Join us at the Farm2Campus Conference to engage with food organizers, students, administrators, sustainability coordinators, dining service managers, chefs and concerned individuals to share best parctices about:
• Easy steps to find and use local food
• Forming effective coalitions
• Tutorial on pricing application to help you for comparing local vs conventional
• Marketing real healthy food to students
• The present and future of local food on campus
Take a seat at the table to discuss the present and determine the future of local food on your campus.
Free parking at JCTC.
Several concurrent conferences in town on the same dates as Farm to Campus will make hotel rooms scarce. We have a few rooms reserved for Oct 30 and have found other rooms available at the Clarion hotel in Southern Indiana, from which we can provide transportation. If you need additional help in finding a hotel room, please contact Lynn at greenelynn@gmail.com.
As of 10/6/2014 there were 25 king rooms available.
Clarion Hotel Conference Center Louisville North $145/night
505 Marriott Dr.,
Clarksville, IN US, 47129
+1 (812) 283-4411
Schedule
8:45am Opening Remarks:
Mitchell Payne
Sarah Fritschner
Anim Steel
10am Small Groups
Low hanging fruit: Easy ways to begin direct farm impact.
Compliance and costs: making both work when serving local food in college dining
Dining Solutions: how chefs and manager make local work
12:30-1:30pm Locavore Lunch
1:30-2:45pm Breakout Sessions
Local food 101: For students, staff and faculty.
Experiences with the Real Food Calculator
3:00 to 4:45 - Plenary
Local vs Conventional Food Costs: Calculate the Difference: Eastern Kentucky Farm to Table Coordinator, Community Farm Alliance
Making an impact: Farmers and business talk about the difference large purchases can make
Moderator: Carmen Black, Regional Coordinator, Real Food Challenge
Ben Abell, Produce Farmer, Oldham County, KY
Bill Conner, Director of Dining Programs, Johns Hopkins University
Cliff Swain , Marksbury Farm Meat
4:30 to 4:45 - Closing Remarks
5:00 - 7:30 - Reception and Dinner (optional) 2125 Douglass Blvd, Louisville - Transportation available