With travel possibilities still uncertain, Food Export Northeast has added a number of virtual events to their schedule. The new format is in high demand and events are selling out very quickly. Check out the linked activities for more information! 

Virtual Connect: Ingredients and Additives 
Dates: October 27-28, 2020
Early Registration Deadline: September 16, 2020: $200

Virtual Trade Mission to Korea for Emerging Trends, Healthy, and Convenience Foods
Dates: November 9-13, 2020
Registration deadline: Sept. 4, 2020: $200

This toolkit is a starting point. It aims to orient and incite members toward preliminary consciousness-raising and direct action. This toolkit does not detail a universally applicable pathway toward resolving pervasive racialized oppression; it is an initial resource for people who are overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the problem, and need help determining how to start dismantling racism in their communities. We hope these resources help build foundations for broader organizing in our networks, and more concrete action toward dismantling racism and reckoning with histories of racialized dispossession and violence. As always, we invite feedback and critique on the structure and content of this document; we plan to create revised versions of this resource in the future

Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support projects that encourage and leverage new and emerging leaders, and those that center racial, social, and environmental justice.

Applications are accepted from August 15th-September 15th and are targeted to primarily serve the White River and Upper Valley region, but wider bioregional projects will be considered. For more information, contact Mindy Blank at mindy@gocros.org.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is standing up a new team that will lead a department-wide effort focused on serving beginning farmers and ranchers.

To institutionalize support for beginning farmers and ranchers and to build upon prior agency work, the 2018 Farm Bill directed USDA to create a national coordinator position in the agency and state-level coordinators for four of its agencies – Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Risk Management Agency (RMA), and Rural Development (RD).