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4th Annual Florida Food is Medicine Symposium October 8th, 2026

Hosted by the Florida Health & Nutrition Coalition, the South Florida Hunger Coalition and Culinary Health Institute at 4 Roots Farm

Register today >>  


 Thursday, October 8, 2026


@ Center for Health & Wellbeing

2005 Mizell Ave, Winter Park, FL 32792


@4 Roots Farm

1101 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL 32808


AGENDA

Main Symposium 

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM


4 Roots Farm to Table Supper, Tours, & Warm Conversations around the Table

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM


Culinary Health Masterclass in the Teaching Kitchen

1:30 - 3:30 PM  Pre-Registration Required, Max 25 students.


Truck Rally - Mobile Farm Markets & Food Pharmacies Tours

3:30 - 5:00 PM


Three Ticket Types:

  1. Live Tickets are free and expected to sell out
  2. Virtual Tickets are free
  3. Culinary Health Masterclass Tickets are $25 and expected to sell out


Register today >>  

REGISTER NOW FOR 2026 FL FIM SYMPOSIUM >>

OCTOBER 9th, 2026 | Stay for DAy 2 in Sunny ORLANDO, FL

FARM TO HEALTHCARE, The Only Interactive Culinary Health CME Event October 9th, 2026 @ 4 Roots Farm

 The Farm to Healthcare event is the Day 2 experience of the Florida Food is Medicine Partnership Series, where you can expect to:


  • Learn to apply Food as Medicine in Clinical Care
  • Apply Food as Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Shared Medical Appointment (SMA) models with practical clinical takeaways you can use immediately.
  • Participate in hands-on culinary and experiential learning sessions that reinforce behavior-change strategies
  •  Gain insights from nationally recognized physicians, registered dietitians, and expert faculty in the fields of nutrition and lifestyle medicine 
  •  Engage with interdisciplinary health professionals across agriculture and healthcare industries.
  • Ticket limited to 60 seats at the table, and will sell out. 

 

Ticket price of $595.00  includes 7 CME/CPEU credits, CHI Certificate of Completion for Day 2’s Introduction to Full Plate Living Training Program, plus aprons, books, and more (valued at $120). 

Book your Seats at the Table Today

Join the Culinary Health Institute and Ardmore Institute of Health at the 4Roots Farm in Orlando, FL for the 2nd Annual Farm to Health CME Conference on Friday, October 9, 2026.

7:30 AM - 6:00 PM 


Earn up to 7 CME/CPEU credits while enjoying an informative and engaging experience.

Register Day 2 Here>>
Watch the 2025 FL FIM Symposium Video

AGENDA (subject to change)

FLORIDA FIM SYMPOSIUM | OCT 8, 2026

Arrivals

 8:00 am 

Welcome! Doors open, Registration, Materials & Handouts.

Opening Breakfast & Networking

8:00 am - 8:45 am 

BREAKFAST SPONSOR: Sifter Solutions  Network and enjoy healthy breakfast and  fresh coffee or tea, meet Andrew Parkinson, CEO, Sifter Solutions and Health-Friendly


  • FREE Healthy Food Rx Shopping Companion for all  Florida Food is Medicine programs and clients. Try it! 

Welcoming Remarks

8:30 am - 8:45 am   

Welcome from  Maura Plante, FL Health & Nutrition Coalition 

Dr. Jay Groves, 4 Roots Farm & Culinary Health Institute

Michael Farver, CEO, South Florida Hunger Coalition 

Why FIM Now

8:45 am - 9:00 am

"What is Your Why?" by Kim Saiswick, Board Chair, South Florida Hunger Coalition, with Celines Martinez, RDN, HEBNI 

Your Q's cards for A's from all our speakers 

Food is Health Welcome

9:00 am - 9:20 am   

Welcome by Leadership in Health & Human Services, Office of the Secretary

Speaker to be confirmed.

FIM Keynote:

9:20 am - 10:00 am   

Keynote: our  best in FIM & Horticulture & Soil sciences

Spotlight: Partnership Maps for FIM Systems Collaboratives

10:30 am - 10:45 am   

Best in the Nation Think Tank speaker hosts the Panel of Co-Chairs from 6   Regional Networks of Excellence. 

Panel: Florida FIM Regional Networks of Excellence

10:45 am - 11:30 am   

Best in the Nation Think Tank speaker hosts the Panel of Co-Chairs from 7   Regional Networks of Excellence. 

  1. Pensacola-Pete Mougey, One Pensacola
  2. Alachua-Gerard Duncan, Alachua County Comm. Anna Prizzia
  3. Orlando-Celines Martinez, HEBNI
  4. Pasco – Nichole Dube, Access to Fresh
  5. Tampa-Dhalia Bhumbaca, Well Built 
  6. Broward - Jolene Mullens, SFHC, Wizmy Cius, Broward County
  7. Palm Beach County - Maura Plante, Healthcare District Palm Beach County (tbd)

Panel | FIM Policy Impact

10:45  am -11:30 am

Scott Darius, Florida Voices for Health is back as Host by popular demand. 

