Contact: John E. Peck, executive director #608-260-0900
Lindsey Morris Carpenter of Grassroots Farm near Monroe, WI and Daniel and Hannah Miller of Easy Yoke Farm near Millville, MN Plan to Attend the Fundraiser Dinner and Award Ceremony at Goodman Community Center in Madison on Sat. Nov. 12th to Accept Their $2000 Prizes
Sat. Nov. 12th 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Goodman Community Center (149 Waubesa St. in Madison)
Family Farm Defenders is pleased to announce two winners of its first annual John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Award. It was difficult for the selection committee since nearly a dozen qualified beginning farmers were nominated.
Lindsey Morris Carpenter has been running Grassroots Farm, a 40 member Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operation near Monroe, WI with her mother, Gale, since 2007. She studied fine arts in Philadelphia, PA before moving back to the Midwest to start raising vegetables, fruit, chickens and pastured pigs.
Daniel and Hannah Miller have operated Easy Yoke Farm near Millville MN as a CSA operation since 2010 and also sell at farmers markets, co-ops, and retail markets. Besides their young children, they also have draft horses to help with farm work.
Both winners will be receiving a cash prize of $2000, plus a fair trade holiday gift basket.
The prize is named in honor of John Kinsman, organic dairy farmer and forester near Lime Ridge, WI, founder and president of Family Farm Defenders, as well as longtime pioneer of sustainable agriculture and outspoken advocate of food sovereignty for decades.
Award Ceremony highlights include:
Welcome by UW-Madison Prof. Jack Kloppenburg and FFD Pres. John Kinsman
Harvest Dinner featuring artisanal cheese and crackers, wild rice, roasted vegetables, organic grass-fed beef, dessert, fair trade coffee and/or locally crafted beer and wine
Excerpts from a recent Food Sovereignty talk by John Kinsman at the Jane Addams Hull House in Chicago, hosted by Farm Together Now editor, Daniel Tucker.
Photos, videos, and comments from the 2011 Prize Winners.
Silent auction featuring a wide variety of local organic and fair trade food and craft items, plus other holiday gifts.
Tickets for the harvest dinner and award ceremony are still available online through the Family Farm Defender website: www.familyfarmdefenders.org or by mail through the Family Farm Defender office: 1019 Williamson St. #B, Madison, WI 53703. #608-260-0900
Advance Tickets (by 11/1/11) are $50 per person for FFD members ($75 for non-members, $35 for students and limited income). Tickets purchased after Nov. 1st are $10 more.
