Just Food: Farm-to-Fork Food Systems for 21st-Century Communities
Fall 2009 Challenge Week at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas
November 5 – 12, 2009
N.B. All events will be free and open to the public, except the Nov. 4 film screening, for which Market Street Cinema will be charging its usual admission fees.
Wednesday, Nov. 4—Special screening of the documentary Food, Inc. (MSC, Little Rock)
Thursday, Nov. 5—Joel Berg, 7:00 pm, The Clinton School for Public Service (Little Rock)
Monday, Nov. 9—Chris Taylor, 7:00 pm, McCastlain Ballroom, UCA campus
Tuesday, Nov. 10—Woody Tasch, 7:00 pm, McCastlain Ballroom, UCA campus
Wednesday, Nov. 11—Marion Nestle, 7:00 pm, Ida Waldron Auditorium, UCA campus
Thursday, Nov. 12—Joel Salatin, 7:00 pm, Arkansas State House Convention Center (Little Rock)
Joel Berg: former USDA executive under the Clinton Administration, current Executive Director of the NY City Coalition Against Hunger, and author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? http://joelberg.net/
Chris Taylor: creator of the documentary Food Fight, telling the story of 20th century agribusiness and American food culture, and featuring prominent movers and shakers in the local-foods movement such as Michael Pollan http://www.foodfightthedoc.com/foodfight.html
Woody Tasch: former venture capitalist and author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered. http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/woody_tasch
Marion Nestle: Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, and What to Eat, among numerous other titles. http://www.foodpolitics.com/ http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Marion_Nestle
Joel Salatin: renowned “grass farmer” of Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and author of Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, among other titles. http://www.polyface.com