Meet Advocates, Activists and Lobbyists with updates on the FIM funding landscape now at the DC, National, Florida and County levels.

  • Florida Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.
  • Coding 4 Food, Full Well
  • HRSA (pending)
  • Food is Medicine Institute, Tufts University
  • Accountable Food is Medicine Bill, Fresh Rx OK - Erin Martin


The Visionary: Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian

Time  Change

Keynote: Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, Food is Medicine Institute, Tufts University shares his urgent indictment of the food we eat, how it is making us sick, and the choices that led us here, and a call for a revolutionary new food system that can mend our health, economy, and planet, from a world-renowned expert in nutrition, medicine, and public policy. 

*Book: FOOD IS MEDICINE - Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds, and Transforming Our Food System.

15 Minute Break

11:30 am -11:45 am Networking Break

Spotlight: Buffalo Go Green Farms to FIM Best-in-Class

11:45 am -12:15 pm   

Panel hosted by AD leading her crack team from Buffalo, NY leaders in Farms to FiM best-in-class models from the original ground-layers 30 years ago until today

Culinary Medicine Fireside Chat

12:15 pm-12:35 pm

Warm conversation about how some  healing is best found in kitchens  with Karen Joseph, Chef Trainer and American College of Culinary Medicine along with her childhood friend, TBD. 

Lunch

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm  

SPONSOR: FareRx 

You're invited to a sponsored healthy lunch by FareRx. 


FARE Rx Sofa Chat on  SYSTEM C- Founder & CEO Mike Canji, Ellen Brown - Healthcare Actually,  & Carter Williams -ISelect,  sit down for a vision-casting to topple incumbents with magnetic north guide star being positive Health Outcomes reversing the tide of chronic disease. 

Culinary Health Masterclass

1: 30 pm - 3:30 pm

Dr. Deborah Kennedy hosts  the Culinary Health Masterclass in a Teaching Kitchen . This 2-hour masterclass will explore a Build-A-Bowl food demo in the new culinary kitchen. Enjoy the tasting menu and cultural nuances. This class is co-led by HEBNI cultural heritage RDN's and 4Roots Farms with fresh picked herbs, greens or veggies. 


Max 25Tickets |  Fee: $25  | Pre-registration required.

Panel: Florida FIM All Stars 2026

1: 30 pm - 2:30 pm

Panel led by FL House Rep. Debra Tendrich  with a dynamic & lively panel discussion meeting the exciting new pack of All Stars in FIM you want to know. 

FL FIM All Star Class 2026: 

  1. West Florida 
  2. Rural Florida Hospital Partnership 
  3. Oldest PRx in Florida 
  4. Surprise 

Panel: How to Heal?

1: 30 pm - 2:30 pm

How to Heal Panel led by Ellen Brown, Healthcare Actually Founder, with a dynamic & lively panel discussion. Packed with experts at different disease intervention services to empower new health habits and lifestyle change by patients taking charge of their own health. 

Panelists: 

  1. Brandi Harless, PreventScripts - Behavioral Health
  2. Ardmore Institute of Health - Nutrition Education
  3. Poverello, HIV/AIDS Food is Medicine -  Body Systems
  4. Patient Centered
  5. Evaluation and Bio-trackers 

Spotlight: What's new in Florida for FIM?

2: 30 pm - 3:30 pm

Bleeding Edge science using AI, national funding and research underway in the field of Clinical Care to Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida /IFAS 

15 Minute Break

3:30 pm  -3:45 pm Networking Break

Panel: Taking FIM on the Road & Mobile Truck Rally

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Tour a Mobile Farmer market, Mobile Teaching Kitchen, Veggie Vans, and Pleasantville Mobile Produce Prescriptions Clinic Bus  


3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Co-Hosts Pastor Gerard Duncan + Nichole Dube lead vibrant discussion on what it takes to move farmers markets and produce prescriptions into the community where they are at. 

Panel: Where to get your FIM Food Sourcing?

4:15 pm - 4:55 pm

Panel led by Erin Martin, FreshRx OK, with a dynamic & lively panel discussion packed with your INNOVATIVE food solutions for FIM program providers, big wins, and exciting new turns up ahead.

Panelists: 

 

Closing Remarks

4:55 pm

Florida House Representative Debra Tendrich, also Co-Founder of the Florida Health & Nutrition Coalition gives the closing remarks and lays out what's ahead for Food is Medicine in the Florida Legislature. 

4 Roots Farm to Table, Tours & Warm Conversations

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Tour the Farm, Refreshing Mocktails  in the Grove


Follow the Trail Home: Soil to Health 

Learn about Regenerating America's health from her soil up. Meet the farmers, ranchers, FIM leaders paving the way.


Farm to Table : A family-style supper, paid per person at the Farm, for the warm conversations and heart connections made nowhere else like family around the table (Host: Brie Cox, FIM Afficionado from Kentucky)

Missing the Event? Catch the Live Broadcast of the FL Food is Medicine Symp

Here is the link to register for the zoom as Virtual Tickets below 

Thank you to Our Partners, Hosts, Speakers & Sponsors

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