Local Food for Schools, Hospitals, & Other Institutions
How can we advance Farm to Institution connections in the Pioneer Valley?
- Wed, May 22, 9:00 am – 1:30 pm
- 10th Floor of the UMass Hotel & Conference Center, Amherst
Program
8:45 – 9:00 Arrivals, Coffee, Tea, Bagels, Muffins & Mingling
9:00 – 12:45 PVGrows Forum
Welcome
- Ken Toong, UMass Director of Auxiliary Services
- Andrew Morehouse, Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
Keynote
- Kelly Erwin, MA Farm to School Project
Case Study: UMass Dining Services
- Joe Czajkowski, Czajkowski Farms
- Christopher Howland, UMass Dining Services
- Joanna Benoit, UMass Student, Real Food Challenge
- Alli Condra, Harvard Law School Food Law & Policy Clinic
Feature Projects: This is an open networking period during which the following “Resource People” will be available to discuss their farm-to-institution projects:
1. Farm-to-PreSchool Project
- Jessica Collins, Partners for a Healthier Community
- Sarah Teece, Square One
2. Holyoke Kindergarten Initiative
- Anne Cody, Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council
- Ana Jaramillo, Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council
3. Holyoke Schools Photovoice Project
- Diego Angarita, Nuestras Raices
4. Fertile Ground at the Williamsburg Schools
- Catherine Sands, Fertile Ground
5. Smith College
- Kathy Zieja, Smith College Dining Services
6. Farm-to-Hospital
- Matt Perpetua, Baystate Medical Center
- Marydale DeBor, Fresh Advantage
- John Stoddard, Health Care Without Harm
7. Collaboration between Food Bank of Western MA & Mountain View Farm
- Andrew Morehouse, Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
- Elizabeth Adler, Mountainview Farm
8. Western MA Food Processing Center’s Freezing Project
9. Black River Produce Meat Cutting Project
- Jean Hamilton, Black River Produce
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch
Tables arranged by Working Group
1:30 – 3:00 Slow Money PV Chapter Meeting (Separate registration required) in Room 162-75 (1st Floor of Conf Center).
FORUM SPONSORS:
- UMass Dining Services
- Center for Agriculture – UMass Amherst
- Common Capital
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)
- Cooperative Development Institute
- Cooperative Fund of New England
- Farm Credit East
- Franklin County CDC
- Franklin Land Trust
- Fresh Advantage
- Good Egg Marketing
- Just Roots
- Lydia B. Stokes Foundation
- Mass. Farm to School Project
- New England Small Farm Institute
- On behalf of 135,000 neighbors at risk of hunger in western Massachusetts
- Partners for a Healthier Community
- PVPC
- Real Pickles
- Solidago Foundation
- The Conway School
- The Frances Fund
- The Trustees of Reservations
- UMass Amherst Libraries
- UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Program