The venue is booked for our Local Food Conference – its all go! It is scheduled for 13 and 14 February  2017 at the Interactive Learning Centre at NorthTec.

Anne Palmer of the Center for a Livable Future is confirmed as keynote speaker. You can read more about Anne here.

Anne is Program Director for the Food Communities & Public Health Program. One of the roles of the Center for a Livable Future is as an information hub for North America’s 282 food policy councils. This positions the Center to monitor the activities of food policy councils and identify the policies and programmes having the greatest impact.

This documentary highlights some of the positive developments towards more sustainable food systems in the United States. Anne was one of two content advisers for the video.