Food as Medicine: Health as well as Food Safety
MLF: Bay Gourmet

Location: Ferry Building Port Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor of the Ferry Building

Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program

Cost: $8 Club/CAFF/Slow Food members, $15 non-members

Program Organizer: Cathy Curtis

Also know: In association with the Community Alliance on behalf of Family Farmers (CAFF)
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director, Center on behalf of Food Safety

Leslie Mikkelson, Managing Director, Prevention Institute

Judith Redmond, Farmer as well as Co-owner, Fully Belly Farm/Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Sarah Janssen, Natural Resources Defense Council/Physicians on behalf of Social Responsibility

Aliza Wasserman, Farm to Institution Director, CAFF - Moderator
Food safety, health as well as well-being are intricately linked to our local farms. Learn from top experts in the field how food, farmers as well as biodiversity play a role in creating a healthier society.
This program is part of Eat Local Month in the Bay Area. October is harvest time as well as Eat Local Month in the Bay Area. In one of the an estimated all abundant local food economies in the country, we are fortunate to be able to take one month as well as devote it to the sensations of the season. In celebration of this nationwide movement, The Commonwealth Club is hosting a series of timely programs on the social, economic as well as environmental benefits of supporting local food producers.
Eat Local Month is took to you by The Commonwealth Club Bay Gourmet Forum in association with Eat Local SF, Community Alliance on behalf of Family Farmers, as well as Buy Fresh Buy Local.