[Facnet-l] Turlock Community Gardens - free Conference on Urban Agriculture in Central Valley

[Julia Sankey]

Hi all:

Turlock Community Gardens and CSUS will be co-hosting a conference, Rooting for Change: A Conference on Urban Agriculture in the Central Valley, Saturday March 5, 2022.

This will be a free, one day conference on urban agriculture. Conference topics will include: community and school gardens, food waste and composting, organic gardening, urban green space, biodiversity, and urban agriculture as part of the solution to the climate crisis. All welcome! Registration is required (below). Conference will be limited to 100 people.

Morning: Lectures, small discussion groups, and poster sessions.
Afternoon: Field trips to local community and school gardens.
Hosted by: Turlock Community Gardens and California State University Stanislaus
Location: Turlock, California. Likely outdoors; venue to be announced soon.

https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/conference

We would love to have you attend, participate, and even help out by leading tours, giving presentations, or many other activities. If you have any questions or suggestions or want to help out, please email co-host, Alex Tagge: atagge at csustan.edu<mailto:atagge at csustan.edu>.

Lastly, we would really like some local schools with school gardens to participate in the conference. If you have any names/contacts, please email Alex. Thanks!

Thanks!
Julia

Turlock Community Gardens:
https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/

https://www.facebook.com/TurlockCommunityGardens

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Julia T. Sankey, Ph.D.
Professor, Paleobiology/Geology
Sustainability Faculty Fellow, Council for Sustainable Futures
California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
209-667-3090; JSankey at csustan.edu<mailto:JSankey at csustan.edu>
https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey





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