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WEBINAR- Food Hubs and Alternative Markets. KSU
April 23, 2020 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Gaining Ground Webinar Series
Gaining Ground is a free webinar series geared toward agriculture educators. The goal of Gaining Ground is to equip agriculture educators with knowledge from national experts that support Urban Food Systems enterprises in the region. Participants will learn technical and systems-level information for successful Urban Food Systems practices through the series.
About the Series
Each webinar is delivered by experts from the urban core such as urban farmers, nonprofit educators, food policy advocates and government workers. Each webinar is one hour in length.
Gaining Ground is presented by the Urban Food Systems program at K-State Olathe.
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Upcoming Webinars
Food Hubs and Alternative Markets
The following topics will be covered:
- What is a food hub
- Pros/Cons and tradeoffs of food hubs
- Value of joining a food hub
- Resources
Anthony Flaccavento
Economic Development Consultant and
Organic Farmer
Author of “Building a Healthy Economy from the Ground Up: Harnessing Real World Experience for Transformative Change,” Anthony Flaccavento is an economic development consultant and organic farmer from Abingdon, Virginia, in the heart of Appalachia.
His consulting business, SCALE Inc., works with communities around the world to help build more locally-rooted, sustainable economies and healthier food systems.
Flaccavento is the founder of Appalachian Sustainable Development and a number of other “social enterprises” in affordable housing, food and farming and forest and wood products. He writes and speaks regularly about the economy, sustainability, rural development and politics. His YouTube channel, “Take Five with Tony”, covers many of these same topics in down-to-earth, five minute segments.
Flaccavento has a bachelor’s degree in agriculture and environmental science and a master’s degree in economics and rural development. He is married to Laurel Flaccavento, a retired public school teacher, and has three terrific grown kids.