Gardens Project Goes to the Food Security Conference!

Tarney, Miles, Cassie, and Belinda are all heading to the 15th Annual Community Food Security Conference
from Friday Nov. 4 until Tuesday Nov. 8.

Over the past 15 years, CFSC has worked to catalyze a broad and far-reaching food systems movement. Each year, CFSC brings people together to learn from each other and to shape the future of the food movement. CFSC held its first conference with 170 attendees in Los Angeles in 1997 and this year they are returning to California for "Food Justice: Honoring our Roots, Growing the Movement."

CFSC and the movement have grown exponentially, and so has the annual conference! There will be over 1,000 participants from almost every state, many Canadian provinces, and five continents. The California Food California Food and Justice Coalition and Food First will be the conference hosts and have teamed up with many Bay Area organizations to help CFSC put on a fantastic event.


We are all very excited to attend this conference where we will share, learn, and network with other individuals and organizations working to rebuild the food system!

Some of the workshops we will be attending include how to incorporate garden and farm produce into school cafeterias, what food policy councils are working on in other cities across the country, how to develop community food leaders, what cities are doing with urban farms and how they are incorporating youth, and many, many more exciting food-related topics!