October 7th – 9th, 2020

This year’s theme ‘Strengthen Roots – Cultivate Change’ celebrates the importance of place, authenticity, and supporting local economies while recognizing our need to adapt in the face of rapidly changing economic and social climates. While this theme was selected before our current crisis the importance has only grown in the last several months. The conference will offer thirty sessions in four tracks: Strengthening Our Roots, Cultivating Change in Communities, Cultivating Change through Transportation, and Cultivating Change through Land Use.

Registration

Registration included full access to virtual sessions using Whova for the live three-day event. Session recordings will be available for one year on mobile and three months using the desktop website. Whova also includes community boards with several ways to connect with fellow attendees.

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Keynote Speaker: Mark Winne

Mark Winne has dedicated his professional life to enabling people to find solutions to their own food problems as well as those that face their communities and the world. From 1979 to 2003, Mark Winne was the Executive Director of the Hartford Food System, a Connecticut non-profit food organization.  He is the co-founder of numerous organizations including the Community Food Security Coalition, the State of Connecticut Food Policy Council, and the City of Santa Fe Food Policy Council. He was a Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Fellow and a member of the U.S. Delegation to the 2000 Rome Conference on Food Security.

As a writer on food issues, Mark’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, Sierra, Orion, and Yes!, to name a few. He is the author of four books Closing the Food Gap, Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin’ Mamas and Stand Together or Starve Alone, and most recently, Food Town USA. Through his own firm, Mark Winne Associates, Mark speaks, trains, and writes on topics related to community food systems, food policy, and food security. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Event Sponsors

A big thank you to our sponsors! We couldn’t do this conference without you!