My Account | Shopping Cart

Support The Trust Donate now and give the gift of education and food. Your contribution will go directly to helping others learn.

Join our Mailing List Sign up now Email: For Email Marketing you can trust

Community Food Conference

The Food Trust, with many other Philadelphia-area organizations, is co-sponsoring the Community Food Security Coalition’s 2008 Annual Conference, “Re/Storing Our Urban and Rural Communities with Healthy Food.”

When: October 4-8, 2008

Where: Philadelphia, PA and Cherry Hill, NJ

Conference Highlights:

• Keynote speakers and plenary panels on increasing availability of healthy foods in low-income communities.
• Fifty workshops and film screenings focusing on food security at the community, municipal, global, and regional levels.
• Trade show for leading nonprofit, academic, and government agencies in the community food and farming field.
• All meals featuring locally grown or harvested foods.
• Field trips to local markets, gardens, farms, retail stores, and related sites.
• Pre-conference seminars on policy advocacy, farm to school, and related topics.
• Welcome by Philadelphia and New Jersey political leaders.

For more information on the national conference, click here to visit the Community Food Security Coalition Web site.

Call for Local Workshops: Click here for the Request for Proposals for local workshops. The conference will feature a special track of selected workshops for presenters to showcase their local/regional programs, research, or issues related to food security, a healthy food system, and sustainable farming. Please note that the deadline to return the proposal form for presenting a Local Workshop is April 14, 2008.

For more information on local programming that’s being planned for the conference, contact Ellen Holtzman (eholtzman@thefoodtrust.org). If you’d like to suggest a local field trip, please contact Ellen before April 14, 2008. This Web page will be updated as more information becomes available.