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We strive to offer and support opportunities for learning that help us to support our food system and build better communities.
Our learning circles are designed to be a participatory structure for group reflection, dialogue, and planning based on selected scholarship and emergent topics.
Our Center is home to a number of state and regional programs supporting food systems-based community development at the nexus of food, agriculure, and society.
The Center supports a number of projects related to and in support of regional food systems and community transformation.
Center fellows bring the aims of the Center to their communities as leaders, educators, and advocates for transformation in our food and farming systems.
Upcoming Events
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CFSCT May Fellows Series: Revisiting UVA’s BIPOC Procurement Initiative: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Wholesale Acquisition , articleJoin us for the day in learning how the University of Virginia and UVA's Sustainable Food Collaborative (UVA SFC) have increased the procurement of goods for local BIPOC farmers. We will hear from Michael Carter Jr, Allie Berry, and Tom McDougall – and how UVA's BIPOC Procurement Program supports the wholesale acquisition of produce from minority farmers for UVA dining facilities, connects chefs directly with these producers, and educates culinary staff about purchasing and incorporating healthy, local produce into their menus.
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Agriculture of the Middle Webinar , articleThis webinar will feature the Extension and applied research insights of Drs. Becca Jablonski of Cornell University, Mary Hendrickson of the University of Missouri, Patrick Bauer of the University of Rhode Island, Michelle Miller of the University of Wisconsin, and host Eric Bendfeldt of Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension. In addition to the brief presentations and comments on the importance, values, and vitality of mid-size farms on a state and national level, there will be facilitated small group discussions on Extension educational needs and applied research opportunities that can strengthen this important sector of the agricultural community.