Polly Ericksen
The Burlington Garden Club welcomes speaker Polly Ericksen, inaugural director of the University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center to its next monthly meeting, Tuesday, April 23, 1 p.m., Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., South Burlington.
Ericksen has been recognized as an early pioneer in the field of food systems research and is a seminal scholar who uses interdisciplinary approaches to solve complex food systems issues in the context of global environmental change. She has spent much of her career working across disciplines to link science with development policy and resource mobilization.
She will explain what is meant by food systems research and why the university is privileged to host a Food Systems Research Center. She will also welcome questions about food systems in New England.
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