Moderator: Kathleen Thompson Hill Sonoma School Garden Project Founder & Director Food & Wine Editor, Sonoma Index-Tribune kathleenthompsonhill.com Panelists: Grayson James - Founder, Petaluma Bounty. As a principal with Resource Performance Partners, Grayson has also worked with organizations and local governments to improve their sustainability performance, and formed the City of Petaluma’s Build It Green program and Green Team in 2006. Grayson’s topic is Growing a Sustainable Food System - What We're Learning. Meg Easter-Dawson, MSW Valley of the Moon Children's Center Sonoma County Human Services Department Meg Easter-Dawson is the Program Development Manager for Volunteer and Community Programs at the Valley of the Moon Children’s Center. In this role she manages community involvement in the Children’s Center including coordinating on-site volunteers, developing partnerships with community-based organizations to support program needs of the children at the center, and supporting fundraising efforts. Meg will talk about the center’s healthy food kitchen program and vegetable garden. Ruth Roberson has been in the School Garden movement since 2000. She is one of the original founders of the School Garden Network of Sonoma County. Currently she is Project Coordinator for a Local Incentive Award program called the Network for a Healthy California through the California Dept. of Public Health. She is currently helping with the design of Sonoma County’s first community focused garden on regional park land at Larson Park. Rachel Kohn Obut – Rachel has been passionate about farming since childhood when she attended farm camp in Pennsylvania. After graduating from Oberlin College in 2005, she worked on farms on the east coast and the west coast, in France and the Middle East. In 2010 she and Austin Blair created Lunita Farm, a 1 acre mixed vegetable farm located in Sonoma Valley. Following the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, Lunita Farm primarily markets its produce through a weekly vegetable subscription service.