January 8th and 9th at the Hotel Mead in Wisconsin Rapids, WI.

Agenda:

Thursday, January 8th
Registration 7:30 – 9:00
Cont. Breakfast 7:30 – 10:00
Welcome 9:00 – 9:30
Breakout A 9:45-11:00

A1 BLBW – Program Overview and Institutional Markets
A2 2008 Farm Bill and Local Food
A3 IT Solutions for Local Food
A4 WI Farm Center – Beginning and Minority Farm Program
A5 Highlighting the Heart of Wisconsin Region

Exhibits/Break 11:00-11:30
Breakout B 11:30-12:45
B1 BLBW – Farm Cooperative Dev. and Consumer Promotion

B2 Nuts and Bolts of Mobile Markets
B3 Design, Implement and Evaluate your Local Food Program
B4 Innovative Food Processing Regulations from Other States
B5 How Food Choices Affect the Environment

Lunch 12:45-1:45
Writing Prize 1:45-2:00
Keynote 2:00-3:00
Break 3:00-3:15
Breakout C 3:15-4:30

C1 BLBW – Farm to Restaurant
C2 Developing a Supply Chain for Local and Regional Foods
C3 Examples of Collab. and Creative Fundraising for Local Foods
C4 Local Food and Food Security
C5 AmeriCorp Farm to School

Social Hour 4:30-6:30

Local Food sampling, Exhibit viewing, Student poster presentation Music by The Reverend Eddie Danger and Dangergrass, http://www.reverendeddiedanger.com/ Cosmic Folk with a Tribal Twist of Jazz

Friday, January 9th
Breakfast 7:00-8:15
General Session 8:30-11:30 Local Experience for Wisconsin Local Food Systems
Exhibits 7:30-11:30



Keynote Speaker: Kate Clancy. Topic: Local Food Systems

Kate Clancy is one of the nation's leading authorities on food systems, with expertise in sustainable agriculture, food policy, food systems planning, organic food, and related topics. She is now a food systems consultant working with many organizations around the country. She has served as a Senior Scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and before that Director of the Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy. Clancy has a Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Cornell and Syracuse universities. She was nutritionist and policy adviser at the Federal Trade Commission and a resident fellow at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy. She has served on numerous boards and committees, and is presently on the board of the Accokeek Foundation. She is also a Senior Fellow in the School of Agriculture Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the University of Minnesota. She was a member of the Board on Agriculture panel that produced the groundbreaking report "Alternative Agriculture" and has published and spoken widely on sustainable agriculture and food systems. Her present interests include the development of regional food systems, the research needed to advance sustainable agriculture policy, the complementary issues of farmland preservation and farm viability, policies and policy research that support the grazing sector, and the misperceptions regarding nutritional qualities of organic food.

Carpooling: We encourage you to carpool from your community to Wisconsin Rapids and back. Follow this link to a wiki where you can list your rideshare options: http://summitcarpooling.pbwiki.com/FrontPage


Friday Session Local Experience for Wisconsin Local Food Systems--When it comes to creating local food systems we are the experts we have been waiting for. You are the leaders in building local food systems across WI and this summit is a once a year opportunity to build our regional and statewide capacity for our work. This is our chance to build on our practical experience in making Wisconsin local food systems stronger. We need you engaged in our structured process:

8:30 - 8:40 Intro and overview - Gerry Campbell, Dane County Food Council

8:40 - 9:20 Kate Clancy Questions and Comments

Guidelines for conversation

• Listen as if each person was truly wise, and sharing some truth that you may have heard before but do not yet fully grasp.
• Listen with an openness to be influenced by the speaker.
• Listen to support the speaker in fully expressing themselves.
• Listen for deeper questions, patterns, insights and emerging perspectives.
• Listen for what is not being spoken along with what is being shared.
• Keep a record on news print pads.

9:20 – 9:50 Where are we in Local Food in the regions of Wisconsin?

Initiatives, Opportunities and Challenges Identify as quickly and concisely as possible. The idea is to get information on the table, then prioritize.

9:50 - 10:05 A quick review of all the opportunities and challenges.

Remix tables so there is a broad multi-region representation in each group.

10:05 – 10:45 Possibilities for collaboration on opportunities or challenges.

Identify and prioritize the between region and across state possibilities. The key is to ask what we can do together in the next 12 months.

10:45 – 11:00 Whole group review of possibilities for action.

11:00 – 11:30 Groups organize around actions and identify who will do what by when.

Put the information on easel tablets so people can see the actions and they can be recorded.

Facilitators will assist with this process. Our Keynote speaker, Kate Clancy, will also stay with us throughout the summit and will offer her reflections as a participant in this session.