Join SFU Centre for Dialogue Fellow Peter Ladner and five leading food and land use experts in a lively discussion of Metro Vancouver’s food security plans—or lack of them—on Wed. afternoon, Oct. 21.
Why is food security important?
What would a bio-regional agri-food system look like?
What’s the status of Metro Vancouver’s food security plan?
Where are we making progress?
What still has to be done?
? Moderator Peter Ladner, Fellow, SFU Centre for Dialogue, former Vancouver City Councillor and Vice Chair, Metro Vancouver

? Michael Ableman, author (Fields of Plenty, On Good Land, Beyond Organic) organic farmer (Foxglove Farm, Centre for Art, Ecology and Agriculture), founder Center for Urban Agriculture, Fairview Gardens, Goleta California

? Kent Mullinex, Institute for Sustainable Horticulture, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, former commercial orchard grower

? Jane Pickering, Director of Planning, District of Maple Ridge

? John Savage, President of the Delta Farmers' Institute; former B.C. Minister of Agriculture, Delta municipal councillor, head of B.C. Federation of Agriculture, and chair of the Cranberry Association

? Harold Steves, rancher, Richmond Councillor, Chair, Metro Vancouver Agriculture Committee

Wed. Oct. 21, 2-4:30 pm,
Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre (East- under the sails). Register at www.gaininggroundsummit.com/shoulderprogram.htm: $65 plus GST.
1-250-472-4747