Local and Organic in a Global Food Economy:
What is Our Role--As Farmers, Consumers and Citizens?

The global food system and its alternatives were addressed at MOFGA's Spring Growth Conference. Speakers included Fred Kirschenmann, long-time organic farmer from North Dakota and former member of the National Organic Standards Board, who now chairs the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University; Molly Anderson, U.S. Regional Director at Oxfam America and former Director of the Agriculture, Food, and Environment Program at Tufts University; Lawrence Woodward, who directs the Elm Farm Research Centre in Berkshire, U.K.; Jan Schrock and Amy Burchstead of Heifer Project International; and a panel of Maine people who are involved in the food system.

The first two talks are covered in this issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener. Woodward's talk is posted at www.mofga.org; and his and the remaining talks will be covered in the Sept.-Nov. issue of this paper.

• Lawrence Woodward -- Soil, Food Quality, and Health
• Fred Kirschenmann -- No More Cheap Oil
• Molly Anderson -- Changing Values and Attitudes