Join the conversation by following us on Twitter or tweeting with #foodlab11! Dear Good Food Entrepreneur, Activist, Professional, Researcher, and Policy-Maker,
We are excited to invite you to join us at the Atheneum Hotel in downtown Detroit April 19-21, 2011 for a three-day participatory conference and incubation laboratory designed to develop innovative solutions and document best practices for distributing local and regional food, with a focus on underserved communities.
A creative incubation laboratory, designed for doers. This is an participant-driven, action-oriented conference, centered around the development of seven real-world businesses and six distribution-related issue teams, led by good food advocates like you from around the country. On the first day, conference participants will self-select onto a team. Over the next three days, you will work together in these teams to help build actual businesses, solve existing business challenges, develop research projects, and identify best practices to help tackle the challenge of local and regional food distribution logistics, infrastructure, and transportation. For more background on teams, click here. The action starts now. Sign up for the conference discussion group to find a roommate, discuss which team you plan to join at the conference, and begin to share ideas and resources. Help identify best practices and research opportunities. While this conference is designed to foster innovation, experimentation, and new business and project development, we also recognize that there is a lot to be learned from already-existing local food distribution initiatives throughout the country. Proceedings from this conference will be used to inform policy-makers, funders, and advocates especially in the fields of public health, economic development, agriculture, and planning on ways to support development of regional food distribution, especially serving disadvantaged communities, through training and education, infrastructure investment, or policy change. Participants at the conference will help to identify research opportunities in regional and local food distribution, focusing in particular on research needs for the next five years. We look forward to working with you in Detroit this April! Sincerely, The Making Good Food Work Organizing Team |
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