Agriculture / Community Gardens

90-Minute Education Session

FRI-A01 - The Landscape of Food: The Link Between Climate, Food, and Resilient Communities

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

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  April Philips, FASLA

  Founder and Principal
  April Philips Design Works

Speaker(s)

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  Ann Cutner Firestone, ASLA, LEED AP

  Executive Director
  Solutions for Urban Agriculture
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  Katie Ettman

  Food and Agriculture Policy Associate
  SPUR

As landscape architects, we are poised to see and act on the hidden connections among climate adaptation, urban agriculture, food waste, and public health. A new design approach for creating innovative solutions to these critical issues facing urban environments today is combining “foodshed planning” with climate resilient infrastructure.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the hidden connections between food waste, hunger, and climate so that landscape architects can provide innovative and adaptive solutions that better address climate change and community resilience.
• Learn how community planning that integrates sustainable agriculture principles and climate resilient solutions can better protect communities from disasters, address equity and public health, and increase real estate values.
• See how optimizing opportunities for the creation of local and regional foodsheds as part of eco-infrastructure will help cities tap into the circular economy using two California case studies.
• Understand how landscape architects can help shape and advocate for climate and food policy that promotes community resiliency, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere, sustainable agriculture, and zero waste.