[getsmart-l] Places to Grow Food Conference

[John O'Gorman]

Council member Peter Mitchell and the Ontario Farmland Trust would  
like to invite you to join us for the Places to Grow Food conference  
which is coming up this Thursday and Friday in Guelph.  The purpose of  
this event is to kick-off the dialogue toward developing a Places to  
Grow Food plan for Ontario.  With "Places to Grow" the Province has a  
plan for where we are going to grow the 4 million people that are  
expected to join Ontario's population in the next 30 years...let's  
start thinking about how we're going to feed these people!

The conference will include a delicious local food dinner Thursday  
evening with special musical guests Revival Dear.  Local in April?!   
Come experience what's possible!

GRANTS AVAILABLE:
We have a small pot of money to help cover the registrations for  
individuals who might find the cost of attending this event  
prohibitive.  We are particularly interested in facilitating the  
attendance of new and young farmers and new immigrants with this  
funding.

For more information or to register please see the attached  
registration form and news release or call Melissa Watkins at (519)  
824-4120 ext.52686.

www.ontariofarmlandttrust.org

Event Dates: April 12-13, 2007 Peter Clark Hall, University of Guelph

AGENDA

Day 1 Thursday, April 12th
8:30-9:30am Registration
9:30-10:30am Opening Plenary
Stew Hilts, Chair, Ontario Farmland Trust
Wayne Caldwell, Planner, Huron County
Elbert van Donkersgoed, Executive Director, GTA Agricultural Action Committee
10:30-11:00am Coffee
11:00-noon Plenary continued
12:00-1:00pm Lunch (included in registration price)
1:00-2:30pm Afternoon Break-out Sessions (Choose A or B)
1A Farmer Panel
- Pater Lambrick, Lambrick Farms
- David Pullen, McCully's Hill Farm & Executive Director of the  
McCully Centre for Rural Learning
- Ella Haley, EFAO & Brant Co. Farmland Preservation Working Group
1B Planning for Agriculture
- Brady Deaton, Assistant Professor in
the Department of Agricultural
Business, University of Guelph
- Representative from the Growth Secretariat
2:30-3:00pm Coffee
3:00-4:30pm Afternoon Break-out Sessions (Choose A or B)
2A Value-Added Local Food Production
- Katherine Grechuta, M.Sc. Student,
University of Guelph
- Mark Juhasz, Ph.D. Student, University of Guelph
2B Planning for Agriculture
- Helma Geerts, Senior Planner, Regional Municipality of Halton
- Margaret Walton, Partner, Planscape

5:00-6:00pm Reception and Book Launch
"Farmland Preservation: Land for Future Generations"

6:00pm Local Food Dinner with Special Musical Guests Revival Dear
Local in April, are you kidding?! Come experience what's possible!

Day 2 Friday, April 13th
9:00-10:30am Morning Break-out Sessions (Choose A or B)
3A Local Food Marketing
- Mike Schreiner, Vice-President Local Flavour Plus
- Achim Mohssen-Beyk, President, Quinte Organic Farmers Co-operative
3B Supporting New and Young Farmers
- Ali English and/or Christie Young, Whole Circle Farm and FarmStart
- Iffat Zehra, Founder, Community Economic Development for Immigrant Women
Coffee
11:00-12:30am Afternoon Break-out Sessions (Choose A or B)
4A More Local Marketing
- Chris Jess, Coordinator Guelph Food
Skills Project
- Peter Katona, Executive Director,
Foodlink Waterloo Region
4B Succession Issues
- Colin Siren, Senior Research Manager, Ipsos Reid, for the Ontario  
Cattelman's
Association
- Peter Coughler, Succession Planning and Business Agreements Program  
Lead, OMAFRA
12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30pm Closing Plenary Workshop: What are the main issues that  
would need to be included in a "Places to Grow Food" plan? What things  
should we remember to keep it practical and useful?

Thanks and I hope to see you soon!

Melissa
-- 
Melissa Watkins
Executive Director
Ontario Farmland Trust
c/o University of Guelph
Richards Building
Guelph, ON  N1G 2W1
(519) 824-4120 ext.52686
(519) 824-5730 (fax)
mwatkins at uoguelph.ca
www.farmland.uoguelph.ca






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