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Gainesville’s Food Producers

March 13, 2021 @ 1:00 pm

Conversations in the Neighborhood: Let’s Talk about Food

What challenges face Gainesville’s farmers? How have they tried to circumvent the problems posed by COVID-19? What measures are they taking to protect their customers? This panel brings together farmers from Gainesville and surrounding areas to explore how they are harvesting crops.

Meet the Moderator

Amy Vu
Amy Vu is the Extension coordinator for the Honey Bee Research and Extension Lab, where she focuses on extension programming for beekeepers of all operations (small scale to commercial). Vu runs the University of Florida Master Beekeeper Program, the University of Florida Bee Colleges, UF IFAS Honey Bee Blog, “Two Bees in a Podcast”, speaker requests, website, media inquiries and the lab’s social media pages among other projects. Amy has her undergraduate degree in Agronomy, with an emphasis on Soils and Environmental Science, a minor in natural resources and a Master’s degree in Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education from Virginia Tech. Before joining the HBREL, she worked at the University of Florida’s International Center, and was Orange County Extension’s urban horticulture agent and Master Gardener coordinator.

Meet the Speakers

Lenon Fisher
Lennon Fisher is the coordinator of Fisher Farms, a fifth-generation farm located in Jonesville, Florida, specializing in locally grown southern crops to help keep the community fed.

 

Ana Garcia

Ana Garcia is the co-owner of Fruitful Earth Farms, a first-generation farm dedicated to raising premium Angus beef naturally, humanely, and using land-healing, regenerative practices.

Conversations in the Neighborhood: Let’s Talk About Food is funded by a Community Project Grant from the Florida Humanities Council, the Office of Equity and Inclusion in the City of Gainesville, the University of Florida (UF) Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), UF Chief Diversity Officer, UF Center for Gender, Sexualities & Women’s Studies Research, UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, UF Center for Latin American Studies, UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, UF Center for African Studies, UF African American Studies program, UF Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UF Center for European Studies, UF International Center, UF Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, and UF Office of Sustainability.

Register here.

All events will be held virtually. They are free and open to the public.

For questions, please contact Alexandra Cenatus as acenatus@ufl.edu

Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Details

Date:
March 13, 2021
Time:
1:00 pm
Website:
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Venue

ZOOM
Meeting ID: 945 5862 5941 + Google Map