Farm Food Fork: Raising the Steaks
Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/03/2015
All Day
Location
The Spirit Bar@ The Hume Hotel
Category(ies)
Do you ever wonder how we, as consumers, can be more aware and responsible about the meat we eat? What can farmers do to sustainably increase their production and provide more local meat to the region? How can funders and policy makers help facilitate and support the changes necessary to increase production in our region? Can restaurants and local businesses bring more local meat onto their menu while still remaining affordable to consumers?
After the success of the 2014 conference where over 400 people met to celebrate and discuss our local food system, Farm Food Fork returns in 2015 for a one day event focused on the pressing issue of producing local meat (the full two day conference will return in 2016).
The daytime event will engage STEAKholders in some of the key issues around meat production, including; best practice animal management, local abattoirs, capacity building, capital investment and feed sourcing. Our keynote presenter, farmer Felix Schellenberg from the Chilcotin valley, will be sharing his family’s experiences of building a federally inspected on-farm abattoir, selling direct to customers through their Vancouver butcher shop ‘Pasture to Plate’, and how he has incorporated rotational grazing and biodynamic principles into the farm operation. The day will feature several additional expert speakers from the local region and further afield, facilitated panel discussions, solutions-based discussion groups, and the opportunity to meet and network with other stakeholders in the area.
The evening event will invite STEAKeaters to indulge in an offal feast, enjoy a live butchery session and cooking demos. Attendees will learn about the problems with our industrial food system as well as find out about some of the positive solutions to these issues, through keynote presentations, short ‘grassFED Talks’ and films.
This is a great opportunity to gather together as a community and look at how we, as a region, can sustainably produce more of our own meat and strive towards better food security.
Put Friday 27th March in your diary and visit www.farmfoodfork.com for more information. Tickets will be released at the start of March. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
Farm Food Fork is organised by the West Kootenay Permaculture Coop, a not for profit group made up of farmers, processors, retailers, and industry consultants; all passionate about local food, agriculture and seeing our region’s food based economy improve.
