Breakthrough Leaders Certificate Program for Sustainable Food Systems

Residential Schedule

June 2 - June 13: Online Learning

June 15 – June 20: Residential Schedule (below)

Sunday, June 15

11:00am-1:00pm Arrival & Check-In (Waterman Building, outside room 427)

1:00pm-2:00pm Welcome& Setting Our Agenda (Cynthia Belliveau) (Waterman 427)

2:00pm-4:30pmThe Science of S.E.E.D. for Solutions (Taylor Ricketts) (Waterman 427)

4:30pm-5:00pmGroup reflection and conversation

5:00pm-7:00pm Reception & Dinner (Waterman Manor)

Monday, June 16

8:00am-9:00amBreakfast in the IntervaleBarn (Travis Marcotte Welcome)

9:00am-10:30am Intervale Tour: Building Community Food Systems (Travis Marcotte)

10:30am-11:30amIntervale Food Hub: Creating alternative market enterprises (Sona Desai)

11:30am-12:00pmGroup Dialogue & Reflection

12:00pm-1:00pmLunch(Intervale Barn)

1:00pm-4:00pmLearning Directly from Today’s Leaders: Perspectives on Leadership in Various Food Systems Contexts (Vern Grubinger facilitates)

Presenters/Mentors: (30 min each + 30 min group discussion)

Katherine Sims, Green Mountain Farm-to-School

Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, Greenhorns

Tom Stearns, High Mowing Seeds

4:00pm-4:30pmGroup Dialogue & Reflection: commonalities/differences in leadership styles, challenges

5:30pm-7:30pm Dinner at Bread & Butter Farm(Corie Pierce)

Tuesday, June 17

8:00am-1:00pm Morning Culinary Corridor Food Systems Tour

Site visits to local Burlington businesses.

11:30am-12:30pmLunch (location tbd)

1:00pm-1:30pmWelcoming remarks on establishing a shared understanding of the

system we’re trying to change and aligning Academic, Research, Governmental, Nonprofit and Private Sectors for Collectively addressing the Social, Economic, Environment, and Diet & Health aspects of food systems.

Video Presentation of “The Big Questions” featuring Luminaries from

around the World

1:30pm-3:00pmPaper Session I

3:00pm-3:15pmBreak

3:15pm-4:45pmKeynote I – Food Sovereignty Global Perspective. What are the research & policyinitiatives one needs?

5:00pm-7:00pmDinner downtown (participants from Summit to make their own arrangements via networking)

Wednesday, June 18

7:30am-8:30amRegistration and breakfast(Davis Center)

8:30am-9:15amKeynote II – How much additional food capacity do we really need and where? How much land basedo we need to feed the world’s population if we produced our foodecologically? What assumptions or adjustments dowe need to make about diet and nutrition to do so? What are the research & policyinitiatives one needs?

9:15am-9:30amBreak

9:30am-11:00amPaper Session II

11:00am-11:15pmBreak

11:15am-12:00pmKeynote III – Can you be ecologically, economically, hydrologicaly, and energetically soundand intensive? What are the research & policyinitiatives one needs?

12:00pm-1:30pmLunch

1:30pm-3:00pm Paper Session III

3:00pm-3:15pmBreak

3:15pm–4:45pmSpecial Panel Session Featuring the Keynote Speakers

5:00pm-6:00pmReception: Tasting with Vermont producers for all Summit participants, as well attendees of the ASFA/AFHVS Annual Meeting

6:00pm-8:00pmDinner on your own

Thursday, June 19

8:00am-9:00amBreakfast, Group Dialogue & Reflection(Waterman Manor)

9:00am-12:00pm Group Dialogue & Reflection on conference: Key Insights

(Vern Grubinger)(Waterman 427)

  • The Complex Dynamics of the Food System; multiple models
  • Values, networks, and structural features of food systems

12:00pm-1:00pmLunch(Waterman Manor)

1:00pm-3:00pm(Vern Grubinger) (Waterman 427)

  • Innovative & Practical Models for Localizing the Food System
  • Leadership skills: vision, planning, measuring, collaborating

3:00pm-5:00pmSelf-Directed Work for Community Solutions (Waterman 427)

5:00pmDinner on your own at Summervale

Friday, June 20

8:00am-9:00amBreakfast(Waterman Manor)

9:00am-12:00pm Strategic, Critical Communication & Persuasion (TBD)(Waterman 427)

12:00pm-1:00pmLunch (Waterman Manor)

1:00pm-1:30pmGroup Dialogue, Reflection – changing your communication tactics

1:30pm-2:30pm Closing (Waterman Manor)

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