Managing Organics: Food
Waste as Opportunities & Challenges. Kay Stevens & Adam Siegert
Kay
Stevens will make the case will make a case for development of a model food
waste supply analysis that challenges historic assumptions about
‘efficient’ waste management &
proposes an innovative method for measuring & managing wastes based on
collaboration, responsible management & accurate data. Adam Sagert will make
the case for composting organics based on the economic & environmental
benefits describe the methodology & outcomes of the 2014 Pilot Project, the
HDR headquarters’ Zero Waste efforts & outline future goals and objectives.
About: Kay
Stevens, Project Coordinator with No More Empty Pots in Omaha.
kstevens@nomoreemptypots.org
About: Adam
Sagert, founder of WeCompost, a start-up in Omaha that collects food waste from
residential and commercial customers. wecompostomaha@gmail.com, http://wecompost.blogspot.com
Urban Community Gardening Inititiative. Big Garden
& City Sprouts.
About:
Cait Caughey is the Education & Programming
Coordinator at The Big Garden, a network of over 100 urban and rural gardens in
Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas. She has written a 10-week children & youth
curriculum focused on sustainable urban agriculture, and teaches at Big Garden
sites in the Omaha-metro May through October. Her main focus is equipping
gardeners with the skills they need to have healthy, bio-diverse gardens that
use organic growing practices. She is also a farmer and runs Botna Burrow in
Hancock, Iowa with her partner Tyler Magnuson & their kids.
Cultivation Story: The Role of Art in Agriculture.
Amanda Breitbach
Agriculture is more than an industry – it reflects a culture's value
system and way of life. Session participants will explore how art can tell a
meaningful story about agriculture using personal and communal narratives.
Together, they will view visual and audio art and discuss how art can be used
to communicate ideas about people and land.
About: Amanda is a graduate student in photography at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. She grew up on a family farm in eastern Montana, and her
research examines the relationships between people and land.
Farms in the Media: How to get the Word out. Summer
Miller
Summer
Miller will share her own experiences as a food and agriculture journalist and
author. She will also provide information on how to define your own farm story
and bring it to the media.
About: Summer is a freelance
food writer and author based just outside the urban fringes of Omaha, Nebraska.
Her writing has appeared in SAVEUR, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Edible Omaha,
Edible Feast, Nebraska Life, Omaha Magazine, and The Reader. Her first book,
New Prairie Kitchen: Stories and Seasonal Recipes from Chefs, Farmers and
Artisans of the Great Plains, was heralded by Oprah Winfrey's private chef as
"more than a cookbook -- it's a love letter to the heartland." It is
currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com and slated for nationwide
release in May.
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