| About the Growers and Eaters Forum |
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| Thursday, 25 September 2008 00:00 |
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After hosting the successful Cities Feeding People Conference in 2007 Cultivating Community have joined forces with a broad range of passionate community food groups, agencies and local government to bring you the 2008 ‘Growers and Eaters Forum”. The Growers and Eaters Forum is an all day event this November that will aim to bring farmers and food security advocates, community organizers, policy makers, community food projects, local government, businesses etc together with the goal of establishing new food distribution enterprises that will be mutually beneficial to both growers and eaters. Between dealing with the effects of climate change, dwindling oil supplies, increasing costs of transport and housing coupled with the fact that the two big supermarkets are dominating our local food system, it is time to explore alternatives that will support small farmers and make fresh local food accessible to everyone in the community. The success of this forum and the resulting initiatives will depend upon the contribution of eaters and growers, however it is especially dependent on understanding the needs of growers and the effects of the current distribution system on their livelihoods. This forum will be an exciting opportunity for growers and eaters to get together and look at new ways we can feed our communities, now and into the future. |
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'CSA is a new socioeconomic form in which the farmer and consumer enter into a sort of partnership, an alliance to take care of each other's needs' - Farmer John Peterson |
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