The Farm Bill Forum This Friday evening, 6-8pm, at the Botanical Center. If you eat, be there!

[Ruell Chappell]

2011-04-29-FarmForum-SPFIELD-FLYERV2.pdf

 

Please come to:

                                                          America's Local Food Future

                                        The Farm Bill Forum

Friday evening, the 29th, 6pm - 8pm at the Botanical Center. The farm bill has everything to do with what crops are subsidized and what crop insurance is available for. With your help, we hope to make it beneficial to those producing local food. Producers, Consumers, Market owners.... please come Friday evening!
 

America's Local Food Future
Friday, April 29, 6 p.m. Springfield-Greene County
Botanical Center 2400 S. Scenic, Springfield, MO 65807
Space is limited. Please reserve your seat: http://moenviron.org/foodfarm.asp
Join national & local experts for a discussion of our food system, what it means to your health, & how to change it. Speakers:
•    Brad Redlin, Agricultural Program Director with the Izaak Walton League and Montana farmer; •    Angela Jenkins, RD, LD, Moms for Local Foods, Health is Local, llc; •    AlanScarrow, PhD, Producer of Organic Grassfed Beef and Produce. •    Ruell Chappell, President of the Well Fed Neighbor Cooperative, LLC and owner of Gateway
Farms, LLC.
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Co-Sponsors – Izaak Walton League, Well Fed Neighbor Alliance, Moms for Local Food, Slow Food Southwest Missouri, Springfield Urban Agriculture Coalition, Missouri Coalition for the Environment