Location? Please mention City/State

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ACGA MEMBERS:
PLEASE MENTION YOU LOCATION IN YOUR EMAILS.  GARDEN NAME ALONE DOESN'T HELP WHEN PEOPLE ARE READING THESE MESSAGES FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.  PLEASE PROVIDE CITY AND STATE...PLANTING ZONE WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL SOMETIMES.  THANKS!  LYNNE

From: Betsy Johnson
Sent: 8/8/2005 9:44:41 AM
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Subject: [cg] CFSC Conf in Atlanta - Oct 6-9

> Community Food Security Coalition Conference comes to Atlanta
> October 6-9, 2005
> 
> The Community Food Security Coalition celebrates its 9th Annual
> Community
> Food Security Conference with a "Home Grown" theme in Atlanta, GA at the
> Westin Peachtree Plaza on October 6th thru 9th, 2005. CFSC brings this
> educational and empowering event to the home of the civil rights
> movement,
> with the intent of "cultivating the roots of real change" in food
> security
> and social justice.
> 
> Some 51 interactive workshops and panels will feature speakers from the
> frontlines of the community food sector. There are also pre-conference
> short
> course trainings in Organic Certification, developing and strengthening
> coalitions, protecting the civil rights of those you work with, and half
> a
> dozen field trips to local farms and urban gardens.
> 
> Projected to bring together some 600 practitioners from communities
> throughout North America, the conference provides an abundance of
> information and stimulating dialogue, grounded in solutions to the
> health
> and community development challenges facing both urban and rural
> communities.
> 
> The Community Food Security Coalition is a North American organization
> of
> environmental, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community
> development,
> gardening and anti-poverty and anti-hunger groups. CFSC seeks to develop
> self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and creating
> systems of growing, manufacturing processing, distributing and selling
> food
> that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of equity,
> health
> and sustainability.
> 
> The 9th Annual Food Security Conference is hosted by the University of
> Georgia Cooperative Extension Atlanta Urban Gardening Program in
> partnership
> with the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Georgia Organics, Federation of
> Southern Cooperatives and Southern SAWG.
> 
> For more information or to register log onto: www.foodsecurity.org
> 
> 
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