Superior Grown Food Summit, regional support network continues to grow

Posted by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin on November 6, 2009

I will be a speaker at the Superior Grown Food Summit on Saturday November 14th. This opportunity emerged as a result of networking with folks from that region during the recent From Commodity to Community food security conference in Des Moines, Iowa. In IA, where I was also a speaker during one of the plenary sessions I had a chance to expose our work to a network of over 400 community food coalition members and business leaders. It helped to have Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speak right before. Many more opportunities for networking and building support for our system deployment have come as a result of these conference.

At the Superior Grown Food Summit my concentration will be on engaging bio-regions as we further study the ability of large scale engagement and reproduction of our systems, specifically the integrated agriculture infrastructure to produce short-term gains through poultry production without compromising the engagement of the larger biological regions or ecological corridors.