To have your name added, contact Amber Polk at amber_polk@ncsu.edu.
Notes from the SUMMIT breakout sessions can now be found on the WIT pages linked below.
- F2F Core Team
- Game Plan
- Advisory Committee
- NC Food NETwork: a North Carolina Food System directory
- SUMMIT
- Working Issues
- Communications
- Community Gardens
- Direct Marketing
- Farm to School
- Local Government & Land Use
- New and Transitioning Farmer Support
- Processing & Food Systems Infrastructure
- Public Health & Food Access Disparities
- Retail & Institutional Markets
- Youth and Social Networking
- Formalizing the Initiative: Foundations & Baselines
- Regional Meetings
- How are we defining LOCAL?
- Regional Meetings Overview & Summary
- Triangle Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Mountain Region SUMMIT breakout session
- NorthEast Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Southeastern Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Triad Region SUMMIT breakout session notes
- Raleigh meeting
- Burgaw meeting
- Asheville
- Charlotte/Concord
- Winston-Salem
- Greenville
Golden Leaf Foundation
Z. Smith Reynolds
Ag Advancement Consortium
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- CEFS
- Contact Information Form
- NC Choices
- NC Food Network
- Wayne Food Initiative
SUMMIT Public Officials and Speakers
Notable speakers included Mary McNeil, USDA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (extending regards from Secretary Vilsack), NC Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler, and The Honorable Eva Clayton, former U.S. Representative.
Governor Bev Perdue and the Honorable Eva Clayton
at the Farm to Fork SUMMIT
Governor Bev Perdue delivered an address on Tuesday in which she said to those in attendance, “I’m on your team. Tell me what you need to grow this whole new industry.” She acknowledged her audience was likely uncomfortable with the term “industry,” but that local and sustainable foods were an increasing part of our agricultural economy. She went on to pledge her support not just politically but in the marketplace, saying, “We are a diverse agricultural community and I want to let everyone know it’s important to have consumers like me make it a priority to buy locally and buy sustainably.”