Local Food Movement

Join leaders in your local food community for a foodraiser for the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle on Saturday, July 18th at the Colony Theater in Raleigh. Doors open at 10:30 A.M.; program starts at 10:50. Minimum donation: $10, cash only. Learn about Whole Food's new 5-Step Animal Welfare Program before the documentary on the industrialization of our food systems and stay afterwards for a Q&A session led by farmer Richard Holcomb of Coon Rock Farm. Related books and information in the lobby. For more details on this Cook for Good Foodraiser, visit cookforgood.com/foodinc

The Center for Integrating Research and Action at UNC Chapel Hill is sponsoring a conference this weekend on the challenge of making local food available all across our state. Deborah Webb, executive director of the Community Farm Alliance (CFA) based in Frankfort, Kentucky, is keynoting the conference, and she's agreed to join us this morning for a live-blogging session.

A lawyer by training, Deborah has worked with the Kentucky CFA since 1986. In 2000, CFA was instrumental in fashioning legislation to allocated $1.7 billion in tobacco settlement funds for the purpose of transitioning Kentucky’s tobacco dependent communities.

Deborah has a tight schedule today, but I'm expecting her to be on starting at 9 am for about an hour.