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	Sustainable Communities Network is a commnity-based non-profit organization located in Lexington,Ky that endeavors to educate, inspire, build, create and empower sustainable cities We welcome any amount of contributions to our on-going programs Thanks for your donation! We encourage you to read our SCN Annual Report 2009 Back 2 Nature project Report Sustainable Communities Network contributed articles, photographs and quotes for this book. Join our garden network! SCN For current Community Gardening events in Lexington, click any of the images below	Bluegrass Food Security Summit "Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities" Track #4 Local Food System : Food and Faith Community Food Security & Faith Community forum invites all faith community leadership and laypersons to discuss community food security issues and to provide entry points for people of faith to work together to make important connections between our food systems, our lifestyles, social justice, environmental stewardship and, respect and care for the created order. People and groups coming from a faith-based orientation can strengthen the food security coalition, increase secular groups' understanding of how to work with faith communities, and broaden the perspectives and vision of the movement. This workshop will consider the moral and religious implications of the way in which we, as a society, produce and distribute our food, and will work to translate our values into action. As an interfaith program, this workshop seeks to build a dynamic network of individuals, congregations, and faith-based organizations that can exchange insights and work together to make positive change in our food system. This workshop will provide report on efforts of faith community with CSAs, community gardens, fair trade etc planting organic vegetable gardens serving fair-trade coffee at their events holding dinners with locally, sustainably, and humanely produced foods participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs hosting cooking, canning, and preserving classes educating their own faith community about food related issues Develop a Blugrass Food and Faith Project: To partner with Bluegrass area faith communities and religious organizations of all faith traditions to promote a just, safe, and trustworthy food system that allows us to produce what is needed now and for future generations in a way that protects people, animals, land, air, and water. Bluegrass Food Security Summit 8:00 Registration 8:30 Welcome and Introductions GENERAL SESSION WITH ALL PARTICIPANTS PART I: THE BIG PICTURE 8:40 Looking at Kentucky’s Food Security What is a Secure and Sustainable Food System? Kentucky Agriculture, What Are We Growing and Where Are We Going? Macro Trends For Kentucky Food Security: Food Imports, Food Exports, Hunger, Economic “Leakages” Discussion 9:40 Participant Mini-Visioning for Kentucky’s Food Security Developing a Vision for Kentucky’s Food System – what would be visionary yet realistic goals for enhancing Kentucky’s food system security in the next 10 years? 10:00 Break Faith and Food Forum Mary and Joseph Room MC-5 10:30am An Inter-faith Approach to Food and Faith: General overview and discussion of faith calling to stewardship of our Food System. What are the moral and religious implications of the way in which we, as a society, produce and distribute our food? How can we work to translate our values into action? Mark Johnson and Cynthia Cain, Interfaith Alliance 11:00am Healthy Food, Local Farms, and Faith Community Reports on model initiatives to involve faith community in support of sustainable, fair, nutritious, and affordable food system, community gardens, hoop houses, composting, CSAs and other faith strategies to support local Farmers *Panel members: Ginny Ramsey, Catholic Action Center Chad Mueller, Fresh Stop First Presbyterian Church; Lisa Satin and Rabbi Moshe Smolkin, Ohavay Zion Synagogue; Beth Dotson Brown, author of Yes! I Am Catholic; Kathy Werking, Bedford Acres Christian Church. Mark Johnson, Central Baptist Church Cynthia Cain Unitarian Universalist Church Erica Horn, Beaumont Presbyterian Church 12:15 Lunch* 1:15 Reconvene in Mary and Joseph Room. Faith and Food participants walk across the street to Pete Clausing’s house and front yard to observe natural habitat and landscaping. *1:40* continued Healthy Food, Local Farms, and Faith Community Reports on model initiatives to involve faith community in support of sustainable food system. *Panel members continued: Ginny Ramsey, Chad Mueller, Lisa Satin and Rabbi Moshe Smolkin, Beth Dotson Brown, Kathy Werking, Mark Johnson, Cynthia Cain , Erica Horn, 2:45pm Working Together to affect Public Policy* How do we build a dynamic network of individuals, congregations, and faith-based organizations that can exchange insights and work together to make positive change in our food system. How can we connect all of these different issues together, to create an integrated interfaith approach to Kentucky’s food security? 4:00 Wrap up of Summit reconvene with other workshops in the Chalice Room Small group sharing of results/top ideas Next steps 4:30 Adjourn Purpose of the Workshop Who should attend? Food Security & Faith Community forum invites all faith community leadership and laypersons to discuss community food security issues and to provide entry points for people of faith to work together to make important connections between our food systems, our lifestyles, social justice, environmental stewardship and, respect and care for the created order Meals Included in the cost of the registration are two—dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday. The meals will also include as much locally produced food as possible. Feel free to bring your own bowl/plate and utensils for dinner/lunch. Sponsors Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools Initiative, UK Tracy Farmer Center, Sustainable Communities Network, Kentucky School Garden Network, Bluegrass School and Community Garden Network, Terrapin Hill Farms, Central KY Council for Peace and Justice, Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community, Questions/Information: call (859)312-7024 or email embryjim@gmail.com Fees & Registration The registration fee for the Friday March 19 Food Security Summi $45. The Thursday March 18 Recognition Dinner fee is $20. But no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There are scholarship opportunities to cover the registration fee. You can apply by completing the registration page and writing in “requesting a scholarship”. Location The Bluegrass Food Security Summit will take place in Lexington, Kentucky at the Crestwood Christian Church at 1182 Bellefonte Drive located off of Albany Rd, between Tates Creek and Nicholasville Rds. , across the street from Glendover Elementary School. Workshops Tracks click each track for details: 1)Food Security: Regional Approach and Food Policy Council, 2)Food Security: Youth Engagement; 3)Food Security: School Gardens-" A Garden At Every School in Kentucky"; 4 )Food Security: Faith Community and Food For Food Summit statement of purpose click here For Food Summit agenda click here Fees & Registration The registration fee for the Friday March 19 Workshop is $45. The Thursday March 18 Recognition Dinner fee is $20. But no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There are scholarship opportunities to cover the registration fee. You can apply by completing the registration page and writing in “requesting a scholarship”.

