Women at the Forefront of Food System Change

Author Nancy Matsumoto will moderate a panel discussion with four women changemakers who appear in her book, Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System. Panelists Sam Garwin of the regenerative ocean farming non-profit GreenWave; Lisbeth Pacheco co-founder and chief coffee + impact seeker of Ethos Coffee Roasters; grainshed builder June Russell, director of regional food programs at Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming; and Olivia Watkins, co-founder and president of Black Farmer Fund will discuss the challenges and rewards of rebuilding and financing local and regional food systems, or building new regenerative supply chains from the ground up. Also on the agenda: How do their short, direct, and equitable food supply chains differ from the long, extractive and opaque supply chains of Big Food? How can we support and grow this alternative, or “alt” food system?

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