“Look How Much We’ve Grown”: Bring Food Home Opening Plenary to Celebrate Milestones in the Food Movement
Posted: November 8, 2013
Categories: GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Ontario
Kickstarting Bring Food Home 2013, “Look How Much We’ve Grown: Milestones in the Food Movement” will be an opportunity for some of the food movement’s longest-standing advocates to celebrate our successes over the last 5 years.
Moderated by Bryan Gilvesy, Sustain Ontario Advisory Council co-chair and owner of Y U Ranch, the panel will feature:
• Debbie Field, Executive Director of Foodshare Toronto, speaking to the great strides we’ve made in getting fresh, healthy food into the hands and children and youth in Ontario schools;
• Anan Lololi, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Afri-Can FoodBasket, will look back to the beginnings of the food justice movement and reflect what’s changed and what hasn’t over the last five years.
• Carl Cosack from the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce will speak to overwhelming support for the No mega-quarry campaign and the on-going struggle to protect prime agricultural lands;
• Wayne Roberts, food policy analyst and former manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council, will celebrate the explosion in the number of food charter and food policy councils across Ontario;
We’ve made enormous leaps and bounds since Bring Food Home 2011, and now’s the time to celebrate those changes! It’s also a time to reflect on the great connections and understanding we’ve built as a movement. Come and share what you’ve achieved in your own community and learn from others.