Registration Open for Indiana Uplands Winter Food Conference

(BEDFORD) – Registration is open for the Indiana Uplands Winter Food Conference.

The conference is scheduled for Thursday, January 30, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the Stonegate Arts and Education Center in Bedford.

This conference is designed to bring practitioners together from different economic and community food sectors to learn and share interests in developing a regional food economy in South Central Indiana.

ACEnet will share its 30-year history of using food systems for homegrown economic development in rural, Appalachian Ohio.

Strategy sessions include:

  • Business and economic development in the food system
  • Shared-use kitchens and meat processing infrastructure for farm and food businesses
  • Indiana Grown for Schools
  • Value chain coordination and creating networks of connectivity
  • Community and nonprofit innovations for markets and food councils
  • Agritourism for the Indiana Uplands

Additional details and registration are available at https://sfss.indiana.edu/projects/indiana/inuplands/conference.html