Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
1:00 – 2:30pm ET
Online webinar
Register Here (*required)
Regenerative agriculture has been hailed as a potential solution to the climate crisis.
Experts at Project Drawdown estimate that making just small changes in the way we grow food can offer big solutions to the climate crisis while also providing myriad co-benefits, including water conservation, more nutrient dense foods, and community resilience.
But how do entire foodsheds or communities transition from conventional to regenerative food systems? What are the levers of change? What are the hurdles to overcome? And how is regenerative agriculture putting down roots at a regional level in the Northeast?
Meet some of the people and organizations laying the groundwork for scaling regenerative agriculture in the Hudson Valley, as we connect the dots across the food system, from producers to consumers to scientists to activists, and learn how regenerative agriculture intersects with other values in the food movement.
We will explore
- How regenerative agriculture differs from “conventional” food production in its environmental, economic, and other impacts.
- Challenges and opportunities related to the transition of land to regenerative management.
- How producers, consumers, scientists, chefs, activists and others across the food system can operationalize the science, actively draw down carbon and increase resilience by establishing a regenerative economy.
- Ways citizens and policy-makers can take action and ways to get involved.
Join CFF to learn how five different organizations are cultivating climate resilience from the ground up. Speakers include:
- Ben Dobson, Hudson Carbon
- Laura Lengnick, Glynwood
- Anthony Myint, Zero Foodprint
- D Rooney, Rock Steady Farm
- Ned Sullivan, Scenic Hudson & Northeast Carbon Alliance
Co-sponsored by The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation
More about the presenting organizations
The Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming is a non-profit organization serving food and farming changemakers from New York’s Hudson Valley and beyond. Glynwood’s mission is to ensure the Hudson Valley is a region defined by food, where farming thrives. Our vision is a Hudson Valley where farmers prosper, food entrepreneurs succeed, residents are nourished and visitors are inspired.
Rock Steady is a queer owned and operated cooperative vegetable farm rooted in social justice, food access and farmer training. We believe everyone has the right to high quality produce; food access and social justice inform our business model
Scenic Hudson preserves land and farms and creates parks that connect people with the inspirational power of the Hudson River, while fighting threats to the river and natural resources that are the foundation of the valley’s prosperity. The organization has emerged as a state and regional leader in developing regenerative agriculture policy and in advancing both the science and practice of carbon farming through the Northeast Carbon Alliance.
Hudson Carbon is an on-farm soil laboratory. We study how organic regenerative farming can maximize carbon capture and restore ecosystems.
Zero Foodprint (ZFP) is a nonprofit organization mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. ZFP members crowd-fund grants for farmers to switch to regenerative farming practices—proven to be the most impactful initiative yet towards solving global warming.