Sustainable Communities Network is a commnity-based non-profit organization located in Lexington,Ky that endeavors to educate, inspire, build, create and empower sustainable cities

We welcome any amount of contributions to our on-going programs

Thanks for your donation!

We encourage you to read our

SCN Annual Report 2009

Back 2 Nature project Report

Sustainable Communities Network contributed articles, photographs and quotes for this book.

Join our garden network!

SCN For current Community Gardening events in Lexington, click any of the images below

Bluegrass Food Security Summit

"Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities"
Track #4 Local Food System : Food and Faith Community

Food Security & Faith Community forum invites all faith community leadership and laypersons to discuss community food security issues and to provide entry points for people of faith to work together to make important connections between our food systems, our lifestyles, social justice, environmental stewardship and, respect and care for the created order. People and groups coming from a faith-based orientation can strengthen the food security coalition, increase secular groups' understanding of how to work with faith communities, and broaden the perspectives and vision of the movement. This workshop will consider the moral and religious implications of the way in which we, as a society, produce and distribute our food, and will work to translate our values into action. As an interfaith program, this workshop seeks to build a dynamic network of individuals, congregations, and faith-based organizations that can exchange insights and work together to make positive change in our food system.
This workshop will provide report on efforts of faith community with CSAs, community gardens, fair trade etc

planting organic vegetable gardens

serving fair-trade coffee at their events

holding dinners with locally, sustainably, and humanely produced foods

participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs

hosting cooking, canning, and preserving classes

educating their own faith community about food related issues

Develop a Blugrass Food and Faith Project: To partner with Bluegrass area faith communities and religious organizations of all faith traditions to promote a just, safe, and trustworthy food system that allows us to produce what is needed now and for future generations in a way that protects people, animals, land, air, and water.
Bluegrass Food Security Summit
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome and Introductions

GENERAL SESSION WITH ALL PARTICIPANTS

PART I: THE BIG PICTURE

8:40 Looking at Kentucky’s Food Security

What is a Secure and Sustainable Food System?

Kentucky Agriculture, What Are We Growing and Where Are We Going?

