Gender and Food: Production and Consumption

Williams College Food and Agriculture Program & The Williams College
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
presents
Gender and Food: Production and Consumption
A Panel Discussion

Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 7 pm
Griffin Hall 3 | 844 Main Street | Williamstown

featuring

Karen Washington, Member of Garden of Happiness, La Familia Verde
Garden Coalition; Just Food City Farms Trainer; President of the NYC
Community Garden Coalition; co-recipient of the 2010 National Medal
for Museum and Library Service, awarded by Michelle Obama for her
work on the NY Botanical Garden's Bronx Green-Up program

Giovanna DiChiro, Ph.D., Research Associate in the Environmental
Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College, co-editor of the
volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social
Power and Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental
Justice (forthcoming); co- founder of the Pioneer Valley Community
Environmental Justice Coalition

Shannon Hayes, Ph.D. Author of Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming
Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, The Grassfed Gourmet, and The Farmer
and the Grill; Co-owner, Sap Bush Hollow Farm, Warnerville, NY

Elizabeth Smith, co-founder of Caretaker Farm in Williamstown, MA, ran the
NOFA-organic certified commercial vegetable farm for 16 years. Converted
to a CSA in 1990, Caretaker Farm provides vegetables, berries, herbs and
flowers to 240 households from June – January and provides vegetables to the
Berkshire Food Project.

Lisa MacDougall, farmer/owner of Mighty Food Farm in Pownal,
VT, graduated from the UMass Amherst with a degree in plant, soil and insect
sciences. In 2006 she established Mighty Food Farm, a CSA now in its fifth
growing season.

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Presentations will be followed by a community discussion

Free and open to the public