June 19 – 2:00 to 3:00 eastern time – CSPI Food Day Webinar on Food Policy Councils with Mark Winne. To register go to http://www.foodday.org/webinars
June 25 – Utica, New York – Food Policy Council workshop. For more information contact win5m@aol.com.
June 27 & 28 – Johns Hopkins University. For more information contact win5m@aol.com.
July 9 – San Bernardino, California – Food Policy Council training with Roots of Change from 9 to 1 Pacific time. For more information contact Tiffany Nurrenbern at tiffany@rootsofchange.org.
July 10 – Richmond, California – Food Policy Council training with Roots of Change from 1 to 5 Pacific time. Contact Tiffany at tiffany@rootsofchange.org.
August 14 – Duluth, Minnesota – 8:45 AM Central Time. Food Access Summit keynote address. For more information contact Ryan Johnson at ryan.johnson1@state.mn.us.
September 9 – 12 – Iowa Blue Zone Community Workshops: Cedar Rapids – 9/9; Muscatine – 9/10; Sioux City – 9/12. For more information contact Jennifer Fulner at Jennifer.furler@healthways.com
September 18 – 20 – Tucson, Arizona – Closing the Hunger Gap: Cultivating Food Security Conference. Keynote presentation. For more information contact Leona Davis at LDavis@communityfoodbank.org.
September 25 – Washington, DC – 9 AM to 1 PM – Food policy council workshop sponsored by the DC Convergence. For more information contact Lindsay Smith at lindsayplans@gmail.com.
October 1 – 3 – Red Deer, Alberta (Canada) – Re-Think Red Deer food system planning charrette. Keynote address. For more information contact Rene Michalak at info@rethinkreddeer.ca.
October 16 – Kingston, NY – full day food policy council training for the Ulster County Food Policy Council. For more information contact Alma Rodriquez at ar558@cornell.edu.
October 17 – Hartford, Connecticut – Conference for Connecticut’s state and local food policy councils. For more information contact Jean King at jeancking@gmail.com.
October 18 – 19 – New Haven, Conn. – Yale Food System Symposium. Presentation and workshop on food policy councils. Date, time, and location to be determined.
November 13 -14- Chicago, Illinois – Public Health Institute food policy council training. Exact time and locations to be determined.
December 9 – 12 – Florida food policy council training workshops: 12/10 – Miami; 12/11 – Orlando; 12/12 – Jacksonville. For more information contact Colleen Perdue at colleencooksmia@gmail.com.