Despite the 2016 elections, over 250 people attended the "2016 Feast on This! Film Festival". Each critically acclaimed film had its own topic, screened in an appropriate venue (to the topic), and local experts on hand afterward to brainstorm solutions to our community’s food security issues. 

At our Spring Forum, we deepened the dialogue and working relationships between the social services sector and the local food movement, identified barriers to purchasing healthy local food, and highlighted work that is already increasing the availability of locally grown food for individuals and institutions.

MFCC resurrected the Feast on This! Film Festival after a four-year hiatus because of its  potential to inform, spark conversation and action that support a robust, local food system in the Monadnock Region. Over 365 festival goers attended 7 films over 7 days, at venues throughout the region. The films selected educated our community about the diverse issues affecting our national, regional and local food and agricultural systems. 

One of MFCC's primary purposes is to provide the time and space for our 37 member organization constituency to network, engage in each other's work, promote and cross-pollinate information, share resources and tools, and form collaborations so that, collectively, we can continue to implement the changes needed to build a Monadnock Region sustainable local food system.

Our final 2013 forum, a screening of “A Place At The Table” at The Colonial Theatre, downtown Keene, played before a packed theater and served as the backdrop to a post-film panel discussion, moderated by N. H. Sen. Molly M. Kelly, D-Keene.   Panelists included: Phoebe Bray, Executive Director of The Keene Community Kitchen, Kin Schilling, Founder of The Cornucopia Project,  Donna Reynolds, ConVal Food Service Director,  and  Olivia Zink, activist and member of the NH Citizens Alliance. 

"Educating on the Importance of Eating Healthy, Locally-Produced Food" forum was held at Heberton Hall on September 25th, 2013 and was attended by nearly 100 citizens, representing the education and health fields as well as farming, business, and both local and state government.