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The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming
Co-Founder & Director Diane Hatz, former founder/director of Sustainable Table, and Co-Founder and Glynwood President Judith LaBelle envision the Institute as a "creative action tank" that finds realistic solutions to critical problems in food and farming
The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming
Co-Founder & Director Diane Hatz, former founder/director of Sustainable Table, and Co-Founder and Glynwood President Judith LaBelle envision the Institute as a "creative action tank" that finds realistic solutions to critical problems in food and farming
Published 04-14-10
Submitted by Glynwood
In celebration of the upcoming 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Glynwood is pleased to announce the launch of its new division, The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming.
"Our vision is to shift the U.S. from an industrial-based system of agriculture to a regional, sustainable food supply," says Co-Founder & Director of The Glynwood Institute Diane Hatz. "One where healthy, nutritious food is accessible to all."
"To do that," says Co-Founder and Glynwood President Judith LaBelle, "we support leaders in sustainable food and farming and also develop projects that help communicate or raise awareness about today's food."
Innovation + Awareness = Change
At the heart of The Glynwood Institute is the Innovation Program, where selected leaders or emerging leaders within the sustainable food and farming movement are supported as they develop, launch or promote a project that addresses a critical need or issue within the field. In addition, The Institute helps develop marketing and communications strategies to educate, raise awareness about, or expand the Innovators' work.
The first Glynwood Institute Innovator is Anna Lappé, author of the just-released Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury, March 2010). Anna deftly explains the links between today's global food system and climate change, and offers readers ideas and inspiration for making sustainable food choices that can provide a catalyst for transforming the environment.
In addition to the Innovation Program, the Institute develops projects to raise awareness and educate both individuals and groups about sustainable food issues, with an emphasis on providing tools and resources to people and groups within the sustainable food and farming field. The first project of The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming is a national media center to improve the quality of communications and to give the media various tools and resources to make it easier to bring information about food and farming issues to the general public.
About Glynwood
Glynwood's mission is to save farming. Located on a farm in the lower Hudson Valley about an hour north of New York City, Glynwood's unique niche is to empower communities to support farming and conserve farmland, while also working our own land to demonstrate the economic viability of environmentally sustainable agriculture.
For more information about the Institute, please visit our website at www.GlynwoodInstitute.org or contact Geralyn Delaney Graham at geralyn@resourcescommunications.com and Diane Hatz dhatz@glynwood.org. You can also follow Glynwood and The Glynwood Institute on Facebook and Twitter @Glynwood.
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Glynwood is one of the nation’s leading sustainable agriculture and food organizations, with a mission to save farming by strengthening farm communities and regional food systems. Founded in 1995 and located in the Hudson Valley, Glynwood operates its own 225-acre farm, which models sustainable farming practices, conducts science-based soil and pasture restoration, and trains young farmers.
To further its mission, Glynwood conceives and implements community-based programs like Keep Farming®, and tackles infrastructure challenges such as the shortage of slaughterhouse facilities so that small to mid-size farmers can thrive and supply local and regional food systems. Through a national and international network of like-minded professionals and organizations, Glynwood gathers, develops, tests and shares innovative ideas and initiatives from around the world that may be effective in local communities in the Northeast and other regions of the country. In addition, the organization sponsors conferences, educational programs and public events to further a sustainable and robust food system. In 2010, Glynwood founded The Glynwood Institute as an incubator for ideas and action, a "creative action-tank" that develops and promotes realistic solutions to critical issues within the food system.
Glynwood's main programs:
- Keep Farming® is Glynwood's unique, step-by-step program for empowering communities to develop and implement plans to support local farming and conserve farmland.
- Glynwood Farm tests, innovates, and teaches techniques that demonstrate the economic viability of environmentally sustainable farming. With 225 acres in the Hudson Valley, it is a real-world model of farming practices that seek to optimize production while operating as an ecological unit.
- The Apple Project: Saving Orchards with Apples, is stimulating ‘apple entrepreneurship’ in the Hudson Valley by encouraging the diversification of apple varieties, promoting the production of high-value hard cider and spirits, giving growers new resources for knowledge and skill, and supporting a growing market for hard cider and apple spirits.
- Modular Harvest System™ is a revolutionary mobile system that is modeling the solution to the severe shortage of humane and high-quality meat processing facilities for pasture raised livestock - a solution that will benefit farmers, consumers, communities and the environment.
- The Harvest Awards honors farmers, organizations, and businesses across the United States for innovation and leadership in sustainable agriculture and regional food systems.
- The Glynwood Institute is a creative action-tank working to shift the U.S. to regional sustainable food and farming through its public programs like TEDxManhattan: Changing the Way We Eat.
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