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Watch TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” LIVE online on January 21, 2012

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

January 17, 2012 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

Did you know that last year, over 14,000 computers tuned in from locations all over the globe to watch the live simulcast of the first TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat.” This Saturday, January 21, 2012, the second TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” will be held at the Times Center in New York City.  There, 20 leaders in the field will explore the issues, impacts and the innovations happening as we shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. And anyone around the world can share in this exciting day by watching the live webcast at www.livestream.com/tedx from 10:30am – 5:15pm eastern standard time or by attending one of the local viewing parties happening across the country.  It’s easy, it’s free, and it will be both informative and inspiring.

If you’d like to be among like-minded individuals to tune into the talks, you may want to stop in at one of the local Viewing Parties being held from Portland, Oregon to Houston, Texas and even Marseille, France.  To find a list of Viewing Parties and to connect with them, visit the Viewing Party map on the TEDxManhattan website.  Click on one of the map pins in your area to get detailed information on the where and when.  All of the viewing parties are free, and many will feature local speakers who will talk about what’s happening in your community.

This is also wonderful opportunity for people around the world to connect online with each other and the sustainable food movement via these social media tools:

We hope you watch with us and join in the conversation. To learn more about the day and the speakers, visit www.tedxmanhattan.org


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Bring TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” 2012 to your Hometown via a Viewing Party

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

December 21, 2011 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

In February of this year, over 14,000 computers tuned in from locations all over the globe to watch the live simulcast of the first TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat.” On Saturday, January 21, 2012, the second TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” – an independently organized event, licensed by TED – will be held at the Times Center in New York City. This one-day event whose lead sponsor is the Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, will explore the issues, the impacts and innovations happening as we shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming and help to create connections and unite different areas of the food movement.

And while not everyone may be able to attend the local event, communities around the world can share in this inspiring day by hosting a viewing party of the live webcast in their hometowns.

WHERE can you host a viewing party?

In your home, a school, a library or other non-profit location, as well as restaurants (certain restrictions apply). And so that as many people as possible participate in TEDxManhattan, the TEDx team has made it simple to host your own viewing party, complete with a video and links to a Viewing Party Tool Kit, which outlines rules and ideas.

There’s a world-class line-up of speakers that are sure to inspire you and guests, including:
• Fred Kirschenmann, farmer, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, and President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in NY
• Mitchell Davis, vice president, the James Beard Foundation, cookbook author and food journalist
• Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch
• Gary Oppenheimer, founder/executive director of AmpleHarvest.org, CNN Hero, Master Gardener, Huffington Post 2011 Game Changer, winner of the 2011 Glynwood Wave of the Future Harvest Award
• Michelle Hughes, Director of GrowNYC’s New Farmer Development Project

WHY host a Viewing Party?

Local viewing parties are opportunities for people around the world to connect with each other and the sustainable food movement. While events revolve around the speakers in NYC, organizers are encouraged to invite local speakers and plan activities to engage their participants during breaks. TEDxManhattan Viewing Party Coordinator Jane Orgel reports that there are already over three dozen viewing parties set up from California to Vermont, and in global communities in France and Canada.

To learn more about TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat,” to read about the complete line-up of speakers  and to learn more about host a viewing party, visit www.tedxmanhattan.org.  You can also follow on facebook and twitter:  www.facebook.com/tedxmanhattan and @tedxmanhattan.

What is  TEDx and TED?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like* experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. *TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. For more information about TED and TEDx, please visit www.ted.com.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.


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TEDxManhattan Challenge Finalists

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

November 29, 2011 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” planning is well underway, with 14 speakers confirmed, the venue in place and food details underway. We’ve also chosen our five finalists for the TEDxManhattan Challenge – we challenged people last year to work in their community anywhere in the United States on a project related to sustainable food and farming.

We received around 40 applications from all over the country and have narrowed it down to the final five. The winner will get to speak live from stage at the 2012 TEDxManhattan event. If you would like to vote for your favorite, please email your choice by December 5th to TEDxManhattanChallenge@gmail.com.

