Loving Spoonful welcomes inquiries about lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations or other occasions to talk about community food security and social justice.  Please contact Susan Belyea [susan@lovingspoonful.org] to discuss how we can best address topics of interest to your organization, classroom or congregation. For examples, please see below.

Oct 2011, From the Ground up:  Planting seeds for our sustainable future.  Ban Righ Centre, Queen’s University.

April 2011 (with Powers, Dr. E.),  Hungry Kingston. Lecture and panel discussion, for Meal Exchange, Queen’s University.

March 2011 (with Dr. Robert Bullard), Food and Environmental Justice, Environmental Justice Conference, Queen’s University.

March 2011/2010, Canada and Food Aid – a Global Perspective,  Lecture, International Development Studies Course 100, Canada and the Third World, Queen’s University

March 2011/2010, Canada and Food Aid – a  Local Perspective,  Lecture, International Development Studies Course 100, Canada and the Third World, Queen’s University

March 2011, Edible Action; Food and the Promise of Urban Agriculture, Environmental Studies 315 class lecture, Queen’s University.

April 2010, A Future for Urban Agriculture Projects in Kingston, QTED Talks, Grad Club, Queen’s University

March 2010, Vouchers for food at the Community Harvest Market in Kingston, Conference paper co-written and presented with the Community Harvest Working Group.  Sustain Ontario’s Bring Food Home Conference, Kitchener-Waterloo.

February 2010 (with Nathan Putnam and Mike Payne), Mapping Sustainable Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Kingston, Kingston Sustainability Centre; Food Security Lecture.

January 2010 From Security to Sovereignty; Designing New Food Systems, Queen’s Projects in International Development, Queen’s University.