This Weekend! Brooklyn Food Conference
I've been volunteering for an event I am very excited about: the Brooklyn Food Conference. If you live in or near Brooklyn, make room in your schedule this friday night/saturday and come join in the fun. I can tell you first hand that it is well-organized and will be a great event.
Some highlights:
Food issues hit home for all of Brooklyn–from school lunches, the rise in diabetes, and escalating food costs to immigration, farmers markets and local food challenges and delights, food touches us all. Come join us for a day of workshops, food demos, and a kids’ food fair. Lunch and dinner will be available for purchase. Dance following dinner. The conference will be FREE to all participants.
• See a roundtable of NYC chefs, moderated by WNYC’s Leonard Lopate, with Dan Barber, Peter Hoffman, Bill Telepan, and Brooklyn’s own David Shea of Applewood and John Tucker of Rosewater.
• Hear LaDonna Redmond on what people in Chicago have done to change their food system, learn about worldwide food rebellions from author Raj Patel, and find out how climate change can affect the world’s food supply from activist Anna Lappé, and discuss milk health risks and benefits with author Nina Planck–plus workshops with many other dedicated activists and professionals.
• Screen films about food issues, including Fresh, Life and Debt, Unnatural Selection, and Flow.
• Meet your local farmers!
• Learn how to start your own victory garden in Brooklyn, compost, and start a food coop.
• Join your children at a kids’ food fair with cooking demonstrations and other fun activities.
• Workshops by and for teens plus Teen Iron Chef!
• Enjoy lunch and dinner created by Brooklyn chefs using sustainable foods.
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Kicks off on Friday night with a screening of FRESH by Ana Joanes, followed by a day's full of activities, workshops, and more films on Saturday May 2.
Learn more, here: brooklynfoodconference.org