Producers, processors, chefs and allied businesses will benefit from an opportunity to join members of the NC Local Sustainable Food Advisory Council to discuss opportunities and challenges to advancing the niche meat sector in the state, including through regulatory reform.

The NC Local Sustainable Foods Advisory Council and NC Choices are hosting a Local Foods Listening Session during the Second Carolina Meat Conference at the WinRock Center in Kernersville on Tuesday December 4 from 10:15-11:45 a.m. 

www.carolinameatconference.com

At the session will be:

Don Delozier, Director, NCDA&CS Meat and Poultry Inspection Division;  Judy R Daye, Environmental Health Regional Specialist, Food Protection Program, Division of Public Health, NC Department of Health and Human Services; and  Keith Payne, Deputy Director, Outreach and Partnership Division, Food Safety and Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture.   Facilitators are:  Shivaugn Rayl , Sustainable Food NC, Coalition Director, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and Debbie Hamrick, Director, Specialty Crops, North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation and NC Local Sustainable Foods Advisory Council.

(Those who wish to participate in the listening session, but are not registered for the Carolina Meat Conference should check in at the registration desk at 10am for a special pass to attend the session from 10:15-11:45.  For more information about sponsorship, trade show opportunities, or other details, contact Meredith McKissick 828.582.5039 or Meredith@ncchoices.com

PS: The NC Local Sustainable Foods Advisory Council had a fabulous listening session at the Charlotte School of Law in cooperation with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Food Policy Council and Mecklenburg County Cooperative Extension last night.  About 100 attended.  If you are involved with meat production or processing in NC and have input into developing our state’s local meat economy, please join us!

Debbie Hamrick

Director Specialty Crops

North Carolina Farm Bureau

PO Box 27766

Raleigh, NC 27611-7766

(919) 334-2977

Cell: (919) 302-9538

debbie.hamrick@ncfb.org