{"id":1261,"date":"2015-01-25T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2015-03-07T20:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:43:06","slug":"wanted-nominations-of-beginning-farmers-for-the-2015-john-kinsman-food-sovereingty-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=1261","title":{"rendered":"John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize Award Dinner & Ceremony! Sat. March 14th 5-9 pm UW-Madison Pyle Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Family Farm Defenders is pleased to announce the two winners of this year’s John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize.\u00a0 They are Carsten Thomas from Moorhead, MN and Emmet Fisher and Cella Langer from Mt. Horeb, WI.\u00a0 Carsten operates a diverse organic farm in the Red River Valley, honoring Native food heritage, and also offers many hands-on environmental education programs.\u00a0 Cella and Emmet own Oxheart Farm producing food for farmers markets and a community supported agriculture (CSA) program.\u00a0 Cella & Emmet also manage the Farley Center’s Farm Incubator and Land Link program outside Verona, WI.\u00a0 <\/span>Each prize winner will be receiving a $2000 cash prize at the award dinner <\/span>
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With Keynote Speaker: Marty Strange,co-founder of the Center for\u00a0 Rural Affairs and author of Family Farming: a New Economic Vision<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Introduced by UW-Madison Prof. Jack Kloppenburg, coordinator of the Opne Source Seed Initiative (OSSI)<\/p>\n

Sat. March 14th<\/sup> 5:00 \u2013 9:00 pm <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

UW-Madison’s Pyle Center <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

(702 Langdon St., Madison WI)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Among t<\/span>he current sponsors of this year’s John Kinsman prize which FFD is especially proud to recognize are:\u00a0 Jean Kinsman, Food and Water Watch, Hiroshi and Arlene Kanno, Willy St. Co-op, John Adamowski, Cornucopia Institute, Jim and Rebecca Goodman (Northwood Farms), Midwest Environmental Advocates, John and Mary Ann Kinsman, Viroqua Food Co-op, Tony Schultz and Kat Becker (Stoney Acres Farm), Farley Center for Peace Justice and Sustainability, M. Grace Grzanek, Pete Hardin (the Milkweed), Krueger Printing, and Bill Anderson (Creme de la Coulee).<\/p>\n

Preceded from 12:00 Noon \u2013 4:00 pm by the <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Family Farm Defenders Annual Meeting<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

With updates on such issues as the dairy crisis, frack <\/span><\/p>\n

sand mining, climate justice, genetically modified <\/span><\/p>\n

organisms, and factory farm struggles, as well as board <\/span><\/p>\n

elections. The public is most welcome to attend! <\/span><\/p>\n

Award Dinner tickets are $50 per person <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

($35 for low income or student)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

You can purchase your ticket online here JK Prize Dinner Tickets!<\/a><\/p>\n

For more info, contact FFD: tel. 608-260-0900 email: familyfarmdefenders@yahoo.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Farm Defenders is pleased to announce the two winners of this year’s John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize.\u00a0 They are Carsten Thomas from Moorhead, MN and Emmet Fisher and Cella Langer from Mt. Horeb, WI.\u00a0 Carsten operates a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}