Farm to Plate Summit
Bennington County’s Farm to Plate Summit
Come share ideas, get inspired, help create a vision and a plan for Affordable, Abundant Local food. Contribute to Vermont’s ten-year strategic plan to strengthen agriculture, create jobs, bring healthy and sustainable food to all Vermonters, and foster a vibrant local economy.
The summit will be held Nov. 14th, 2009, at St. Peter’s Church 200 Pleasant Street, Bennington, VT. There will be a local food dinner 5:30 - 6:30PM, with a presentation and meeting afterwards.
There will be focus group meetings during the day before the dinner, for more information about joining these meetings, contact the organizers.
A project of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund and Sustainable Agriculture Council, sponsored by the Walloomsac Transition Forum, Transition Town Manchester, the Bennington County Meals Program, and Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church. For information contact Susan Beal, sbeal
shadowbrookfarm [dot] org or Bill Laberge, labergevermontel [dot] net—information about the statewide Farm to Plate Initiative at www.vsjf.org
See the poster (and feel free to put up copies of the poster!)