Yes, our Roots 2018 culinary conference is rapidly approaching – and Catherine Golding, the North America Business Development Manager of Meat & Livestock Australia, is looking forward to participating on a panel. In fact, she’ll actually be moderating Cultivating a New Perspective on the Buy Local Movement.
The whole buy local food movement is well intentioned, explains Farmer Lee Jones, and this movement has had the wonderful effect of helping people to refocus on where their food actually comes from. “It’s fabulous to focus on and then fix that disconnect,” Lee says, “because it’s very important to know where your food comes from and, in the case of crops, to know how they were grown.”