Homegrown: A Conference on Local Food
February 9th and 10th, 2007
Homegrown was sponsored by: Fort Lewis College Environmental Center, Farm-to-School Committee of the Sustainability Alliance of Southwest Colorado, Durango Natural Foods, Fort Lewis College Department of Agriculture, The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado, Turtle Lake Refuge, and Growing Partners of Southwest Colorado. This event is also supported by generous grants from Region 9 Economic Development Corporation and the Healthy Lifestyles Coalition.
Thank you to everyone who made Homegrown such a successs!! We couldn’t have done it without you.
Conference schedule and handout
Frequently Asked Questions
Rebuilding Our Local Food System by Jim Dyer, Southwest Marketing Network
Notes from the conference are now posted online along the La Plata County Community Food Assessment featured at the conference.
If you’d like to get involved with one of task forces coming out of Homegrown, you can contact the following people:
Community Gardens
Shari Fitzgerald
thegardenprojectsw@yahoo.com
Higher Education
Marcus Renner
renner_m@fortlewis.edu
Farm-to-School
Jim Dyer
jadyer@frontier.net
Production, Marketing, and Distribution
Katy Pepinsky
pepinskykp@co.laplata.co.us
Stay tuned for more news about local food in the months and weeks ahead.
Have an idea or question about local food. E-mail ec_food@fortlewis.edu.
