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NAN 1st Food Symposium
November 18 & 19
Location: NorWester Hotel

TOPICS and PRESENTATIONS include:

• Reclaiming Our History - Otisiabi Matriarchal Society
• What is food security
• Aboriginal Health: Learning in the Forest and cultivated gardens
• Building a nutritious and sustainable food system
• One x One Breakfast - First Nations Program Nutrition Programs
• Learning to Heal through Gardening - Global Garden Sing Consulting
• Panel Discussion:
  - Thunder Bay Cattlemen’s Association,
  - Boreal Edge Farm- Community Supported Agriculture
  - DeBruin Greenhouses
  - Vanderwees Farms- Egg Producers
  - Brule Creek Farms- Stone Milled Flour
• Roots to Shoots Youth - Jane Goodall Institute
• Cornell Farms - Food Boxes and Beef Production
• Shoal Lake #40 First Nation
• Manitoba First Nation Initiatives, Go Team MB Agriculture/Food & Rural Initiatives
• Northern Climate Solar Energy Greenhouse Project
• INAC Food Mail Program Review
• United Nations FAO - Earthbox Program
• Gifts from our Relations the Moose
• NAN community initiatives - Ginoogaming Garden Project, Aroland Blueberry Initiative, Hunter Subsidy Program