Good Food is Everybody's Business
We attended one of Whole Foods Market™ Speaker Series events; this one titled “Consumer’s Conflict: The Cost of Fresh Picked Produce in the 21st Century.” The guest speaker was Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland – How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. In the end, there was too much Whole Foods and too little discussion of the real cost of fresh produce and what to do about it. And we paid $40 to hear it…
The 2011 Provender Conference, the premier Northwest event for retailers, food producers and processors, distributors and brokers, will be held this year in Hood River, Oregon, October 5-7. Launched in 1977, Provender Alliance presents its 35th annual event designed to help businesses and organizations in the natural food industry to do business together better. Plenty of time to sign up!
This will be the first of several columns and interviews resulting from a recent 4-day Congress for New Urbanism Conference, otherwise known as CNU 19, held this year in Madison, Wisconsin, home of dairy, bicycles, and wacky politics. How many other states have a quarter of their state senators up for recall or host tractor protest rallies around the state capitol, have 6 months of winter, and a burgeoning organic foods industry?
The Future of Food Conference brought together many of the world’s leading experts on food, including Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, a lifelong environmentalist and organic farmer; Eric Schlosser, author of “Fast Food Nation;” and Wendell Berry, winner of The National Humanities Medal.
For the first time, the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) and the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) are holding their semi-annual meetings in Seattle. These meetings are held in moving locations to allow as much public access as possible, and are open to the public for an insider’s view of the organic rule-making process.
The 2011 MOSES Organic Farming Conference was held this year in La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 24-26, 2011. Our contributor, Drue Fergison of Ralph’s Pretty Good …
The MOSES Organic Farming Conference is the largest organic farming conference in the US. Nearly 3000 attended this year’s event, held February 24-26, 2011. The conference is past but it’s not over; there’s lot’s more to learn.
More than 500 people attended Organicology, held this year in Portland OR, and took part in a full day of intensives, 2 days of workshops and educational sessions, and a mini trade show with 66 exhibitors. There were three fascinating keynote speakers, nine outstanding meals prepared out of local and organic products, and even a potato tasting competition. This is the first of several “post event” commentaries.
