Feed Denver's Second Annual 
Urban Farmers & Vegetable Gardeners Symposium

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Saturday, March 24 & 25, 2012  

Keynote Speakers: 
Will Allen, CEO of Growing Power, Inc.
Gary Nabhan, author of Chasing Chiles 
and the upcoming 
Food Justice in the Face of Climate Change: 
Resilience through Cultural and Biological DiversityLet’s Get Serious about Growing Food! 

This annual Feed Denver event is a two day, intensive, hands-on workshop will show how sustainable, healthy local food production can be developed in and around an urban setting.  This symposium offers diverse groups the opportunity to learn, plan, develop, operate and sustain community food projects. Participants leave the workshop with improved skills that they can take back into their communities and pass on to others. This annual growing skills symposium presents over 30 classes in the course of two days. These workshops are for both rural and urban projects. More here.

 

Keynote: Will Allen

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Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Will is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. Feed Denver was chosen by Will Allen to be a Growing Power Regional Training Center in 2009. Read more.

Keynote: Gary Nabhan

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Food Justice in the Face of Climate Change: Resilience through Cultural and Biological Diversity
Food justice hinges on creating stronger linkages between food producers and consumers, especially in places where one or the other have been historically marginalized. True food justice gives equal attention to farmers, ranchers, urban gardeners, gleaners, truckers, home cooks, school children, elderlies and the homeless through building a more cohesive food community.  Read more. 

Feed Denver: Urban Farms & Markets inspires creative and successful urban agribusiness.  Imagine farms in the city where people come to learn how to grow fresh food at high altitude, gain hands-on job training, and develop entrepreneurial skills that open avenues to self-sufficiency. Our farm-based training improves not only access to food, but develops economic opportunity and employment. Our farms are a diverse network of local fresh food production and direct markets, an incubation program for multi-cultural urban farmers and value-added producers, a regional research and training center, and host to courses and workshops, as well as a series of annual urban farming events.
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Community Steward Farmers Trineka Freeman, Kasmira Thompson, and Paula Thompson with Will Allen at the Black Urban Farmers and Gardeners Conference in Brooklyn, NY, 2010

Feed Denver is a 
Growing Power Regional Training Center

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InPower Week

It begins with your circle of influence.  What is your reach in your community.  Join us in celebrating the power in you, the power in community.  It's all about being local.
LOCAL FOOD AND FARMING: 
the Symposium hosts farming gardening skill building and networking and inspiration from national and regional leaders Will Allen and Gary Nabhan.  

LOCAL CONVERSATION: TALKS, ARTS, AND FILMS.

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  From March 26-30th the week's events will include A Slow Money conversation - Investing as if Food, Farm, and Fertility Matter.  Chipotle Food Film Series at GreenSpaces.  Community Art Fundraiser at Hinterland.

LOCAL MOVEMENT: 

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LET’S MOVE CROSSOVER NEIGHBORHOOD RUN/ROLL/STROLL 5K and Urban Street Fair. March 31st.

LOCAL ART & MUSIC SHOWCASE. March 31st.

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 More information coming soon.  
Hope to see you there!