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Saturday, October 1, 2016

World on Your Plate: 13th Annual Conference on Food & Sustainable Living

13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD
AND SUSTAINABLE LIVING
DAEMEN COLLEGE WICK CENTER
OCT. 7 (EVENING) & OCT. 8 (ALL DAY), 2016

Friday, October 7th 2016

5:00 - Registration (outside social room) 
5:30 - Light Dinner 
6:00 - Panel: "Farm-to-Market: Issues and Challenges" 

(15 min break) 

7:15 Round table - NY Organic Action Plan with NOFA-NY

Saturday, October 8th 2016

8:30 - registration (Coffee & breakfast items) 
8:30 - Vendors (set-up at 8 am) 
9:00 - Welcome and Introductions 
9:15 -
Matthew Goldfarb (Fruition Seeds) "Resilient Seeds in a Changing Climate" 
10:45 to 11:45 -
Workshop Session I (9 workshops offered—see website)
12:00 to 1:00 
Workshop Session II (10 workshops offered—see website)
1:15 to 2:15 -
Organic Vegetarian Lunch 
2:30 -
Frances Moore Lappe (Small Planet Institute), "The Solution is on Your Plate" 
3:30 – Book-signing, raffle/auctions
4:00 to 5:00 - Celebration (
music, cider/wine & cheese)

$35 at the door or $30 for preregistration, $10 Friday only. 

Students with ID & preregistration are free.  Scholarships are available.

For information &/or to register:  www.worldonyourplate.org.


Questions/comments/suggestions:  Eveline Hartz, aehartz@roadrunner.com or June Licence (jlicence@buffalo.edu). 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

CONFERENCE: World On Your Plate - Friday & Saturday

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World on Your Plate Conference on Food and Sustainable Living is this Friday, October 12th 7pm-9:30pm and Saturday, October 13th, 9:00am-5:00pm.
  • Bring your children!  There is a FREE Youth Conference for ages 8-15. 
  • Wonderful vegetarian lunch from produce donated by area farmers.
  • Speakers:  Brendan Brazier, triathlete and expert on plant based diet, and Mark Kastel, farm policy and organics
  • over 17 workshops on  yoga, GMOs, herbs, gluten-free diet, bees, hops, farm workers, & many more!
  • Networking and light snacks 5:00-6:00, Alex Worthling Quartet
  • Over 20 information tables
  • For more information, www.worldonyourplate.org or call 716-839-8524