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Lorraine Matthews, a nutri tionist in the City of Philadelphia Dept, of Health for more than 32 years, received The Future of Our Food and Farms Career Achievement Award. Matthews, who grew up on a farm in lowa, “has worked in al most every capacity as a nutri tionist in Philadelphia,” said Sandy Sherman of The Food Trust in presenting the award. Beside working as a nutrition ist, Matthews has also served on numerous research and educa tion committees and is active in hunger advocacy and commu nity-housing programs. In Octo ber, she received the Medallion Award from the American Die tetic Association. I dik to vour f ai m I t imil\ client I i ii i r in hi i 1 01 M Matthews said she enjoys bringing her farm experiences to the work of educating people about food and nutrition “There's an awful lot of people in this world who don't know where their food comes from," she said. Matthews lectures widely on a variety of topics and has author ed more than 40 ai tides on health care, legislative issues, health promotion, and participa tive education. Sessions thioughout the two day summit addressed such top ics as: food for every child; har vesting support for locally-grown food; sprawl: a threat or an op portunity for food and food secu rity; nutrition education: success ful small-farm cooperatives; new ventures for African-American farmers; keys to farmland protec tion; youth innovators; reconnect ing agriculture, food, and com munity; reaching hungry people through miraculous collabora tions; direct marketing; and food safety from field to fork. The 4th Annual Future of Our Food & Farms Summit was or Penn State Experts Write Forest Estate-Planning Book UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) When you are dead and gone, what will happen to that tract of forestland you worry about managing? Two experts in Penn State’s College of Agricul tural Sciences have written a book to help you have some say. “Estate Planning Opportunities and Strategies for Private Forest Landowners,” by Michael G. Jacob son, assistant professor of forest resources and extension forester, and John C. Becker, pro fessor of agricultural economics and law, is available on the Na tional Timber Tax Website at http;// www.timber tax.org. The book is available only on the Website because of continuous changes to tax law. “Printed copies like ly would become out dated quickly,” said Jacobson. “The Web enables us to update the information easily. “Although there is intense discussion about repealing feder al ‘death taxes,’ com monly known as the Federal Estate and Gift Tax,” he said, “private forest land owners in the United States need to under stand the role that their forest assets play in their overall estate. They also need to ap preciate the impor- Hi Ml \tt I ganized by the Northeast Sus tainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) and spon sored in part by Land O'Lakes, Northeast SAKE, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, and the Pennsylvania Nutrition Edu cation Program Other featured speakers in cluded Dr. Marion Nestle, profes sor and chair oi nutrition and food studies at New \ork Uni versity and membei of the FDA's science board, and Michael Castle. L.S representative from Delaware. Castle affirmed the need tor both non-government and gov ernment organizations to join to gether in eliminating hunger and educating people about nutrition. A billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutri tion, Castle said, with 33 million in the U.S. living in households that deal with hunger, including those “who are not just hungry but are physically suffering.” Inadequate delivery systems are a major reason not everyone has enough to eat, according to Castle. 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