Winter Roundtable on Community Food Sovereignty

This event is not your ordinary conference. The presentations and organizing sessions we are putting together are geared to helping folks come up with solutions to a common problem: an unstable and unjust food system. We are working with communities to build an understanding and a method for taking back control of the food produced and consumed in our towns and neighborhoods. There is no audience, we are all a community working together to change the food system and drawing on all our considerable knowledge and experience to do it. Here are some features for the weekend:
Urban to Rural Exchange: Stable food systems for and by working people. Wanda Salaman, Director of Mothers on the Move in the South Bronx, and Henry Harris, Regional Coordinator of the Food Security Roundtable, will discuss the need and method for building partnerships between farmers, urban community based organizations, and other working people as a basis for a sustainable food system.
Victory Gardens Project: VGP Co-founders Carol Dove and Michael Vernon will lead a discussion about the connections between farming, food, the prison-industrial complex and supporting political prisoners and their communities.
Affordable Good Food - Richard Berkfield, organizer of Post Oil Solution's Food Security Project will start a discussion and strategy session about how to make farm products accessible to lower income people. Richard will share insights on a market project he started with Amy Frost from the Food Security Roundtable in Vermont.