“Hope in Action II” – Rural and Urban Life Gathering

Rethinking our tri-state region’s DIETS

Development, I nvestment, Energy, Taxes and Security

Thursday, Feb. 1

3 p.m. – Check-in and Exhibit Setup

4 p.m. Welcome – Patrick Lenane, Board President

Framing the Challenge & Introductions – Tony Ends, Director, CCLP

5 p.m. Dinner of Local and Regional Foods

6:30 p.m. Ken Meter Presentation – President of Crossroads Resource Center based in Minneapolis will show how economic analysis can motivate change in our communities and region

7:30 p.m. Film Showing – The Great Warming (85 minutes)

9 p.m. Social Hour and Informal Discussions

Friday, Feb. 10

7:30 a.m. – Check-in, coffee & continental OR hot breakfast (pre-register)

8:15 a.m. – Welcome, Introductions, Themes and Thanks

8:30 a.m. – Jack Kloppenburg Presentation - A UW Madison Professor of Rural Sociology; will give an overview of why local food systems are important and talk about REAP, the Farm Fresh Atlas, the Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch farm-to-school program, Food For Thought Festival, and our new Buy Fresh, Madison Buy Local Campaign

9:15 a.m. – Kendall Thu Presentation – Northern Illinois University anthropological researcher, Illinois Stewardship Alliance board member and Illinois Farmer Consumer Coalition, will speak on ways research can partner with local public sectors as agents of change

10 a.m. – Break

10:15 a.m. – Working Group Sessions with Presenters to Develop Regional Task Forces or Working Groups

Noon – Prayer and Feast : Celebration of Local and Regional Foods ( Meal and Harvest of Hope demonstration sale at Cathedral Center, Cathedral of St. Raphael, 231 Bluff St., Dubuque)

1:30 p.m. – Networking/Discussions continue at Cathedral in informal groups

11:30 to 4 p.m. – Harvest of Hope Winter Farmer’s Market Benefit Sale