Slow Food In 2012 I was selected to represent the Midwest region of Slow Food USA at Slow Food’s biannual international conference Terra Madre in Turin Italy. Because of the generous financial support of the SF Chicago chapter, I was able to attend. Slow Food is an organization that links the pleasures of good food… Continue Reading
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NUSOS 2015 – Connections
Connections One of the most astonishing and wonderful things I’ve observed in my years of being a part of the local food movement is the inter-connectedness. One of my favorite examples of this begins in Baltimore Maryland. In 2010, I was speaking, for the first time, at the National Women in Agriculture Conference, a gathering… Continue Reading
NUSOS 2015 Keynote – Farm Story
My Farm Story My story begins, as I said, with a mid life career change. I became a farmer. Photo by Jennifer Moran I did NOT see that coming. To flash back a bit further – My husband grew up on a farm; but, in the late 1980s, no one was encouraging bright young people… Continue Reading