Food Futures Dream Lab
Salon 5 • 3:00pm — 4:30pm
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
Building Conflict Resilience: Unlocking the Transformative Possibility Within Conflict
Salon 5 • 1:00pm — 2:30pm
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
The Transformative Power of Seed Saving
Salon 5 • 10:00am — 11:30am
Generations often feel divided, with our systems encouraging the siloing of youth, adults, and elders, and our culture broadly reinforcing disconnection from each other. However, we are not so different. We must recognize that no matter what age, we are all ancestors in training: What we do, how we speak and think, creates impacts that extend far beyond our own lifetimes.
In the movement to reimagine and transform our food system, we need youth voices. We need elder voices. Even in the absence of true liberation and cooperative models in our region today, together, we can lovingly plant seeds of hope for their existence in the future. We can spread awareness of our continuous history, practice connection with our ancestors, and ensure generational knowledge of the land.
Loving and connecting with every generation leads us to the realization that we are never alone in this universe—we have communal strength and resilience, and an accountability to each other. This is the reason we are here today.