe, everything, I would go to countries, different bakeries...."read more or watch here.
"High in the hills of Richmond is Hilltop Orchards, where you might be surprised to find a winery. Furnace Brook Winery was started to make hard cider. Right now it is the fastest-growing niche in the beverage market. We are producing 13 different varieties of wine. The latest thing is this fantastic apple ice wine -- apple ice wine. The orchard was planted in the 1920's and today yields heirloom varieties...." read more or watch.
Join a CSA - Community Supported Agriculture - Farm: Become a member of a farm, provide funds now for a farmer, and begin picking up your share in June.
What a delicious way to support a local farmer!
See the list of CSA's on Berkshire Grown's Map-o-licious.
Tom Willey, left, and Jim Gerritsen converse in the Esalen garden in Big Sur, Calif.Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
"...For nearly a week, two dozen organic farmers from the United States and Canada shared decades' worth of stories, secrets and anxieties, and during breaks they shared the clothing-optional baths.
"The agrarian elders, as they were called, were invited to Esalen because the organizers of the event wanted to document what these rock stars of the sustainable food movement knew and to discuss an overriding concern: How will they be able to retire and how will they pass their knowledge to the next generation?
"...Big food businesses from McDonald's to Oscar Mayer and Safeway have promised to stop selling pork from pigs raised in crates over the next decade. Smithfield Farms, one of the country's largest pork processors, announced this month that it was encouraging all contractors raising hogs on its behalf to move to the use of group pens, which have to be big enough for several pigs to live in comfortably, with space to walk around and bed down.
"The restaurant chain Chipotle and some prominent chefs like Dan Barber and Bill Telepan, both of whom have restaurants in Manhattan, have begun using meats from animals that were humanely raised. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's do a brisk business in such meat..."
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Become a member of a farm, provide funds now for a farmer, and begin picking up your share in June.
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