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Our very own Anna Bohbot (Zulaica) contributing to the Menus of Change Leadership Summit program. If you have not been to this conference, we highly recommend you check it out! https://lnkd.in/dwbyiEN

We are looking forward to the winding down over this holiday week and holiday season as we strap our boots on preparing for 2025. We are thankful for our wonderful network of thought leaders, partners, farmers, and producers we get to work with to continuously improve our regional food systems. If you haven't thanked your local farmer/rancher/producer, try to do so this week 🤎 On December 3rd, SupplyChange be attending the Winter Gathering at the UCSC Hay Barn. If anyone in our network will be attending, would love to catch up. Spread the word and RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/db2Z6Bdz #alwaysnetworking #thankyourfarmer #thankyourrancher #thankyourproducer Anna Bohbot (Zulaica) Heather "H" Nieto-Friga UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology

It's not too late to sign up for this FREE workshop presented by SupplyChange CEO Heather "H" Nieto-Friga, tomorrow at 8:15am PT / 10:15am CT / 11:15am ET: Cracking the Wholesale Code: Market Insights for Farmers + Advocates - see the Zoom registration link for a description of the workshop. Huge thanks to the Chicago Food Policy Action Council for hosting this amazing multi-day event for producers and allies! Our friends at Midwest Foods and The Common Market are holding a panel right afterward that will build on the strategies we cover in our session - don't miss it!

Big weeks up ahead! CEO H Nieto-Friga (Frambach) will be hitting the talk and workshop circuit: Mon 10/28: Wholesale sales training for farmers and advocates with Chicago Food Policy Action Council/Chicago Metro GFPI's Fall 2024 mixer (Scaling For Success), plus a panel with Midwest Foods on getting real about institutional procurement challenges! Tues 10/29: Presenting with University of California Office of the President and UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology at the AASHE conference on our work to level up sustainable food procurement across the UC system Weds 10/30: Guest teaching at University of California, Berkeley in Helene York and Will Rosenzweig's class on values-based supply chains with Shannen Casey and Clifford Pollard We love sharing what we're learning in the field. If you have any needs for training your team, your community of farmers, or other stakeholders, we're here for you!

We want to give a huge shoutout to the work that our friends at Climate Farm School is doing! 🙌 There is still time to snag a spot in their upcoming course in the Hudson Valley in September! Details below.... Climate Farm School is a unique opportunity for food and sustainability professionals to live and work on a regenerative farm for a week while learning about climate solutions within sustainable food systems. The course runs for 4 weeks, with weeks 1, 2 and 4 online, and the 3rd week on the farm. Program elements include hands-on farm work, soil health workshop, meals prepared alongside local chefs and farmers, climate leadership development, generative discussions and networking with people with similar interests. There are still a few spots for the fall course in the Hudson Valley, September 22-28 at Hawthorne Valley Farm, including scholarship spots available. You can learn more and apply on the website. Feel free to contact program director Alana Siegner with any questions: laney@climatefarmschool.org and please help us spread the word! 📢 🗣 https://lnkd.in/dMvdgVPb #continuingeducation #backtoschool #regenerativefarming #onfarmleaning #climate #foodsystemseducation #foodsystemschange

Still energized from this convening at UCSC last week! We brought together dining directors and UC leadership from across the system to envision how we get to 25% sustainable food purchasing across the board. Our team lifted up insights we gathered from speaking with dining teams. We presented pilots we are launching and growing with Permanent, Vesta Foodservice, Yolo Food Network (Capay Valley Farm Shop, Marcellus Foods, Matriark Foods) and Cream Co. And threw our support for re-invigorating student-driven procurement action with Real Food Challenge. SupplyChange is ready for Phase 2 of this project and helping UC charge forward as a global leader in institutional procurement!

To our farmer network and colleagues that work with farmers, please spread the word on this grant opportunity!

This June we have so much to celebrate: SupplyChange’s 4 year anniversary, founder H’s 37th birthday, and of course, Pride Month! We are a proudly queer and transmasc-owned business led by multiethnic AFABs. For those that are our close friends and colleagues, you already know how much H champions queerness and “mixed-ness” as some of the most powerful lenses to bring to systems change work - including and especially food systems. To hold identities outside of societal norms is to commit to a lifelong journey of seeing and solving problems differently, and to finding and deepening relationships with our chosen families and communities so that we can write our own “science fiction” to bring new futures to life. As queer systems change visionary adrienne marie brown says, “Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together…It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.” We’re proud to be continually queering food systems with our approach, and creating new, re-regionalized, just worlds with likeminded allies, partners, and farms. Enjoy some photos below of our new farm partner Star Route Farm/Catskills Agrarian Alliance in upstate New York, which H had the pleasure of visiting last month. Sending love to all of our LGBTQ+ partners and allies in this work, and Happy Pride! #pridemonth #LGBTQAlly #supplychange 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 H Nieto-Friga (Frambach) Tianna Kennedy Anna Bohbot (Zulaica)

Happy Juneteenth! Here is our next Farmer Spotlight of our friends at Dig Deep Farms & Food Hub. Such an inspiring team! #juneteenth #supportyourlocalfarmer #supportBIPOCfarms #localfood