Day Three of the Vermont Food Summit!

   Today is the day where we bring our ideas and action to the table!  
Lets create some lasting change that will extend beyond this week!

   Special guests in the Food Lounge from 10am-12pm today are...  
VERMONT COFFEE COMPANY!

   They are bringing their expresso machine and will be handing out  
samples! Check it out, before you go up to the Livak Ballroom for the..

   FUTURE OF FOOD OPEN SPACE FORUM!

   Three Sessions from 10:30-1:30 in Livak Ballroom

   This event is the ?table?, and you are all invited. It is where we  
turn the seeds into a garden, or take the ideas and turn them into  
action. The day will be divided into three sessions (#1 10:30-11:30am,  
#2, 11:30-12:30pm, and #3 12:30-1:30pm) and each one will provide 5-6  
presenters who have an idea or current project that they want to turn  
into action. It can be anything from starting a garden on the  
University green, to requiring every student to carry their own  
utensils into the dining hall. There will be a note taker in each  
group that will compile all of the discussions and contact information  
into a publication that will be posted on the Vermont Food Summit  
website. Presentations range from on campus gardens to how to  
collaborate with agricultural community partners.

   Special Food Lounge Presenter at Noon Today!

   Susan Rubin, DMD, HHC[1] is a school food activist who has been  
active on the school food front for over a decade.  As the issues of  
childhood obesity and declining children's health have become  
epidemic, her work as a food expert and health educator has become  
critically important on a local and national level. Susan is the  
founder of Better School Food and a co-leader of Slow Food Westchester  
in NY. She will be talking about...

   "WHEN IT COMES TO FOOD & HEALTH, nutrients aren't the answer! 
Learn how we lost our way and how to build your Food IQ!"

   The students of the Real Food Challenge met Susan at a conference  
workshop in February, and she gave them the tools to confidently know  
what is wrong with our food system. We are very lucky to have her at  
the Vermont Food Summit, so make sure you don't miss it!!

   TOUR OF THE UVM DAIRY BARN!

   3pm, meet at the Dairy Barn on Spear Street

    Bike or walk to the dairy barn and meet the students of the CREAM  
program! Learn about what they do, literally, everyday, hear their  
plans to reopen the Dairy Bar on campus, and meet a few cows while you  
are out there!

    (a nice walk and bike ride!)

   SHOWING OF KING CORN!

   7pm Tonight, location moved to Slade Hall***

    King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of  
corn, and the subsided crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King  
Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east  
coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes. With the  
held of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen  
fertilizers and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop  
of Americas most productive, most subsided grain on one acre of Iowa  
soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food  
system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-  
and how we farm.

   TOMORROW- LOCAL FOODS POTLUCK AND

   CONTRA DANCE!

   GO TO THE WEBSITE FOR THE REST OF THE EVENTS FOR THE WEEK!  
http://www.uvm.edu/~vfs[2]



Links:
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[1] http://www.drsusanrubin.com/
[2] http://www.uvm.edu/~vfs