We’re also encouraging everyone to set up a local viewing party to watch the event live – if you’d like to watch, please tune in to our broadcast on January 21st at www.livestream.com/tedx. Better yet, set up a viewing party in your neighborhood and invite friends over to watch the talks with you. You can find out more information about viewing parties and setting one up at http://tedxmanhattan.org/viewing-parties/.

The five TEDxManhattan Challenge finalists are:

1. Natasha Bowens, The Color of Food – http://thecolorofood.org/home.html She’s spent the past year creating a space for farmers and food activists of color to connect, work together and share stories, history and traditional knowledge. The Color of Food is a space to raise the voices of communities of color in the movement for food justice.

2. Rick Nahmias, Food Forward – http://foodforward.org/ In 2.5 years they have become Southern California’s largest backyard harvesting for the hungry NPO. Food Forward organizes corps of between 3 and 300 volunteers to harvest excess food from private homes and public spaces, donating 100% to the hungry.

3. Amie Hamlin, New York Coalition for Healthy School Food – http://www.healthyschoolfood.org/ New York Coalition for Healthy School Food has been working with the New York City Office of SchoolFood (they spell it as one word) in a formal partnership for the last few years to develop and introduce plant-based entrees to serve as the protein component in school lunches. They are doing this in 18 schools and have a waiting list of 48 schools.

4. Howard Hinterthuer, Veteran’s Food Production Project
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/news/view_news.php?articleid=9474 Their organic therapy project for veterans, now in its fourth year, is transitioning into a food production program designed to supplement and eventually replace food that they currently purchase through vendors.

5. Billy Mawhiney, Fresh Mitchell – http://freshmitchell.info/ Fresh Mitchell is a group aimed at changing the way rural Mitchell, South Dakota, eats. They began marketing their Farmers Market, got accepted for SNAP and credit cards, and began a CSA through a 5th generation farm about 30 miles away (called the Goosemobile). They recently hosted their first Fall Harvest Celebration, a night of Old Fashioned fireside stories from the South Dakota food movement to raise funds for an edible classroom, demo area for the market and CSA support.

Please email your favorite finalist by December 5th to TEDxManhattanChallenge@gmail.com.


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TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat”: How You Can Join the Conversation on February 12

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

February 4, 2011 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

If you are one of the many Americans who want to help change the way we eat in this country, you will want to tune in to TEDxManhattan on Saturday, February 12.  Listen to an amazing array of speakers, all big thinkers in their field, each of whom give short, thoughtful talks about how we can shift our industrial food system to one that provides fresh, locally produced food for everyone, all in the TED spirit of  ’ideas worth spreading’.

So you don’t live in Manhattan?  Well, the good news is you can still be a part of this inspiring day!  TEDxManhattan has helped over 100 communities in the US and Europe set up local viewing parties, where you can get together with like-minded people in your community to watch the event live; many cities will have local farmers, officials and food advocates there to speak about what’s happening in your own region, and most will serve locally grown foods at their party.  To attend a local viewing party in your area, visit http://tedxmanhattan.org/viewing-parties/ for information.

Can’t make a Viewing Party but want to be a part of TEDxManhattan?  You can take part from the comfort of your own home.  Just turn on your computer, go to www.livestream.com/tedx between 10:30am – 6:30pm eastern, and tune in.

TEDxManhattan will feature inspiring thought leaders at the cutting edge of their industry, each of whom will talk about the importance of finding new ways to redefine the way we grow and eat food from their perspective and field of expertise.  To learn about the speakers, their work and to view a schedule of when they will be giving their talks, go to www.tedxmanhattan.org/event.

We hope you will join The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming for this exciting day of  learning, listening and sharing.


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Bring TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” to Your Hometown

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

January 1, 2011 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” is being held in New York City on Saturday, February 12, 2011. Sponsored by The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, this one-day TEDx event will explore the food system — from what happened, to where we are, to what we are doing to shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. The goal of “Changing the Way We Eat” is to create new connections and collaborations across disciplines, to unite different areas of the food movement and to introduce the audience to the exciting and innovative work being done in the field of sustainable food systems.

