List of Upcoming Events
Fisheries Management and Fishermen's Well-Being in the Northeast U.S.
The final spring lecture series at Maritime Gloucester is entitled "Looking Beneath the Surface at Fisheries." On May 24th join us for our final "Oceans of Discovery" presentation of the season when we host a conversation about fisheries management that explores the nexus of environmental, social, and economic issues. The session is hosted by NAMA and is moderated by our science coordinator, Boyce Thorne Miller. All lectures are held at Maritime Gloucester and are free and open to the public. Space is limited. We hope you will join us.
Sustainability Leadership Summit
SBN’s Annual Conference on Sustainable Business will be the 23rd annual gathering convened by the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Boston. The remarkable growth of the sustainable business movement has opened up new opportunities for strengthening existing networks, building partnerships, and discovering new solutions to the economic challenges of our time. SBN has created an innovative design that transforms our traditional annual Conference on Sustainable Business into the SBN Sustainability Leadership Summit.
This dynamic and interactive one-day gathering will bring together many of the New England’s most successful entrepreneurs, community organizers, local funders, nonprofit leaders, and academics - including NAMA. The intention of the Summit is to not only have strengthened and connected local business networks but to result in concrete actions that build our local economy. The Summit will be organized around five pillars of a strong local economy that will enable local leaders to discover partnerships and collaborations that will grow a sustainable economy. The five local economy pillars are listed in the agenda below.
Strategies for a New Economy
What would an economy built on principles of fairness and sustainability look like? How do we model it; where is it emerging; how do we collectively strategize to fully implement it? These are the pressing questions of our time and we are glad to be taking part in this conference that wants to start answering these questions.
Stay tuned for more information on our participation. Or stay on top of things by visiting the conference website.
Seafood Throwdown at Cape Cod Maritime Festival
Seafood Throwdowns will be on the Cape this summer! Stay tuned for details.
Stock Structure of Atlantic Cod
The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) announces a three-day workshop, sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, to address issues around cod stock structure in the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, Scotian Shelf, and southern New England regions. The workshop will explore current research to inform the cod assessment process. Invited participants from the fishing and scientific communities will present on a range of topics with opportunities for discussion.
Necessary (r)Evolution for Sustainable Food Systems
Two days of intense discussions about what it takes to have a revolutionary approach to a healthy, sustainable local food system. And we'll be there to add to the conversation.
NAMA's director, Niaz Dorry, will be one of the presenters during The Necessary (r)Evolution for Sustainable Food Systems Amplified Conference. This free public conference on June 28 will feature series of influential and innovative speakers to amplify the most important ideas, initiatives, and voices for the necessary food systems revolution. The goal is to inform and inspire people to take their place and embrace their responsibility to help solve the urgent issue of our broken food system. For a full list of speakers for this day click on this link. Niaz will also take part in other aspects of the multi-day summit.
For more information, please visit the summit website.
Seafood Throwdown @ Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket
So excited to be back in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket for another Seafood Throwdown. Stay tuned for details.
Check out this video from last year's Throwdown!
Seafood Throwdown at Cape Ann Farmers Market
Seafood Throwdowns is back at the Cape Ann Farmers Market this summer! Stay tuned for details.
Digging In! Farm to Cafeteria Conference
Join us as we once work to broaden the Farm to Cafeteria discussion to embrace Boat to Cafeteria! This year we have once again teamed up with the National Family Farm Coalition to organize a panel titled "Food Sovereignty Principles and Farm to School Programs." This panel will discuss ways in which the principles of food sovereignty - a community's democratic control of its food - can be applied to Farm to School programs, enabling farmers and fishermen to provide foods for local schoolchildren while receiving a fair price for their product.
Stay tuned for more specifics on time of the panel, but here is scoop on the topic and who will be presenting.
Moderator, Kathy Ozer, executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition.
Panelists are:
- Darnella serves as a Cooperative Field Specialist and the Farm to School Coordinator for the Association (MAC), working with Mississippi and Louisiana cooperative farmers to provide produce for local schools. A farmer and farmer advocate based in southern Mississippi, she provides insight on successful Farm to School networks from the cooperative farmer's perspective.
- Amanda is on the board of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. A graduate of Tufts’ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Agriculture, Food and Environment program, she participates in the Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine. Her work focuses on corporate consolidation, linkages between watersheds and agriculture and synergies between fishermen and farmers.
As members of the international peasant organization La Via Campesina, we support and promote the principles of food sovereignty – the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable practices. Our panelists represent organizations that are working actively to help family farmers and fishermen gain access to markets that have closed over time or which have never been available to them. As well, seafood and other fish are often overlooked in Farm to School programs, but they are valuable and sustainable sources of protein for some communities. Panelist will describe their experiences and success stories to get food from family farmers and fishermen into their local schools at a fair price.
Seafood Throwdown at Cape Ann Farmers Market
Seafood Throwdowns is back at the Cape Ann Farmers Market this summer! Stay tuned for details.
Seafood Throwdown at Day at the Docks
For the first time, Seafood Throwdown is coming to North Carolina's Outer Banks! We'll be part of a 3 day celebration Day at the Docks. Stay tuned for details.
New Hampshire Fish & Lobster Festival aka Fishtival!
So excited to be back at the New Hampshire Fishtival for another Seafood Throwdown. Stay tuned for details.
Common Ground Country Fair
After a hiatus, we're back at the Common Ground Country Fair for a Seafood Throwdown. Can't wait! Stay tuned for details.
Working Waterfront Festival
So excited to be back at the Working Waterfront Festival for another Seafood Throwdown. Who will emerge victorious this year? Stay tuned for details.
Boston Local Food Festival
So excited to be back at the Boston Local Food Festival for another Seafood Throwdown. Stay tuned for details.
Seafood Throwdown at South Shore Celebrations
Seafood Throwdown are SOSSEXI! The newest CSF on the South Shore is teaming up with NAMA to bring a Seafood Throwdown to the South Shore Celebrations event. Stay tuned for details.
Seafood Throwdown @ the Rockport Harvest Fest
So excited to be back at the Harvest Fest for another Seafood Throwdown. Stay tuned for details.
Homecoming Weekend - Celebrating our Maritime Heritage
Our foray onto the Cape this year continues with another Seafood Throwdown. This one during Chatham's Homecoming Weekend - Celebrating Our Maritime Heritage. Stay tuned for details.
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