Network Day 2011

Food Day
celebrating 40 years of
Friends of the Earth

Saturday 8th October 2011

Bethesda Church
Great Norwood Street, Cheltenham
GL50 2AP – Map

11am to 4pm

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the national organisation, Gloucestershire Friends of the Earth presents Food Day as its Network Day for 2011.

Speakers include Clare Oxborrow, FoE's senior campaigner on food in London, and Pete Riley of GM Freeze.

Information stalls will include Vision 21's GrowVision exhibition, the Gloucestershire Orchard Group and DEMETER certification label.

Bring and Share lunch.

Programme for the Day

11am A history of FoE food campaigning and where to from here
Clare Oxborrow, senior Food Campaigner, FoE
11.45am Recent GM developments and sustainable alternatives
Pete Riley, GM Freeze
12.30pm Transition Town Cheltenham Food Group: Food Tasting
leading into ...
  Bring and Share Lunch
2pm Can permaculture feed Britain?
Mike Bush
2.30pm Biodynamic Agriculture & the Demeter Standard
Bernard Jarman

Cost: £3.50 per person

Clare Oxborrow is Friends of the Earth's Food Campaigner, working on the organisation's new livestock and biodiversity campaign and leading its GM campaign. She has been in her current role for five years. She is also on the management board of GM Freeze. Clare holds an MSc in Conservation from UCL and a BSc in Ecology and Conservation.

Clare says that she lives for food. It's what she gets up for in the morning. It's what she talks about most of the day.

"Food has always been my passion. I really care about the way it's produced, the right we all have to eat fresh, healthy food - and the right of all farmers to make a decent living out of it."

Profile

Pete Riley has been described as the biggest green thorn in the side of the GM industry, first at Friends of the Earth and now as chair of GM Freeze. He was one of those who defied heavy odds to beat off a determined attempt, headed by Tony Blair, to introduce GM crops.

GM Freeze

Transition Towns are springing up all over the world, aiming to build local resilience and community cooperation as a practical and creative community response to climate change.

Transition Town Cheltenham's Food Group believes that if we are to feed ourselves well in the long term, we need small, mixed, labour-intensive farms that are basically organic.

Website

Cost: £3.50 per person.

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