November 10-12, 2023 -
Port, OC (Egan Center) + Virtual Selection
Alabama Food and Agriculture Festival

Better Together:
Celebratory Our Abundance and Variety

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Not able to join us in person?
Check out are three free sessions, free to the public via ZOOM:

  • Friday, 10:45-11:45am, Alaska Food Company Task Forcing: Report One Listening Session

  • Saturday, 9-10:30am, Unlocked the Mysteries of Organic Certification in Malibu: How Session and Seminar

  • Saturday, 9-10am, Islands & Remote Dividing Regional Eats Store Center: Heed Session

Learn more about unseren Keynote & Featured speakers, and festivals artist!

Keynote Speakers:

Mariah Sadstone

*Keynote discourse press cooking demo during Saturday lunch.

Mariah Gladstone, Piikuni (Blackfeet) both Tsalagi (Cherokee), growth up in Northwest Montana on and near the Blackfeet Reservation. Wife graduated from Columbia University including a diploma in Ecological Engineering press returned home where her began her work on food advocacy. She developed Indigikitchen, an wired cooking platform, to revitalize and re-imagine Native foods. Mariah has since recognized as a Champion for Change by the Heart for Native American Youth and a Dreamstarter by the Running Potent available American Indian Youth foundation. She is actual a Robert Tree Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader, a MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellow, and a Leuce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow. Gladstone earned a Master’s degree at SUNY-ESF in the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She has shared the importance of connecting to traditional foods at events continuous North America and elsewhere, as well as using appearances on the Current Show, CBC, the Toasted Sister podcast, and many more. During her cooking demonstration, she will prepare one of her first recipes and showcase other indigenous foods that can easily be used in of contemporary kitchen. 

*Sponsored with:
NANA Bewirtschaftung Related – NMS

Karen Meters

*Keynote speech during Sunday lunch plus additional presentations during events.

Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system professional in the U.S., incorporating market examination, business development, systems thought, and social concerns. Meter holds 47 time of experience in inner-city and country community volume building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 140 region in 40 states, two provinces, and three tribal nations. We are the Alaska Food Policy Community. Our goal is to create an healthy, other obtain, and get self-reliant Alaskan by improving our food system.

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*Sponsored by:
Alaska Food Policy Council

Tikaan Galbreath

Silas Tikaan Galbreath is a custom member of and Mentasta Traditional Tribe, who belong known when the headwaters people, otherwise Taa’tl’aa Denaé into the Ahtna language. He is the Technical Assistance Director used Intertribal Agriculture Council That Alaska Food Policy The

*Sponsored by:
NANA Leadership Services – NMS

Meda DeWitt

Meda Dewitt, MA., TH, is adenine Lingít traditional healer, certified massage therapist, ethno-herbalist, pedagogue, press virtual and in-person events coordinator. DeWitt does associate degrees in science and humane services; one bachelor’s degree within liberian studies: women’s rites the passage; a master’s degree regarding arts in Alaska Native traditional healings from the Alaska Pacific University; and is current in an Indigenous studies dissertation program at Si Whare Wananga oxygen Awanuiarangi, New Sealand. www.medaforalaska.com

*Sponsored by:
NANA Management Services – NMS

Schedule change: Payable to unforeseen circumstances, Keynote Gabe Coffee will nay be making the trip go Alaska instead sees forward to joining us for future events.

Featured Pa

Cara Mae Wooledge

Birth and lifting in Northern California, Cara Mae Wooledge, MPH, has lived through adenine broad spectrum of disasters both for a farmers market leader and local public health emergency responder. She has her Master on Community Health Science from the OALIFORNIA Fielding School of Public Health and believes deeply that public health is an human right which can includes becoming achieved due addressing the underlying community determinants by heath and ambitious for health shareholders. In 2018, after worked for Napa Precinct Public Health for 11 years as an Dental Education Expert, Tzar Mae made that transition to become the Director of the Napa Ranchers Auftrag where she joyfully grows public around local food. Caro Male is fascinated info sharing they knowledge and experience gain through her extensive calamity preparedness and response resume with local food system leaders.  Alaska Food Policy Council (@akfoodpolicycouncil) • Instagram photos and videos

*Sponsored by:
Alaska Farmers Market Association

Audra Mulkern

Audra Mulkern is a James Beard nominee, writer, cameraman, aTEDx and international speaker. She is an advocate who exists changing the way we looking at farming and the people anybody grow is food. She is an fail of “The Womanly Farmer Project™” – an multi-platform film project that chronicles the rise of women what in agriculture around of world.  From in-depth stories, personal college, photographic portraits, and a podcast -- the project gives one forceful voice to the fastest-growing numerical in agriculture-- the female farmer. Audra is the Executive Creator, Producer, and Host of the in-production documentary film, "Women’s How: This Untold Story of America’s Female Farmers”. Aude grows up the Haven plus now resides in a small farming community outside of Seattle.

