Community Food Advocates, in partnership with the Nashville Food Policy Council, will host Food Summit 2011 at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel on May 7th, 2011 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. The Summit will be a gathering of stakeholders – from farm to fork – across Nashville’s diverse food system.

“Food Summit 2011 – Growing an Agenda for Change” will celebrate and highlight food systems accomplishments in Nashville, feature “best practices” from national experts, equip participants with advocacy and change-making skills, and help set an agenda for change for the future.

Community Food Advocates is a non-profit organization in Nashville dedicated to the notion that all members of our community should have access to food grown in a way that promotes the health of people, planet and community. Community Food Advocates works with community residents, policy makers and businesses to provide education about food assistance programs, advocate for policies that ensure equitable access to healthy food, and bring healthy foods back into food desert neighborhoods.

The Nashville Food Policy Council is a program of Community Food Advocates and is funded in full by the Department of Health and Human Services, as part of the Metro Public Health Department’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work campaign. The Nashville Food Policy Council engages City/County policy makers, consumer interest groups, retail food industry, local agriculture industry, and faith- and community-based organizations to strengthen and align efforts to create food system change in our community.

For more information on Food Summit 2011, please contact Shavaun Evans at 615-385-2286 ext. 226

The event is free and open to the public.