Kansas Rural Center's 2013 Farm and Food Conference, "Farming as if People Matter: How to Feed Ourselves, Build New Farms and Adapt to a Changing World," will feature a host of local, regional and national experts to present information on a wide variety of farm and food related topics.

 

Wes Jackson, founder and President of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, will be the keynote speaker at the conference, which will be held at the Meridian Center, 1420 E. Broadway Ct., Newton, Kansas, Saturday, November 2, from 9 am to 5 pm.  Jackson is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable agriculture and author of several books, and will present on "When Ecology Replaces Agronomy for Food Production."

 

Workshops focusing on Farm Transitions, Farm Management, Local Food Marketing, Community Food Solutions, and Food & Farm Policy will be led by experts involved in these topics and issues at the state or national level.  Kansas-based experts who will be joining us to present at the conference include producers, educators involved in local foods' projects, and representatives from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, K-State Research and Extension, University of Kansas, Kansas Department of Education, and Kansas Department of Agriculture. National experts will include speakers from the National Center for Appropriate Technology, the Public Health Law Center, Monarch Watch, and Partners for Sustainable Pollination.    

 

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This conference is presented by the Kansas Rural Center in partnership with Kansas Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension, Kansas Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Alternative Crops, and Farm Aid. Additional sponsors include Heartland Mill, Inc.

 

The Kansas Rural Center is a non-profit organization that since 1979 has promoted the long-term health of the land and its people through research, education, and advocacy that advances economically viable, ecologically sound, and socially just food and farming systems.  

 

More information about the conference and other upcoming opportunities are available at www.kansasruralcenter.org. Or, please contact Project Coordinator, Natalie Fullerton at nfullerton@kansasruralcenter.org, or 402-310-0177.