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

The Farm to Healthcare event is the Day 2 experience of the Florida Food is Medicine Partnership Series, where you can expect to:
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).
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.
8:00 am
Welcome! Doors open, Registration, Materials & Handouts.
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
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
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
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Welcome by Leadership in Health & Human Services, Office of the Secretary
Speaker to be confirmed.
9:20 am - 10:00 am
Keynote: our best in FIM & Horticulture & Soil sciences
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.
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.
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.
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.
11:30 am -11:45 am Networking Break
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
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.
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.
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.
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: 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:
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
3:30 pm -3:45 pm Networking Break
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.
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:
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.
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)
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