Tonight the Urban Agriculture Task Force will present its report to City Council, complete with a comprehensive set of policy recommendations developed through an 18-month stakeholder process. The City Council meeting begins at 7pm in the Contois Auditorium at City Hall. Download the report [PDF].
Where & When
September 20, 2011
5:00PM-10:00PM
American Flatbread
Burlington Hearth
115 St. Paul Street
Burlington, Vermont
Please join us for an American Flatbread Benefit Bake in support of the Healthy City program and our nine vibrant Burlington school gardens on Tuesday, September 20.
This event will raise awareness about the importance of community-based gardening, and raise funds for garden-based education and summer taste tests. American Flatbread will graciously contribute a portion of the cost of each flatbread sold from 5pm-10pm. We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Jessica Hyman & Jenn McGowan
Friends of Burlington Gardens
UVM is offering a week long professional certificate in Food Systems this summer! It’s great to see the unfurling of UVM’s new Food Systems Spire of Excellence!
Here’s the description of the program and a link to the Certificate’s website:
You may not have heard yet – the news is still pretty fresh to us as well.
The Burlington Food Council was just charged by the City Council with studying the issues of urban agriculture and providing policy recommendations. We hope this project will result in city policies that resolve confusion (for example, why can you only keep 4 chickens in your back yard? What about goats, pigs, or a cow?) and create comprehensive policies that will encourage people to grow victory gardens and raise more of their own food.
This project is up for The Skinny Pancake’s Community Gardening Grant and we need your support. The $500 grant will be awarded to one lucky local food project on May 1 based on a popular vote.
I looked over the list and was overwhelmed by all the good projects that deserve our support! Luckily we all get 3 votes so we don’t have to choose between school gardens, community beehives and urban agriculture.
Vote here and thanks for your support!
Hunger Banquet – Check it out on Facebook
Saturday, March 5, 2011
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Main Street Landing
Free and open to the public
This event sounds really cool! Oxfam is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. Governor Madeline Kunin is hosting (among others!) and two really intriguing speakers:
- Ms. Lindsey Bolger, Director of Coffee Sourcing & Relationships at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
- Ms. Yvette Cissé, an Oxfam America partner, shea butter farmer, and member of MoBioM farming cooperative, Bougouni, Mali
You don’t have to be in School Food Service to enjoy the VT School Nutrition Association Conference and Food Vendor Show, October 21 and 22nd at the Double Tree Conference Center in South Burlington, VT!
The new and improved annual conference is now expanded to 2 days. Inspirational keynote speakers – including our very own Diane Imrie – and a wide variety of workshops will be relevant to food council members, nurses, superintendents, business managers, wellness coordinators, and school board members.
Learn new skills and ideas alongside colleagues and other professionals at this two-day conference!
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions E-Team could be just the program for you- check it out!
Be sure to check out the USDA’s new strategic plan. Do you think it lives up to its vision statement:
“To expand economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production sustainability that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve and conserve our Nation’s natural resources through restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.”
