2020 Campus Farmer Summit

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Taylor in Beginning Farmers, Events, Farming Resources, Management, Training Programs, Young Farmers // 0 Comments

The 2020 Campus Farmer Summit will be held February 22, 2020 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at The Martin Institute at Stonehill College, Easton, MA.

Campus Farmer Summit – A gathering of the campus farmer community in New England

Campus farmers, students, and representatives from non-profits and agencies connect in person about what makes campus farms successful. This forum provides an opportunity for stakeholders working at the intersection of food justice, environmental sustainability, food access, and healthy eating to discuss challenges and opportunities. Partners from the nonprofit sector join us in conversation about what colleges and universities can do to forge deeper community alliances and strengthen our regional food system. More details coming soon! Subscribe to the newsletter to receive updates.

Campus Farmer Summit Request for Proposals Now Open

Our request for proposals is now open! Do you have a great campus farm tool, resource, or strategy you want to share? Are you interested in hosting a roundtable conversation about a topic? Are you a student with campus farm research to share during our poster session? We invite you to submit your idea. If you have questions about a proposal or idea, please contact Tania Taranovski at tania@farmtoinstitution.org. Proposals are due October 25th, 2019

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About the Campus Farmer Summit

The New England Campus Farmer Summit is a biennial event held in February that gathers the campus farm community in the northeast. The second biennial summit will highlight the value of campus farms and growing spaces, given larger societal concerns and shifts in structure, function, and constraints of higher education institutions. Attendees will leave the Summit feeling part of a larger campus farm community, with the connections, tools, and information to nourish their own communities, organizations, and farms.

2020 Theme

The 2020 Campus Farmer Summit program will focus on the theme of nourishment. Attendees from around the region will gather to consider campus farms as living organisms, and enjoy opportunities to connect and learn about exciting and practical ways to nourish and be nourished by campus farms and our communities.

Audience

Co-hosted by Farm to Institution New England, Stonehill College, and the New England Farm & Sea to Campus Network, the summit gathers students, farmers, and instructors involved with campus farms and food systems, as well as campus farm partners and stakeholders such as school administrators, dining service staff, local for-profit farms, and organizations, agencies, and individuals that are working to nourish healthy students, campuses and food systems.

Program

Stay tuned as we assemble this year’s exciting program. See what happend at the 2018 campus farmer summit.