Saturday, September 17
12:00pm – 5:30pm at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, $10
Join us for a two-day speaker series featuring national and regional leaders of the good food movement. They will map the course of this exciting revolution and share their personal insights into the future of Good Food.
12:00pm – 1:15pm — Media and Food
Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly
Jonathan Gold, LA Weekly
Russ Parsons, Los Angeles Times
Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post
Moderated by Evan Kleiman, KCRW
2:00pm – 3:15pm — Can Local and Organic Feed the World?
Moderated by Debbie Barker, Center for Food Safety
4:00pm – 5:15pm — 21st Century Meat and Dairy
Cindy Daley, Organic Valley
Chris Ely, Applegate Farms
Mark McAfee, Organic Pastures
Bill Niman, BN Ranch
Mel Coleman, Niman Ranch
Moderated by Jim Slama, FamilyFarmed.org
Sunday, September 18
10:30am – 5:30pm at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School, $10
10:30am – 11:45am — Urban Farming/ Homesteading
Rickey Smith, Urban Green
Erik Knutzen, author, The Urban Homestead
Andy Lipkis, Tree People
Miguel A. Luna, Urban Semillas
Moderated by Craig Ruggless, Winnetka Farms
12:00pm – 1:15pm — Food and Its Environmental Impact
Laurie David, author, The Family Dinner
Chris Elam, Meatless Monday
Robert Kenner, Director and Producer, Food, Inc.
Jyoti Stephens, Nature’s Path
Helene York, Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation
Moderated by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
2:00pm – 3:15pm — Fair Food: Can Good Food Be Available to Everyone?
Barry Estabrook, author, Tomatoland
Robert Gottlieb, author, Food Justice
Neelam Sharma, Community Services Unlimited
Frank Tamborello, Hunger Action Los Angeles
Moderated by Paula Daniels, Senior Advisor on Food Policy, City of Los Angeles
4:00pm – 5:15pm — So You Want to Be a Farmer
Romeo Coleman, Coleman Family Farms
David Karp, Pomologist
Michael O’Gorman, Farmer Veteran Coalition
Marcel Van Ooyen, Grow NYC
Moderated by Dave Runsten, Community Alliance of Family Farmers
