Growing Power on Milwaukee Renaissance

The 2006 National Summit on Garden Policy is sponsored by the Drake University Agricultural Law Center and State and Local Food Policy Project in cooperation with the National Gardening Association. Bruce Butterfield, director of research at the NGA, will be presenting results of a new attitudinal survey that looks at “What Gardeners Think.” The Drake Agricultural Law Center will publish the conference proceedings as a special report in 2007.

Other key presenters include: Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project; Lynn Fredericks, founder of FamilyCook Productions and chair of Les Dames d’Escoffier International’s Green Tables Initiative; and Will Rapp, founder and president of Gardner’s Supply Co.

The schedule for the conference, titled “Gardens For All: People, Plants and Policy,” is posted at http://www.nationalgardenmonth.org/index.php?page=garden_policy.

Those attending the conference will have the opportunity to tour a number of interesting garden facilities in the greater Des Moines areas, including area community gardens; the Des Moines Botanical Center; Brenton Arboretum near Dallas Center; the Neal Smith Prairie Learning Center near Prairie City; Salisbury House and Gardens; Terrace Hill; the Homestead; Living History Farms; and Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden.

The conference is co-sponsored by Seed Savers Exchange, American Community Garden Association, American Public Garden Association, Les Dames d’Escoffier, International, the Center for Ecoliteracy Slow Food USA, the U.S. Botanic Garden, Project for Public Spaces, Des Moines Parks and Recreation, Des Moines Founders Garden Club, the Gardens Writers Association, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, the Iowa Food Policy Council and the Iowa Network for Community Agriculture.

“Gardens For All: People, Plants and Policy” is made possible by financial support from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, with additional support from Organic Valley Family of Farms, Gardener’s Supply Inc. and Drake University.

The conference is a National Gardening Association Project Grow initiative, supported in part by Hilton Garden Inns, Subaru, Black and Decker, Ames True Value, Home Depot and the Scott’s Company.

Last Modified: 11/06/2006 14:24:31 by content editor <javascript:;>

Official Page of Drake University € Privacy & Usage Policy <http://www.drake.edu/webcom/webpolicy/>
Drake University <http://www.drake.edu/> € 2507 University Avenue € Des Moines, IA 50311 € 1–800–44-DRAKE € (515) 271–2011
Copyright © 2006 Drake University. All rights reserved.