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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] JOEL SALATIN - Wednesday, Jan 21, Shepherdstown, WV (Wasthington DC environs)
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:48:48 -0500

Title: JOEL SALATIN - Wednesday, Jan 21, Shepherdstown, WV (Wasth
Among other things, Joel will discuss the negative impact the Mad Cow scare is having on small, clean beef producers. (Among other things, small processing plants cannot handle the expense of spinal cord testing and are already dropping the processing of healthy, but older 'burger' cattle) Be There! -Allan

"Allan has assembled the country's most dynamic representatives of new truth thinking. You MUST go." -Joel Salatin


Bringing It All Back Home

An Educational Series on Locally Grown Food and Home Town Economics
People around the U.S. are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food. It is fresher than anything in the supermarket and that means it tastes better and is more nutritious. Another plus is that local food is also good for your community economy-buying directly from family farmers helps them stay in business. Why? Because they get to keep more of your food dollar! This means buying locally keeps your dollars circulating within the community rather than leaving town. Come to the Shepherdstown War Memorial Building at 7 P.M. (except as noted) on the third Wednesday of each month to hear stimulating presentations by national leaders in local food and local economics.
All Events are FREE to the public. RSVP requested for food and seating at most events.

 
JOEL SALATIN -Relationship Marketing - Wednesday , January 21, 6:30 PM
Do you know who your farmer is? That's a question you'll start asking yourself after you hear Shenandoah Valley neighbor Joel Salatin speak on the future of food and farming. Joel has been featured in American Heritage and Smithsonian magazines. His presentations about ecological farming on his family's 550-acre Virginia farm have received standing ovations nationwide. Joel is the author of 4 books on quality farming and is considered to be America's best known working farmer. If that's not enough, attendees at this program will receive a meal of Joel's pastured pork sausage and pastured hen eggs! See you there!
SALLY FALLON -Traditional Food and Nutrition - Wednesday February 18, 7:00 PM
Ever wonder why great grandpa could suck all the fat off his steaks, slather his toast with butter and eat eggs by the carton and never worry about his cholesterol? It wasn't just your imagination and Sally Fallon can explain accurately why the good foods of just a few generations ago are harmful to us now. Of course, It doesn't have to be that way. Sally Fallon has changed the face of American farming. She will tell us why truly healthful foods come from local farms and how citizens interested in high quality foods make both themselves and their communities more healthy!
JERRY BRUNETTI -Surviving the American Health System- March 17, 7:00 PM
Ready to ignore your doctor's advice and start taking care of your body and responsibility for your own health? That's what Jerry did about 3 years ago when his doctor told him that he only had 6 months left to live unless he started chemo immediately. Following the naturopathic dictum to maximize nutritional intake and minimize toxic intake, Jerry has outlived his doctor's prediction by years, is more fit and vital than before he contracted cancer and, you guessed it, he owes it all to nutritionally dense, locally grown, vegetable, meat and dairy products. His experiences in healing and his insights into what wellness really is, can help you, regardless of what ails you!

 
MICHAEL SHUMAN -Going Local: The High Values of Local Economies - April 21, 7:00 PM
Ponder this statistic: only 9 cents of a food dollar is returned to the farmer! The rest is lost outside the community to distribution, marketing and inputs. Mr. Shuman says that " a community ought to pursue selfreliance as far as it's cost-effective, because it minimizes its vulnerability to events outside its control, maximizes the local economic multiplier, pumps up the municipal tax base, and imparts greater skills and excitement on behalf of the citizenry. " Mr. Shuman is a periodic commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered." Author of 6 books, his most recent is Going Local.


 
THOMAS LINZEY -Regaining Local Control of Things That Matter - May 19, 7:00 PM

Viewshed and Foodshed are two words that represent quality of life to small communities. More and more Shepherdstown seems to be losing a lot of both to forces outside its control. Thomas Linzey is co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit law firm that provides free and affordable legal services to community groups and local governments. Much of the work of the Legal Defense Fund is focused on the issue of the "corporatization" of agriculture and legal issues surrounding attempts to directly market farm products to consumers.


 
RSVP and find more information on speakers at info AT gardeningforthefuture.com or Allan Balliett @ (304) 876-3382 www.GardeningForTheFuture.com


  • [Market-farming] JOEL SALATIN - Wednesday, Jan 21, Shepherdstown, WV (Wasthington DC environs), Allan Balliett, 01/19/2004

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