The Open Food Network supports a vibrant network of food enterprises that are deeply embedded in their communities. During COVID, these food enterprises showed how important they are for community resilience. Three existing food hubs will share their wonderful and different approaches to creating and running their enterprises.

During this session we will dive into the littoral zone to cover algae 101. We will learn about wild algae forests, the evolutionary history of micro-algae, about the algae blooms caused by nitrogen/phosphorus loading of waterways, about algae as a fertiliser, algae carbon speculation and algae-industrialization for biofuels. We will share information on the global supply chains and seaweed workers, and the concerns about how these production methods will fare in a changing climate.  We…

Agriculture is one of the most dangerous occupations in the country, but workers in the US dairy, poultry, and livestock industries lack the basic protections that workers in most every other industry take for granted. A legal exemption prevents the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from monitoring and investigating farms with 10 or fewer workers, which means the vast majority of animal agriculture workers have no protection from dangerous conditions and no recourse…