LOCAL FOOD CONNECTS 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Thursday - Friday
March 7th and 8th, 2019
Santa Fe Community College
6401 Richards Ave.
Santa Fe, NM 87508
Registration is now closed for the 21st Annual Conference.
We have met our capacity at the College and sorry that we cannot accept walk-ins.
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THURSDAY: 12 PM - 7 PM Local Food Connects Conference and Dinner
10:30 PM - 12:30 PM Outlet managers only MUST pick up promotional shopping bags. Details were sent to you.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Registration - Jemez Rooms: Main parking lot, through the main entrance to the end of the hallway, past the cafeteria.
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM Welcome, Opening Remarks New Mexico Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Jeff Witte
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM “State of the Plate 2019, ” Denise Miller
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM “What brings you joy in the work you do with local food?” 15 local food activists, farmers, and retailers speak out
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Breakout Sessions
1. “Wholesale is not a Four Letter Word”
2. “Farming Tools That Won’t Give You Blisters”
3. “Rural Farmers’ Markets Forum”
4. “Urban Farmers’ Markets Forum”
5. Native American-focused workshop; James and Joyce Skeet, Spirit Farm in Vanderwagen, NM on the Navajo Nation. "Indigenous Soil Life Farming"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Marketing Tools 2019
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Board Elections
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner and Social at Santa Fe Community College
FRIDAY: 9 AM - 4:15 PM Local Food Connects Conference
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM