Join us for this year’s It Takes a Region… the conference for everyone doing food system change work! Together we’ll learn about and build on exciting efforts underway in our region in production, distribution logistics, research, messaging, food access and nutrition, policy advocacy and more. Whatever your part of the Northeast food system, this conference is for you!

Join us for this year’s It Takes a Region… the conference for everyone doing food system change work! Together we’ll learn about and build on exciting efforts underway in our region in production, distribution logistics, research, messaging, food access and nutrition, policy advocacy and more. Whatever your part of the Northeast food system, this conference is for you!

This year we are co-hosting the session Northeast Fisheries: Scale Up of Sell Out?

Focus: Policies that turned farms into food production machines with grave ecological, social, health and economic consequences are being mirrored on the marine side. Fishing operations are faced with the same choices confronted by farmers a few decades ago: sell out or scale up. Learn what our fishing communities are doing to stop consolidation and create alternatives.

Leaders: Brett Tolley, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance; Doug Maxfield, fisherman, Gloucester, MA; Amanda Beal, Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine