KEYNOTE: LIFTING UP THE VOICE OF SMALL FARMERS
How farmers are changing policy, markets & our food system narrative

FEBRUARY 23, 2019
4 - 5pm

To grow a more sustainable and equitable food future we must start with healthy, thriving and empowered farmers. But when it comes to the conversations that shape our food system—be they in the halls of Sacramento, in classrooms or in corporate board rooms—small farmers rarely get a seat at the table. But some farmers aren't waiting for an invitation. These change-makers from diverse backgrounds and generations, rural and urban, are working to reform our food and agricultural policies and reshape the cultural narrative around where our food comes from and who grows it.

Join us for a discussion with three farmers about their grassroots work lifting up the voice of community-scaled growers like themselves. None trained to become advocates and there's no shortage of things to do back on their farms, but for them, letting others determine the systems in which they steward the land and grow food simply isn't an option. What can learned through this exchange between new farmers and those who've been growing for decades, between those tending soil in the Sacramento Valley, Central Coast and the heart of Oakland? Find out. 

FEATURING: 
Nina Ichikawa, Berkeley Food Institute; Kristyn Leach, Namu Farm; 
Ken Kimes, New Natives; ​Kelly Carlisle, ​Acta Non Verba

Kleiber Hall
UC Davis, CA

This event, concluding the California Small Farm Conference, is FREE and open to all. 

NOTE: If you are not attending the full conference, there is no need to visit registration before attending the keynote