Farming Advocacy Group Red Tomato Presents Lecture and Discussion at Bard College

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— Red Tomato, a nonprofit leader in the movement to build sustainable, regional food systems, will host a forum on Tuesday, March 13 entitled “Scaling Up Local Food─the Reality Behind the Romance─Three Farmers Speak Out.”  Red Tomato has put together a panel of experts who will share their insights into the challenges mid-size farmers face when expanding their market opportunities beyond direct-to-consumer sales to mainstream vendors like supermarkets. The program takes place at 8:15 p.m. in the Bertelsmann Campus Center Multipurpose Room at Bard College. This event is free and open to the public, and no reservations are necessary. For more information contact Paul Marienthal at [email protected].

The forum will be moderated by 2002 Bard alum Laura Edwards-Orr (Freden), Red Tomato’s marketing communications manager. Participants include
John Lyman, Lyman Orchards Middlefield, Connecticut; Pete Ten Eyk, Indian Ladder Farms, Altamont, New York;
Tom Green, IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Institute of North America; and Red Tomato’s
Sue Futrell and Michael Rozyne.

Red Tomato’s mission is connecting farmers and consumers through marketing, trade, and education, and through a passionate belief that a family-farm, locally based, ecological, fair- trade food system is the way to a better tomato. Red Tomato is a nonprofit organization that coordinates marketing, sales, and logistics for a network of more than 40 family farms in the Northeast. For more information go to www.redtomato.org.

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March 1, 2012

This event was last updated on 03-02-2012

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