Speaker Series- Sustainable Food Systems

Speaker Series: Sustainable Food Systems

Location: NPB 1001 on the UF Campus

                                                                                         Time: 6:15 – 8:00 pm

Sponsored by the UF Agronomy and Religion Departments

and the Office of Sustainability

 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

9/23/2010: Ricardo Salvador - Program Director for the Food Systems and Rural Development Program at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and an expert in maize physiology with a special interest in the history and sustainability of human so-cities and their modes of subsistence.

 

10/14/2010 Curt Ellis - Peabody-winning filmmaker who co-created and appeared in the film King Corn. His work with has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly, and on NPR, CBS, ABC and CNN

 

10/28/2010 - Adam Basford serves as the National Affairs Coordinator in the Agricultural Policy and National Affairs Division of the Florida Farm Bureau Federation.

 

11/4/2010: Annie Novak - Founder and director of Growing Chefs, Field-to-fork Food Education Program, the children’s gardening program coordinator for the New York Botanical Gardens, and co-founder and farmer of Eagle Street Roof-top Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

 

11/18/2010: Glyen Holmes - Executive Director of New North Florida Cooperative, an organization that provides fresh, healthy agricultural products at a fair price to School Lunch and Breakfast Programs.

 

12/2/2010: Amy Trubek - An Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, and author of the Haute Cui-sine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession and The Taste of Place:

A Cultural Journey into Terroir.