Workshop Schedule
1:00-2:00
12:00-1:00
10:45-11:45
9:30-10:30
7:50-8:20
8:20-9:15
Breakfast & Check-In
Opening Keynote Address: Jennifer MacDougall, Healthy Active Communities
Senior Program Officer – Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC Foundation
AWARDS PRESENTATION
Beginning
Advanced
Marketing
Farm to School
Community
Local Catch
Farming
Farming
Health
Accessing
Community
Ready-To-Sell:
Extending the
Farm to School:
The Business
NCDA
Gardens in
Creating
Innovative
Season with
The Buyer Seller
of Farming
Resources and
Health Care
Seafood Products
Hoop Houses
Relationship
through
Annette
Markets
Settings
Sanjun Gu,
Heather Barnes,
Partnerships
Dunlap,
Kevin Hardison,
Megg Rader,
NC Catch
NCA&T
NCDA&CS, NC
NCDA&CS
NCDA&CS
Alliance Medical
Sea Grant
Farm to School
Ministry
Options in
Sell More!
The
Agriculture:
Working
Enriching Your
Improving Vendor
Fisherman’s
Sustaining Your
Together for
Farm to School:
Sales at Your
Soil
Story:
Farm Operation Farmers’ Market
Local Food
Impact on
Noah Ranells,
Responsible Stewards
Farmer Panel
Christy Shi-Day,
Education
of the Environment
Mike McCreary,
NCA&T
Facilitated by
CEFS
Panel
ASAP
Eric Soderholm
NC FoodCorps
Service
Increasing Foot
Members;
Basics of Drip Solar Energy on Traffic at Your
Growing a Healthy Economy with
Emily Jackson,
Irrigation
the Farm
Farmers’
Local Foods
ASAP and F2S
Grace
Chad Ray,
Market
Becky Bowen and Susan Jakes,
Coalition
Summers,
Sun-Raised
Mike McCreary,
NC-CES
NCA&T
Farms
ASAP
Keynote Speaker: Randy Gore, USDA
State Director of Rural Development,
NC StrikeForce Initiative
Local Farm Food Feast
2:15-3:45
Micro-workshops
GAP
Certification
Trish Tripp, CFSA
Food Safety
Modernization
Act Update
Jared Cates,
CFSA
Decoding the
Farm Bill
James Robinson,
RAFI
SNAP Access for
Farmers’
Markets
Mike McCreary,
ASAP
3:45-4:15 Regional Networking
Locally Grown:
Farming for
Profit
Tony Kleese,
EarthWise
Organics
How We Opened a
Restaurant in Our
High School
Chef Steven Dibble,
Reid Ledbetter,
and Jada Taylor,
Scotland County
High School
Food as the
Framework for
Healthy
Communities
Karla Capacetti,
Farmer FoodShare;
Erin O’Donnell,
FDE Food
Sovereignty;
Morgan Davis,
Fork to Fit
Aquaponics
for Retail Sales
Dave Silvia,
Centripetal
Farms;
Matt Rogers,
UNCW Campus
Dining