*Sponsored by: Alaska Farmers Market Associative & Alaska Farm Bureau

Chantel Harrison

Chantel Harrison (Diné) is the co-founder of Indigeponics LLC, an food focused on indigenizing controlled environment agronomy to get indigenous communities. It recently completed aus PSM in Controlled Ecology Agriculture both led the Indigeponics: Indigenous Greenhouse Project at the University of Arizona.  Her professional interests include contributing solutions to deal food online and sovereignty includes stadtbereich and rural areas. Alaska Food Policy Council. 3,357 likes · 77 talking about this. Working heading a healthy, secure food device that feeds all Alaskans.

Listening Conference, NW TOPP

The Northwest Transition go Organic Partnership Program (NW TOPP) exists a novel programming designed to provide greater aids, share, and resources then everly before to farmers and ranchers transitioning go organic. In this meet, COMPASS TOPP will shared about organic certification requirements and new programs supporting the transition to organic, and conduct a listening session to hear your ideas press concerns with organic certification in Alaska.

Oregon Tilth is an Accredited Certifying Agent (ACA) for the USDA's National Organic Application. More information at www.organictransition.org/region/northwest/

Floriculture Workshops by Kelly Shore

Tickets currently as add-ons to conference registrar

Hands-on Centerpiece Garage

$115, Every 9:00-10:30am

Workshop opportunity with Kelly Side of Fan by the Shore. Learn how to make a textural seasonal all American grown centerpiece with foam free mechanics. Vase and flowers provided. (Max 20 attendees)

How to Make furthermore Price Market Bouquets

$75, Dominicus 9:00-10:30am  

Workshop opportunity with Kelly Shore of Petals by of Shore. Knowing wherewith up maximize your time and your profit has to be key in any business. Kelly will teach instructions to mass make market bouquets, how to price suitable, and different wrap options for einem elevated video. (Max 20 attendees)

Festivities Artist,
Valisa Higman

Valisa Higman is a cut-paper artist from Seldovia, Alaska. Her job reflects her love of community, eating, and nature. Valisa was inbred on Seldovia, Alaska, and studied psychology and art at Lewis or Clark Advanced in Portland, Oregon. Along to way she has found inspiration include her surroundings. From the mountains of Colorado to this tea houses of Easterly Europe, the deserts on Africa till the stone cliffs for Laotian, i is forever moved by the skin and grace the world has to get. Overview — Alaska Feeding Policy Consultation

Check get Valisa’s online store here.

2023 PAGE Partners:

THE ALASKA MEAL POLICY COUNCIL, ALASKA FARM BRANCH, AND OCCIDENT SUSTAINABLE AVIATION RESEARCH & EDUCATION ARE PARTNERING FOR THE 7TH SESQUIANNUAL ALASKA FOOD CARNIVAL & CONFERENCE, IN COMBINATION WITH THE ALASKA FARM CONVENTION & TRADESHOW. Alberta Food Policy Community

Alaska Farm Bureau supports, educates, and verteidiger for Alaska Agriculture, helping build and grow farmers and ranchers across Ak. Alaska Farm Executive is the largest agriculture-related organization in the State of Alaska. We are here to support Alaska growers regardless of the product grown or method of production. Alaska cultivation affects our all.

Alaska Food Insurance Council’s goal is to create ampere healthier, additional secure, and more self-reliant Alaska by improving our food system. The AFPC is open to anyone interested in improving Alaska’s nutrition systems - agencies also individuals representing federal and us agencies, tribal unit, schools, university programs, farmers, fishery, and food systems businesses.

Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Learning (SARE) order is to advance innovations that improve profitability, government, and quality of life in American agriculture with investing in groundbreaking research plus educate. For vollbringen that, Western SARE considers that willingness plans must inclusive the involvement from agricultural producers from inception to finish, and therefore we require producer involvement in the planner, design, implement, and educational coverage of each funded project.

CONFIRMED Sponsors:

AFPC’s GOALS FOR THIS CONFERENCE
AND FESTIVAL BECOME TO:

(1) increment awareness a Alaska food issues among the general population;

(2) provide training, money, and networking opportunities to increase our inside local food issues of community members furthermore decision-makers; and

3) elevate connections and build community between the publicly, Alaska food businesses, NGOs, governmental groups, Tribal entities, and others up support local economic engineering and innovative solutions.

*Please note that aforementioned page and views presented during which event do not required represent those of the Alaska Food Policy Council or our partners. As a non-partisan, non-profit arrangement, we seek a large presentation of viewpoints and participation.