But if you don’t live in New York or you missed out on the opportunity to apply for a ticket, there is still a way to share in this exciting day: you can Host a Viewing Party of the live webcast!

But first, let’s talk about the world-class line-up of speakers that Diane Hatz, Glynwood Institute co-founder/director and organizer of TEDxManhattan, has arranged. To read more about these leaders in the sustainable food movement, go to the website, www.tedxmanhattan.org.

• USDA Coordinator of “Know Your Farmer Know Your Food” Lucas Knowles
• Chef/owner/sustainable food advocate Michel Nischan
• Dr. Tenley Albright, Director of MIT Collaborative Initiatives and Faculty Member Harvard Medical School
• Professor Frederick Kaufman from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
• Filmmaker and star of the Peabody Award-winning film King Corn, Curt Ellis
• Josh Viertel, President of Slow Food USA
• Glynwood Harvest Award Winner & the first US farmer awarded a MacArthur Genius Award, Cheryl Rogowski
• President of the Environmental Working Group, Kenneth Cook
• President of the Angiogenesis Foundation Dr. William Li
• Farmer and President of the Dairy Education Alliance Karen Hudson
• Windowfarms creator and artist, Britta Riley
• TED house band ETHEL is TEDxManhattan’s house band/entertainment curator

So, where can you host a viewing party? In your home, a school, a library or another non-profit location [i.e., restaurants and other retail locations are not eligible venues]. And in an effort to let as many people as possible participate in TEDxManhattan, the TEDx team has made it simple to host your own viewing party, complete with links to a Viewing Party Tool Kit, which outlines rules and ideas. To find out how to sign up to host an event, visit the tedxmanhattan.org site and click on the viewing party tab to learn the details.

Local viewing parties are opportunities for people around the world to connect with each other and the sustainable food movement. While events revolve around the speakers in NYC, organizers are encouraged to invite local speakers and plan activities to engage their participants during breaks. TEDxManhattan Viewing Party Coordinator Carrie Blackburn reports that there are already over 20 viewing parties set up across the country, including ones in NV, KY, NH, KY, OK, AZ, CA and even Poland!

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like* experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for
the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

*TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives.
The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Bono, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

For more information about TED and TEDx, please visit www.ted.com.


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The New Pioneers of Local Food: Meet the 2010 Harvest Award Winners

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October 11, 2010 by Geralyn Delaney Graham

Long before “sustainable” and “local food systems” became everyday words in the American lexicon, Glynwood realized that there was a groundswell of farmers, individuals, organizations and businesses working to support their regional food system and provide access to fresh and healthy food to their community. Their work was inspiring and innovative in a “get your hands in the dirt and get the job done” kind of way, with most of them working quietly and tirelessly in their local communities to achieve some pretty spectacular results. In 2003, in order to highlight their innovative work and spirit, Glynwood created the Harvest Awards, not only to recognize these leaders, but also to share their work with like-minded individuals around the country.

What sets this year’s winners apart is that they have each developed an innovative model for sustainability that can be replicated in communities across the country – a key ingredient in sowing the seeds for positive change.

This year, the winners will receive their awards at a presentation at Glynwood on Sunday, October 17. On Monday, October 18, the Harvest Award winners will participate in a panel discussion called “The New Pioneers of Local Food: Creating Models that Support Regional Food Systems,” moderated by Glynwood President Judith LaBelle, where they will share their experiences and success.

This event is open to the public and will take place at the 92YTRIBECA; reservations can be made by emailing harvestawards@glynwood.org. We hope you can join us to hear about their exciting achievements.

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Comparing Pasture-Raised Turkey Operations: A Report from the 2010 NOFA Conference

Beyond the Valley, Fresh from Our Farm

August 30, 2010 by Cale Nicholson

I took advantage of several livestock workshops at the 2010 NOFA Conference in Amherst, MA the weekend of August 13-15th. Some sessions presented good opportunities to compare and contrast other regional farmers’ methods of stewardship with those of ours here at Glynwood. Other presentations I came to whole cloth in the hopes of gaining new ideas and resources that we could then apply to our livestock operation.

