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GLYNWOOD HARVEST AWARDS TO HONOR INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP IN THE SUSTAINABLE FOOD MOVEMENT
The sixth annual awards to Honor Winners on October 27 in New York City, Fred Kirschenmann, Organic Farmer, Educator, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the President of Stone Barns, to receive the first Glynwood Medal for Distinguished Leadership...

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SLOW FOOD writer and local food advocate, Gary Nabhan, Michael Pollan's favorite farmer, Joel Salatin, and British grazer, Roger Newman Turner, headline this year's ACRES USA Conference,Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 4-6, 2008 Pre-Conference Intensive Study, Dec. 1-3, 2008 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri....Call for Posters, Workshops, and Short Courses: 2009 National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 19 – 21, 2009, for more information, please contact Marion Kalb at marion@foodsecurity.org, 505-474-5782....

SLOW FOOD writer and local food advocate, Gary Nabhan, Michael Pollan's favorite farmer, Joel Salatin, and British grazer, Roger Newman Turner, headline this year's ACRES USA Conference,Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 4-6, 2008 Pre-Conference Intensive Study, Dec. 1-3, 2008 Hyatt Regency St. Louis at Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri....Call for Posters, Workshops, and Short Courses: 2009 National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, Portland, Oregon, March 19 – 21, 2009, for more information, please contact Marion Kalb at marion@foodsecurity.org, 505-474-5782....Metropolitan Agriculture in North America: From Planning to Development, Saturday, October 4th 2008, Noon - 5:30pm University of Pennsylvania, Houston Hall, 3418 Spruce St., Philadelphia PA....Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty,speaks at Labyrinth Books in Princeton NJ on Tuesday, October 7th @ 5.30PM. This event is free and open to the public. Followed by a reception. To r.s.v.p. or with any questions please write to info-pr@labyrinthbooks.com...The USDA is co-hosting a Food Desert workshop on October 9th in Washington, DC.