Macro Trends For Kentucky Food Security: Food Imports, Food Exports, Hunger, Economic “Leakages”

Discussion

9:40 Participant Mini-Visioning for Kentucky’s Food Security

Developing a Vision for Kentucky’s Food System – what would be visionary yet realistic goals for enhancing Kentucky’s food system security in the next 10 years?

10:00 Break

Faith and Food Forum      Mary and Joseph Room MC-5

10:30am An Inter-faith Approach to Food and Faith: General overview and discussion of faith calling to stewardship of our Food System. What are the moral and religious implications of the way in which we, as a society, produce and distribute our food? How can we work to translate our values into action?

Mark Johnson and Cynthia Cain, Interfaith Alliance

11:00am Healthy Food, Local Farms, and Faith Community                                         Reports on model initiatives to involve faith community in support of sustainable, fair, nutritious, and affordable food system, community gardens, hoop houses, composting, CSAs and other faith strategies to support local Farmers

Panel members:

Ginny Ramsey, Catholic Action Center

Chad Mueller, Fresh Stop First Presbyterian Church;

Lisa Satin and Rabbi Moshe Smolkin, Ohavay Zion Synagogue;

Beth Dotson Brown, author of Yes! I Am Catholic;

Kathy Werking, Bedford Acres Christian Church.

Mark Johnson, Central Baptist Church

Cynthia Cain Unitarian Universalist Church

Erica Horn, Beaumont Presbyterian Church

12:15 Lunch

1:15 Reconvene in Mary and Joseph Room. Faith and Food participants walk across the street to Pete Clausing’s house and front yard to observe natural habitat and landscaping.

1:40 continued Healthy Food, Local Farms, and Faith Community Reports on model initiatives to involve faith community in support of sustainable food system.

Panel members continued: Ginny Ramsey, Chad Mueller, Lisa Satin and Rabbi Moshe Smolkin, Beth Dotson Brown, Kathy Werking, Mark Johnson, Cynthia Cain , Erica Horn,

2:45pm Working Together to affect Public Policy How do we build a dynamic network of individuals, congregations, and faith-based organizations that can exchange insights and work together to make positive change in our food system. How can we connect all of these different issues together, to create an integrated interfaith approach to Kentucky’s food security?

4:00 Wrap up of Summit reconvene with other workshops in the Chalice Room

Small group sharing of results/top ideas Next steps

4:30 Adjourn

Purpose of the Workshop

Who should attend?

Food Security & Faith Community forum invites all faith community leadership and laypersons to discuss community food security issues and to provide entry points for people of faith to work together to make important connections between our food systems, our lifestyles, social justice, environmental stewardship and, respect and care for the created order

  Meals

Included in the cost of the registration are two—dinner on Thursday and lunch on Friday. The meals will also include as much locally produced food as possible. Feel free to bring your own bowl/plate and utensils for dinner/lunch.

Sponsors Kentucky Green and Healthy Schools Initiative, UK Tracy Farmer Center, Sustainable Communities Network, Kentucky School Garden Network, Bluegrass School and Community Garden Network, Terrapin Hill Farms, Central KY Council for Peace and Justice, Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community,

Questions/Information: call (859)312-7024 or email embryjim@gmail.com

Fees & Registration

The registration fee for the Friday March 19 Food Security Summi $45. The Thursday March 18 Recognition Dinner fee is $20. But no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There are scholarship opportunities to cover the registration fee. You can apply by completing the registration page and writing in “requesting a scholarship”.

Location
The Bluegrass Food Security Summit will take place in Lexington, Kentucky at the Crestwood Christian Church at 1182 Bellefonte Drive located off of Albany Rd, between Tates Creek and Nicholasville Rds. , across the street from Glendover Elementary School.
Workshops Tracks click each track for details:

1)Food Security: Regional Approach and Food Policy Council,

2)Food Security: Youth Engagement;

3)Food Security: School Gardens-" A Garden At Every School in Kentucky";

4 )Food Security: Faith Community and Food

For Food Summit statement of purpose click here

For Food Summit agenda click here
Fees & Registration The registration fee for the Friday March 19 Workshop is $45. The Thursday March 18 Recognition Dinner fee is $20. But no one will be turned away for lack of funds. There are scholarship opportunities to cover the registration fee. You can apply by completing the registration page and writing in “requesting a scholarship”.