Local Food - Global Harvest
Cidermaking, Potluck, and Learning
Wednesday, November 9th | 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Olympic Mills Commerce Center - MAIN GATHERING LOBBY
Portland, Oregon
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Connect Local Food
with Small Farmers and Finance
SLOW MONEY | ABUNDANCE FARMING | Sauvie Island Organics (CSA)
Join us for an evening of solidarity and celebration. Experts will discuss how food, farming, technology, and finance connect to you, to a rich global harvest, and your own kitchen table.
6th Annual Muddy Boot Festival - Keynote: Joel Makower
Keynote tickets are $12 in advanced and $15 at the door but we've created a special Green Drinks discount on Brown Paper Tickets so the first 50 people to enter the discount code "gdpdx" can buy discounted tickets for $10 each.
Please join us for the Multnomah County Sustainability Film Series' Portland premier of Food Fight, a fascinating look at the industrial food model and the local food movement that is building. A presentation and discussion of the Multnomah Food Action Plan 15-year roadmap to a healthy, equitable, and prosperous local food system will immediately follow the film. www.multnomahfood.org
Join us for the Junk to Funk Trashion Collective’s 5th year anniversary party “Transformation” on Saturday February 5th 2011. This celebration will be a gallery installation showcase featuring new recycled fashion garments from their top “House of Trashion” designers to provide a fun, new way to experience trashion off the runway - up close and personal. The event will also serve as the re-launch of the Junk to Funk Trashion Collective.
At InFARMation this month there will be a panel discussion regarding The Agricultural Reclamation Act and Eaters. The panel will break down the panelists experiences with this grassroots movement and why it's important, but will also talk about what is happening as a result of the ARA, and why it is so important that Eaters both understand and participate.
Special Portland Debut, see this AMAZING film two months before the rest of the world!
FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the
degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting
our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.
Bringing these scientific concepts to life, cameras follow “reality patients” who have
chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes, and are taught by their doctors to
adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments.
Time: Doors open at 6:30pm, the speakers starts promptly at 7:00. Announcements will follow the speakers and networking will continue until 8:45.
Sponsor: Canvas Dreams is a responsible, sustainable web host powered by 100% locally-generated wind energy. Raffle prize generously donated by Botanica Floral just in time for Valentine's Day!
Location
EcoTrust Building BFJ Conference Center, 2nd Floor
