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2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture March 1
Richard Levins, professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, will present the 2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture. The tentative title of his speech is “The Economics of Sustainable Agriculture: Beyond the Farm.” The lecture, which is open to the public, will be in the Sun Room of the Iowa State University Memorial Union. Details on the Leopold Center events calendar.
Fourth Marketing and Food Systems Initiative Workshop March 30
Mark your calendars for this workshop at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center in Ames. Featured will be the latest findings and research in the Center’s Marketing and Food Systems Initiative, as well as reporting from the five working groups in the Value Chain Partnership project led by the Leopold Center. Sessions will be scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is no charge to attend the workshop, but reservations must be received by March 23 to guarantee a lunch ticket. Registration will be available by February 1 on the Leopold Center web site, www.leopold.iastate.edu.
In November, a busload of ISU faculty, staff and students attended this event in Chicago, which featured workshop about urban agriculture, opportunities for farmers and businesses related to local foods, cooking demonstrations and retail success stories. The Iowa excursion was hosted by the Leopold Center and USDA's North Central Region of the Sustainable Agriculture and Research and Education (SARE) program.
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"It was like a block party at my hospital. One woman wanted to know how long we would be open because she needed to drop her husband off at the emergency room and would be right back."
— California doctor Preston Maring, commenting on a farmers market set up in the lobby at the hospital where he practices.
The idea has spread to 24 other hospitals in this health care system.
Listen to Maring's comments, and learn what has been happening to build the local food system in Story County, on the Leopold Center web site, www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/pastevents/maring/maring.htm