One of the first sessions of the weekend that piqued my interest dealt with organic turkey production and was presented by Lynda Simkins, director of the Natick Community Organic Farm in Natick, MA. At this time we have about 60 heritage and hybrid pastured turkeys fattening up for the holidays here at Glynwood and I was happy to discover that our methods of raising these birds are very similar to those of Mrs. Simkins’ poultry operation.

Foraging turkeys at Glynwood. Photo by Frankie Kimm.

Mrs. Simkins purchases a season’s worth of birds from Bob’s Turkey Farm in Lancaster, MA by January or February and the day old chicks arrive on her farm around the first of June. This is the ideal time to begin raising turkeys for harvest just before Thanksgiving because they typically reach their target weight of 15-20 lbs at around 6 months old. If chicks arrive any later, they may not reach their ideal weight by the fall. In an even worse case scenario, if they arrive earlier they likely will be overweight at the time of harvest resulting in a large bird that is much more expensive to the customer and difficult to cook properly.

Before the chicks arrive on the farm a makeshift brooder room needs to be prepared, ideally in a barn or other waterproof structure that’s not too drafty. It’s a good idea to roughly round out the corners of the brooder with plywood so that the chicks don’t pile onto and smother one another. The best bedding to use for turkey chicks is medium wood shavings because it’s soft enough to allow for proper foot development and is also substantial enough to act as a source of insulation as the first of June can still be chilly for young turkeys.

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The Food and Climate Connection

Beyond the Valley, Glynwood Institute

July 23, 2010 by Sara Grady

Prior to joining Glynwood’s staff this year, I directed and co-produced a video with WhyHunger titled “The Food and Climate Connection: From Heating the Planet to Healing It.” Featuring interviews with farmers, community leaders, and sustainability advocates, the video highlights how the industrial food system is among the greatest contributors to global warming and how sustainable farming practices can pose a powerful solution to the crisis.

“We cannot address climate change without addressing the food system” says Christina Schiavoni, Director of the Global Movements Program at WhyHunger.

Anna Lappé, author of Diet for a Hot Planet and also one of the Glynwood Institute’s first Innovators, is featured in the film. “Industrial crop and livestock production is wreaking havoc on our planet and our health,” says Anna. “But the good news is sustainable farming methods can help cool the planet, foster food system resiliency, and promote biodiversity and healthy eating—all at the same time.”

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Jamie Oliver and TED

Beyond the Valley, Diane’s Desk

May 14, 2010 by Diane Hatz

This is a piece I wrote for the Environmental Media Association’s newsletter.

JAMIE OLIVER AND TED

This year’s TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference was deliciously full of sustainable food talk, from chef/Blue Hill restaurant owner Dan Barber’s love affair with a fish to cancer researcher William Li’s talk about which local, sustainable foods will help prevent cancer. But the highlight of the event, which ran February 9 – 13 in Long Beach and Palm Springs, was Jamie Oliver’s TED prize speech and wish.

Every year, the TED prize is awarded to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and “One Wish to Change the World”. This year, Oliver’s wish is “for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”

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Diet for a Hot Planet, by Anna Lappé

Beyond the Valley, What We’re Reading & Eating

May 11, 2010 by Diane Hatz

If you haven’t yet read Anna Lappe’s new book Diet for a Hot Planet, it’s well worth a visit to your local bookstore to get a copy.

Following is a short piece Anna has written about the book:

Diet for a Hot Planet
by Anna Lappé
foreword by Bill McKibben
Bloomsbury/Spring 2010

The era of climate-change deniers may (almost) be behind us, but a new battle has just begun. As we grapple with global warming, we will face increasing controversies over which industries are most responsible for the greenhouse gases of most concern and which actions and policies will most help us mitigate the crisis.

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