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Wednesday, October 08, 2014
15th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference is Friday and Saturday in Louisville
The 15th Annual Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference is scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday in Louisville. This year's theme is "Real Homeland Security: Food, Health and Community." Guest speakers are; Kentucky novelist and farming advocate Wendell Berry; Georgia cattle rancher Will Harris; Dr. Daphne Miller, a family physician, writer and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California San Francisco; Montana rancher Darby Minow Smith; and Daniel Tucker, assistant professor at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Cost is $35 for the conference and $35 for the Harvest Dinner and Celebration. (Read more)
Labels:
agriculture,
farms,
food,
journalism education,
local food
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