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Conference Highlights Cost-Effective Strategies for “Making the Shift” to Local Sustainable Meat and Poultry Purchasing
The Sustainable Foods Program of MD H2E hosted nearly 100 food service professionals, farmers, distributors and other stakeholders on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at the Ten Oaks Ballroom and Conference Center in Clarksville, Maryland to learn and share cost-effective strategies that work for institutional purchasers. The conference, entitled “Local Sustainable Meat & Poultry: Making the Shift in Institutional Purchasing” was hosted in partnership with the Healthy Food in Health Care program of Health Care Without Harm. Below are links to the speakers’ presentations, conference schedule, pictures and the conference resource guide. You can also see brief interviews of some of our conference attendees and exhibitors.
Speaker Presentations – Videos, Audio Recordings and Power Point Presentations
Full Conference Schedule with session descriptions
Additional photographs from the conference
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Voices from the May 5th Conference
Shane Hughes, Liberty Delight Farms
Keeve Nachmann, Johns Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future
Ken Looking Hill, KCC Farms
Jeanette McClellan, Cleaner Greener America Foundation
Stever Gold, Murray’s Chicken
Buzz Morrisey, Hearn Kirkwood
Renee Catacalos, Future Harvest
Maryland Farm to School
Karen Fedor, Maryland Department of Agriculture, Maryland Farm to School
Stewart Eidel, Maryland Department of Education, Maryland Farm to School
Sara Twist, Maryland Department of Education, Maryland Farm to School
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Thank You to Our Conference Partners
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Thank You to Our Conference Sponsors/Exhibitors
