Okay, Local Food Enthusiasts, this weekend is your golden opportunity.
Keynoter LaDonna Redmond comes from a part of Chicago where you can buy drugs and guns, but no organic tomatoes. No grocery stores with fresh veggies, no educated customers, no farm-to-city link. LaDonna tells how she organized innovative ways that have connected organic growers to urban centers.

She is just ONE inspirational speaker at a whole conference packed with experts talking about creating healthy local food systems. This is the 6th Annual Bioneers in Alaska conference, and it is not to be missed. I truly hope you’ll come.

For more information and registration, please see the Bioneers in Alaska website

the Bioneers in Alaska website

Highlights of Bioneers in Alaska Conference:
Creating Sustainable Communities
University of Alaska Anchorage
October 16th-18th.

Great daily plenary sessions from national and international leaders in sustainability beamed in from the national conference – free to all students. Includes Dr. Andrew Weil, Michael Pollan and Sarah James

15 different workshops from local Alaskan experts
ranging from energy efficiency and energy needs in Southcentral Alaska to arctic gardening, permaculture design and economics and social responsibility.
Two free and open to the public keynote addresses at Wendy Williamson Auditorium:

Friday, October 16th - 7:30
Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Community Leader, Community Health Practitioner, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, former Mayor of Nuiqsut
Impacts of Oil and Gas Development on Alaska Native Traditional and Cultural Ways.

Saturday, October 17th – 7:30
LaDonna Redmond, President and CEO of the non-profit Institute for Community Resource Development in Chicago
LaDonna has worked on policy initiatives and in communities with local groups to develop community gardens and school lunch programs supplied with local foods.

Opportunities for Developing Local Food Systems and Increasing Access to Healthy Foods

See you there with and local food and farmer appreciation event to boot!