Going Local Colloquium

The Going Local Colloquium will include a variety of exciting, tasty and useful items from our sponsors.

These items include:

Two compost bins from Gardener's Supply
Bags of compost from Intervale Compost
Cookbooks and magazine subscriptions from Eating Well Magazine
A $25 gift card to American Flatbread
A $20 gift card to Viva Espresso
A membership to Shelburne Farms
Various seed packets from High Mowing Organic Seeds
Two $20 gift cards to City Market
Two $50 gift cards to Healthy Living Market
A coupon for a bushel of pick your own apples from Shelburne Orchards
Handmade greeting cards made by Shelburne Orchards employee Meghan Humphrey
and pottery made by Montpelier potter Amy Macrellis

The raffle will be held before Michael Shuman's Keynote Speech in Memorial Lounge.

Please sign-up at the raffle table on April 19th.

Moderator: TBA
Time: Throughout day, specific times listed below
Place: 427A

1. Deconstructing Supper, 12:30 to 1:15, 48 minutes
2. Seeds, Hope & Concrete, 1:15 to 2:00, 44 minutes
3. The Future of Food, 10:45 to 12:30, 88 minutes
4. Growing Up Fresh: Vermont Farm to School, 9:30 to 10:45 and 2:00 to 3:30, 22 minutes

"Ripe tomato salad. Creamy chicken soup. Grilled westcoast salmon.
Dinner is served.
But what's in our food and how is it grown?
Renowned chef John Bishop leads viewers on an eye-opening and engaging journey into the billion-dollar battle to control global food production. Starting with a gourmet meal in his five-star restaurant, Bishop travels the world -- from farmer's fields to biotech laboratories to supermarket aisles -- on a personal quest to find out what our food choices are.

With a hearty appetite for food and information, chef Bishop explores the politics and ethics of food. He discovers that 70% of processed foods on supermarket shelves in North America contain genetically modified ingredients. The handful of biotech companies who control genetically modified seeds claim this is the only way to feed the world's growing population. But are these foods safe? Are there other, less risky ways to feed ourselves? Our chef finds answers to these compelling questions and more.

From North America to Great Britain to India and back, John Bishop shares fascinating conversations and mouth-watering feasts with farmers, such as Michael Ableman, scientists and activists, such as Vandana Shiva. We see the actual transfer of DNA from bacteria into canola plants, and meet Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser who is battling the giant Monsanto Corporation. We learn startling information about the milk we drink in North America and meet Indian farmers and activists fighting to keep traditional farming practices alive.

Deconstructing Supper is a ride every contemporary eater will want to take -- a thought-provoking and entertaining journey into the revolution in modern food production, and its effects on our lives."(www.bullfrogfilms.com)

(www.Heifer.org)

"Seeds, Hope & Concrete" explores the potential of urban agriculture and its role in not only providing a source of healthy local food, but in empowering youth and building community. Produced by Heifer International, this video considers urban agriculture production in Brooklyn, Chicago, Little Rock, Toronto and Wisconsin.

"There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America -- a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today."(www.thefutureoffood.com)

Growing Up Fresh: Vermont Farm to School was recently developed by Vermont F.E.E.D. The film chronicles the development of the farm to school movement and Vermont F.E.E.D.’s work in Vermont over the past decade. It also outlines what communities need to start their own farm to school initiatives. This will be one of the first showings of the film ever. The film is awaiting distribution by Vermont F.E.E.D. in the near future.