Women in Sustainable Agriculture

A Series of Talks and Conversations, Fall 2006, U.C. Berkeley please scroll down for list of speakers and dates. Careful! its not always on a Thursday!

Podcasts of speakers

As it fell to our mothers, so it falls to us young women today, to perpetuate life by changing the world. Whether glamorously or invisibly, the women you will encounter pour their life’s energy into transforming our world into a more human and hospitable place – all while engaging themselves in it, in an environment where progressive, supportive institutions are difficult to find. Speakers in our series are women who have chosen to deploy their intelligence, their passion and stubborn hopefulness on behalf of Sustainable Agriculture – a vital part of our social anatomy. Whatever your chosen field, these food and farming heroes-journalists, scientists, activists, authors, counselors, farmers can help us plot a courageous trajectory in our own professional lives.

College of Environmental Design, Wurster Hall room 106 6.45pm-8.45pm

September 21

  • Barbara Deutsch
  • Advocate and practitioner of Gardens for butterflies
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  • Kendra Johnson
  • California FarmLink

September 28

  • Dee Harley
  • Harley Goat Farms
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  • Ali and Brooke Budner (twin sisters
  • OAEC, Full Belly Farm, South Side Community Land Trust

October 4

  • Dr. Clara Nicholls
  • AgroEcology, Slow Food
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  • Raquel Moreno-Penaranda
  • AgroEcology vs. Biotechnology

October 5

  • Claire Cummings
  • Kellogg Institute
  • Columbia Foundation
  • Worldwatch Institute
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  • Katy Mamen
  • Ag Innovation

October 19

  • Anna Lappé
  • Food Activist author of GRUB, and Hope’s Edge
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  • Shrereen D’souza
  • Sustaining Ourselves Locally (SOL)

October 25

  • Willow Rosenthal, City Slicker Farms
  • + *Kimberlee Chambers, Ethnoecology, Sonoma State *and
  • Dr. Christy Getz
  • Cooperative Extension Specialist

October 26

  • Kat Harrison
  • Ethnobotanist
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  • Laura Smailes
  • Clinical Herbalist

November 9

  • Temra Costa
  • Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Oakland
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  • Dr. Ann Thrupp
  • Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards

November 15

  • Heather Coburn, Food Not Lawns and Rebecca Thisthlethwaite
  • ALBA-Land based training for immigrant farmers

November 30

  • Sibella Krauss
  • SAGE, AgParks on the Urban Edge
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  • Anya Fernald
  • Slow Food Presidia

December 8

  • Dr. Heather Willams
  • Food Politics in Mexico, Pomona College Student Organic Farm
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  • Christine Ahn
  • Food Justice, Korea

Please join us for one or all or these lively sessions. Each set of talks will be followed by a convivial reception, discussion and opportunity for conversation between attendees.

Series presented by the Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology (SAFE) and Greenhorn Agrarians.

Funding for the series comes from the KNIGHT program in Science and Environmental Journalism and the College of Natural Resources

Further support has been provided by Blue House Farm which grew the produce served at our receptions. www.bluehousefarm.org for more information on this young farming enterprise located in Pescadero, CA.

All sessions recorded and archived for podcast and radio program, please email for details.

Artwork by Rosy Keyser Winterer.