2016 SCHEDULE & WORKSHOP DETAILS
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DIY POLICY EMPOWERMENT FOR SMALL FARMS
What if every person takes charge of advocating for and passing just one law? To create economically resilient communities, we need to change or create millions of city, state, and federal laws. In the agricultural context, these new laws would remove barriers to and create incentives for local food production, sustainable farmland financing, worker-owned enterprise, shared housing, local food processing, farmland preservation and other aspects of thriving agricultural communities. SELC will present a road-map to passing high-impact policies, share our experiences introducing and passing legislation, and lead the participants in developing their personal policymaking goals and plans. Come away feeling empowered and ready to make new laws! WORKSHOP LEADERS: Dave Runston, Community Alliance with Family Farmers; Neil Thaper, Sustainable Economies Law Center KETCHUP & REVOLUTION: SMALL FARMS CONFRONT ECONOMIES OF SCALE
What do ketchup and California's local food revolution have in common? In this Cal Ag Roots podcast "listening party" you'll hear the story of how the invention of the mechanical tomato harvester changed California farming in ways that nobody could have predicted. Invented at UC Davis in 1962, the tomato harvester was a major agricultural engineering triumph-- and it put thousands of farmers and farmworkers out of business. Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, Director of the Cal Ag Roots Project at the California Institute for Rural Studies, will narrate this story, which will change the way you think about food movement work today. We'll have plenty of time for dialogue about the story and about the food movement's current role in shaping the UC research agenda. WORKSHOP LEADER: Ildi Carlisle-Cummins, Cal Ag Roots & California Institute for Rural Studies MORE WORKSHOP DETAILS COMING SOON... |
