A Project of the Brooklyn Food Coalition
The Brooklyn Food Coalition is a grassroots partnership of individuals and groups who strive to give an effective voice to all those who live in or serve Brooklyn and wish to achieve a just and sustainable system for tasty, healthy, and affordable food.
Thank you for making the Brooklyn Food Conference a rousing success! Please see our new website for announcements about neighborhood meetings.
Did you enjoy lunch or dinner at the conference? Want to know more? Check out the menu page.
Trying to remember that fabulous non-profit or pickle-producer you saw at the exhibition halls? We have (almost!) all of them listed here.
We now have videos on our multimedia page! We will update it soon with video from the conference itself.
If you missed the Conference on May 2nd or if you simply want to refresh your memory, you can read many of the speeches here:
Bazelais Jean-Baptiste: Native Seeds for Haiti
Thomas Forster on 5 Reasons Why New York City is Ground Zero for Food System Change
DeVanie Jackson: We Can Make a Huge Impact
Anna Lappé on the Food System and the New Life Inside Her
Raj Patel on Our Dangerous Mouths
LaDonna Redmond’s Journey to Fresh Food and Activism
Débora Nunes Lino da Silva: Brazilian Peasants Risking their Lives for Change
Raj Patel: What Food Riots Really Are
Jennifer Steverson: African American Sustainability in Central Brooklyn
Ben Flanner & Annie Novak (New Farmers): Rooftop Farmers of Brooklyn
Severine von Tscharner Fleming (New Farmer): Ninja-ing a Path for Young Farmers
Sara Franklin (New Farmer): “Everything We Were Being Taught Was Backwards”
We welcome donations from individuals and funding from foundations and food companies. Please help support this FREE grassroots organization.
