The Local Farm to Fork Movement

Gurumantra Khalsa, Editor Nutrition News
Seth Wilson, Riverside Food Systems Alliance

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM — Room 103

Get an update on the activities and projects of the Riverside Food Systems Alliance. Find out how you can play a role in creating a future where growing food and agricultural products creates businesses, jobs, good health, great taste and a sustainable path to prosperity from Growing Riverside…

For over 20 years, Gurumantra has been the publisher of Nutrition News, an award-winning newsletter about food, nutrition and health. Gurumantra is a long-time community activist and chair of the Riverside Food Systems Alliance (RFSA), a newly formed organization that supports a sustainable, local agricultural economy. RFSA works to make healthy food accessible to all. Gurumantra serves on Riverside’s Green Leadership Summit, the Mayor’s Sustainability Collaborative, Friends of Riverside’s Hills, and works with neighborhood groups to make Riverside “a city of our dreams”.

Seth Wilson is Director of Clean Economy Development at Cutting Edge Capital. He develops markets around social-ecological systems. An experienced utilities and energy manager of portfolios resilient to weather, resource and market uncertainties, Seth is adapting techniques to build greater community health, wealth and local resiliency. He is a patent inventor of a credit derivative, designs securities crowdfunding for infrastructure and business development, and is a cofounder of a water clean-tech company. Seth currently serves as executive director of the Riverside Food Systems Alliance.