Past Stinner Summits (scroll down to our previous post or click here) have supported, for example, projects aimed at getting more local foods into schools, eliminating child hunger in Youngstown, creating regional value-added food-processing hubs and establishing urban soil-production sites by diverting local food waste into composting. Read the list here (scroll down to the links). The late Ben Stinner was the first coordinator of CFAES’s Agroecosystems Management Program, which is the host of the summits, and was a leader of our college’s first steps toward sustainable agriculture. As has been said by many more eloquently than this: What a great person. Mentor. Downright human being.