Conference: World on Your Plate -- Food and Sustainable Living

FRIDAY Oct.5: Panel Discussion focused on the place-based “revolution” happening in the Buffalo-Niagara region. 

Panelists: Dennice Barr (Fruitbelt food and land trust), Deidra M. EmEl  (WNY Peace Center), Rahwa Ghirmatzion (Executive Director, PUSH Buffalo), Lynda Schneekloth (WNY Alliance & Sierra Club), Agnes Williams, (Indigenous Women’s Initiatives) and Alexander Wright (African Heritage Food Co-op).

SATURDAY Oct.6: Featured Speakers

• Jacqui Patterson - Director of NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program

• Sarah van Gelder - Author, columnist, founder & director of People’s Hub, co-founder of YES! Magazine

FOOD, WORKSHOPS, VENDORS & MORE: There will be a light dinner served on Friday. Refreshments and a local, organic, vegetarian lunch on Saturday, plus 14 workshops to choose from on a variety of issues, vendors, informational tables, music and more. 

WHEN: Friday October 5, 5pm-9pm and Saturday, October 6, 9am-4:30 pm

WHERE: Daemen College, Wick Student Center, 4380 Main St., Amherst [Map]

TICKETS:  $10 - $35; Students with ID & Pre-registered are FREE, scholarships are available. More information at WorldOnYourPlate.org

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

13^TH 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.

To register directly through EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-on-your-plate-tickets-25650040963

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

World On Your Plate - Conference on Food & Sustainable Living

Website: WorldOnYourPlate.org

CONFERENCE: World on Your Plate

For more information, visit WorldOnYourPlate.org or call 716-839-8524.

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