"Everybody Eats!" From the Ground Up: First Annual Louisville Food Summit April 11, 2009

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CHILDREN WELCOME!
CFA's mission is to organize and encourage teamworkbetween farmers, rural, and urban citizens, through leadership development and grassroots democratic processes, to ensure a place for family-scale agriculture in our economies and communities.
In partnership with the Center for Healthy Equity, Metro United Way, the Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement, Making Connections Louisville, the Metro Louisville Economic Development Department, and our KY neighbors, Community Farm Alliance presents "Everybody Eats" Louisville's First Annual Food Summit.
This day will reflect the flow of our food from "farm to table" and encourage dialoguebetween those who grow food, sell food, and eatfood to begin efforts to create a better food system in Louisville!
Tickets and registration are free, but donations are accepted.
We hope to see you there! Pending Agenda:

8:00-9:00 Registration/light breakfast Main Lobby
9:00-9:30 Welcome
Berea Ernst- Grasshoppers LLC
9:30-10:30 From the Ground
Moderator: Ed White- Director, River City Drum Corp
Panelists: Adam Barr- Barr Farms, Sandee Corlett- Earths Promise Farm, Stephen Bartlett- Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church Community Garden, Joe Trigg- Trigg Enterprises, Nick Pasante- Finger Lickin Farms
10:35-10:45 YMCA Lets Move! Community Meeting Room

10:45-11:45 To the Market: Paths to Equitable Access
Moderator: Micheal Dean, Neighborhood Manager- California Collaborative
Panelists: Micheal Welch- Sav-A-Lot, James Neuman- ValuMarket, Debra Pennington- Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church, Andy Mahler-Lost River Co-op

11:45-1:00 Lunch & Networking Community Meeting Room

1:00-2:00 To the Community
Panelists: Lisa Sutton- Neighborhood House, Rae Strobel- Stone Soup Louisville, Patricia Bell- Smoketown/Shelby Park Farmers Market, Russ Meredith- LFMA, John Moody- Whole Life Co-op

2:00-3:15 Breakout Sessions

Paths to Equitable Access Training Room A
Fresh Stops- Learn how to start one in your community! Training Room B
Grassroots FoodInitiatives NetworkingCommunity Meeting Room
Social Marketing Community Meeting Room

3:15-3:30 Closing Community Meeting Room

Youth Track (ages 6-13)- All youth activities will be held on the 3rd floor
Albert Bauman- hands-on pottery
Angelique Perez- Food Literacy Project


Organized by Community Farm Alliance
Community Farm Alliance is a grassroots membership organization with over 2,000 members in 75 Kentucky counties. From creating new Farmers' Markets in underserved urban communities, to developing Farm-to-Cafeteria programs that link local farmers with institutional buyers, to promoting family farm-friendly policies in the halls of the State Capitol, CFA provides a grassroots voice for Kentucky's citizens-farmer and non-farmer, urban and rural alike-on farm, food, and economic issues.

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Ticket Info:  General Ticket- Donations accepted/ Registration required, Free

Official Website: http://louisvillefoodsummit-upcoming.eventbrite.com