| Monday, April 24, 2006 |
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| 4:00 – 7:00 PM |
Registration |
Hotel Lobby |
| 5:30 – 9:00 |
Dinner |
Blue Ridge Dining Room |
| 5:30 – 6:30 |
Yoga for All Levels (optional) |
Laurel Suite |
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| Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
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| 7:15– 8:00 AM |
Centering
Exercises (optional) |
Rhododendron KL |
| 7:30 – 8:30 |
Continental breakfast |
Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 – 8:30 |
Registration |
Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:30 |
Welcome |
Grand Ballroom |
| 8:50 |
Integrating
Practice, Perception, and Policy |
Grand Ballroom |
| 9:15 |
Growing
Just Food Systems from the Ground Up and World Café Discussion |
Grand Ballroom |
| 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:45 |
Continue
with Growing Just Food Systems from the Ground Up and World Café Discussion |
Grand Ballroom |
| 12:45 PM |
Lunch |
Heritage Ballroom |
| 2:30-4:00 |
Practice-Focused Breakout sessions |
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• BLAST
Cadre: Local Food Systems, National Networking |
Wilson |
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• Voices
from the Field: Translating the Issues |
Eisenhower G |
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• Redefining
Healthcare Food - The Campaign for Healthy Food in Healthcare |
Taft |
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• Food
System Lessons from Urban America |
Roosevelt |
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• History
and Culture of Food: First Nations |
Hoover |
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• Creating
Sustainability Plans for Projects and Organizations |
Bryan Q |
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• Building
Infrastructure for Rural Food Systems |
Coolidge D |
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• Making
Fast Food Fair Food: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and our Fight
for Farm Workers' Human Rights |
Coolidge E |
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• Future
Strategies for Food and Society |
Fitzgerald |
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• Getting
Our Grub On: Increasing Access to Local, Sustainable, Fair Food Through
Innovative Policy |
Bryan R |
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• Shaking
the Federal Money Tree |
Eisenhower F |
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• Mural
Making |
Foyer Outside Grand Ballroom C |
| 4:00 |
Open Networking Time |
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| 4:30 – 5:30 |
Yoga
for All Levels (optional) |
Laurel Suite |
| 5: 00-6:00 |
Food
and Society Reception with Authors and Artists |
Heritage Ballroom |
| 6:00 |
Dinner On Own – Complimentary shuttle available to downtown
Asheville or dine in hotel restaurants. Restaurant reservations must be
made with Accents of Asheville in Hotel Lobby. |
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| Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
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| 7:15 – 8:00 AM |
Centering
Exercises (optional) |
Laurel Suite |
| 7:30 – 8:30 |
Continental breakfast |
Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:30 |
Food
and Society Partnership |
Grand Ballroom |
| 9:15 |
Framing
for Food and Farming: An Update |
Grand Ballroom |
| 10:30 |
Break |
|
| 11:00 |
Navigating
the Rapidly Shifting Dominant Food System |
Grand Ballroom |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
Heritage Ballroom |
| 1: 00- 3:15 |
Change Makers Marketplace: Interactive Activities and Afternoon
Workshops |
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Curbside
Consulting, Seed
Swap, Organizational Exhibit Tables |
Hallway Outside Level 8 Breakout Rooms |
| Concurrent to the Marketplace are Three workshops. |
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| 1:00 – 5:00 |
Framing
Food in the Field, An Interactive Workshop |
Grand Ballroom A |
| 1:00 – 3:15 |
Mapping
the Convergence Between Food and Health |
Fitzgerald |
| 1:00 - 3:15 |
Nuts
and Bolts Workshop |
Wilson |
| 3:30-5:00 |
Perception-Focused Breakout Sessions |
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• Fei-Fi-Fo-FAIR:
How Fair Trade is Helping Smallholder Farmers Compete in the Global Economy |
Bryan Q |
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• From
Outreach to Engagement: Nurturing Value Webs in Local Food Systems Development |
Coolidge D |
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• Capitalizing
Local Food Business Through Local Stock |
Hoover |
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• Growing
Together: Techniques for Building Inspired, Diverse and Productive Communities |
Coolidge E |
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• Making
the Economic Case for Investment in Local and Regional Food Systems |
Eisenhower |
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• The
New Mainstream: A Vision of Sustainable Food Systems in California
|
Bryan R |
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• The
WTO and American Agriculture: How Our Trade Commitments Create Tough Choices
for the Next U.S. Farm Bill |
Fitzgerald |
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• Community
Development and Food Systems |
Roosevelt |
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• Practice
to Policy: Exploring the Fundamentals of Public Policy and How To Make
It Work for You |
Taft |
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• Outside
the Big Box: Local Food Systems |
Wilson |
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• Human
Diversity and Social Justice in the Food System: Moving from Talk to Practice |
Grand Ballroom C |
| 5:00 |
Open Time |
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| 5:15 – 6:15 |
Yoga
for All Levels (optional) |
Laurel Suite |
| 6:00 – 8:00 |
Banquet Dinner Featuring Regional Foods |
Heritage Ballroom |
| 7:30 – 10:00 |
Evening
entertainment |
Grand Ballroom |
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| Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
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| 7:30 – 9:00 AM |
Continental Breakfast |
Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:00 |
Policy
Breakfast Sessions |
Coolidge, Eisenhower, Hoover, Grand Ballroom |
| 9:00 |
Federal
Farm and Food Policy Plenary Panel and World Café Discussion |
Grand Ballroom |
| 10:45 |
Break/Check Out |
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| 11:15 |
God’s
Response to “Not Enough” |
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| 12:00 |
Closing
Session/ Mural Presentation |
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| 12:30 |
Adjourn |
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