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SUMMARY:Building Better Bridges - Farm & Food Care Annual Meeting & Co
 nference
DESCRIPTION:Join us for “Building Better Bridges” the inaugural me
 eting of Farm & Food Care - with a focus on sustainable food in Canada
  including perspectives from the farm through to retail and the food s
 ervice sector.\nPresentations\nDavid Smith, VP of Sustainability for S
 obeys, Inc., will speak on the topic of “The shift from ‘trust us 
 to show us’ and other changing challenges of sustainable food – fr
 om the farm to the grocery store”. Smith leads Sobeys’ sustainabil
 ity direction covering direct operations (retail stores, fleets and wa
 rehouses) and product sourcing including sustainable seafood, agricult
 ure, packaging, social compliance and animal welfare.\nTim Faveri, Dir
 ector of Sustainability and Responsibility for Tim Hortons Inc., will 
 focus on the issue of “What does sustainable food look like? Committ
 ing to both today and a better tomorrow – the Tim Hortons approach.�
 �� Faveri leads the company’s sustainability and responsibility init
 iatives and activities.\nKeynote Presentation\nThe keynote presentatio
 n, “Building bridges starts on the farm” will be given by the husb
 and and wife team of Troy and Stacy Hadrick from South Dakota.\nIn 200
 6, this couple decided that they needed to become more proactive in te
 lling the story of farming on their fifth generation beef ranch. Their
  cause began as a short speech at a farm conference and has evolved to
  them taking on activist organizations like the Humane Society of the 
 United States and author Michael Pollan. The Hadricks are now internat
 ionally acclaimed speakers who challenge their audiences to look for e
 veryday opportunities to promote and explain food and farming to non f
 armers. They are also the founders of Advocates for Agriculture (www.a
 dvocatesforag.com)\nOther Features\nFarm & Food Care Ontario will be f
 ormally launched at its inaugural annual meeting on April 17, 2012 at 
 the St. George’s Banquet Hall in Waterloo. This new organization sta
 rted with the amalgamation of the Ontario Farm Animal Council and its 
 sister group AGCare.  Farm & Food Care is the first coalition of its 
 type in Canada, bringing together thousands of farmers and related bus
 inesses to build public trust and confidence with credible information
  on food and farming. \nRegistration\nThe early bird registration rat
 e is $75 before March 27th. \nThe cost will rise to $100 per person a
 fter March 27th.\nRegistration can be done online at http://www.farmfo
 odcare.org/index.php/news/agm-2012.\n\nFor more information visit http
 s://ontag.farms.com/events/building-better-bridges-farm-food-care-annu
 al-meeting-conference
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20120417T083000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20120417T170000
CATEGORIES:annual, meeting, conference
LOCATION:St. George's Banquet Hall
WEBSITE:http://www.farmfoodcare.org
URL:http://www.farmfoodcare.org
CONTACT:(519) 837-1326
ORGANIZER:Farm & Food Care Ontario
ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather 
 Hargrave":https://ontag.farms.com/profile/HeatherHargrave
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