Hi all -?
From permaculture guru Claudia Joseph in Brooklyn - check it out...
?Events at the Old Stone House in Washington Park
5th Ave & 4th St, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Subway stop: 9th St & 4th Ave, F or R
Subway stop: 9th St & 4th Ave, F or R
(718)[masked] ?www.theoldstonehouse.org
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Friday April 23, 6pm MOVIES double feature
$5 suggested donation, lively discussion, popcorn and a preview of our seeds.
FOOD,INC.
Drawing on Eric Schlosser's fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, director Robert Kenner's documentary explores the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. ?Kenner spotlights the men and women who are working to reform an industry rife with monopolies, questionable interpretations of laws and subsidies, political ties and rising rates of E. coli outbreaks.
About Food, Inc.American agriculture has in many respects been the envy of the world. U.S. agri-business consistently produces more food on less land and at cheaper cost than the farmers of any other nation. What could possibly be wrong with that? According to the growing ranks of organic farmers, ?slow food? activists and concerned consumers cited in the new documentary?Food, Inc., the answer is ?plenty.? As recounted in this sweeping, shockingly informative documentary, sick animals, environmental degradation, tainted and unhealthy food and obesity, diabetes and other health issues are only the more obvious problems with a highly mechanized and centralized system that touts efficiency ? and the low costs and high profits that result from it ? as the supreme value in food production.
Less obvious, according to?Food, Inc., is the entrenchment of a powerful group of food producers, that sets the conditions under which today?s farmers and food workers operate, in order to maximize profits. The industry also maintains a revolving door of employment for government regulators and legislators to protect its power to set those conditions. Then there is ?the veil,? a strange disconnect ? propagated in good part by millions of dollars poured into marketing and lobbying by the industry ? between the average American and the food he or she eats. As one chicken industry representative puts it, ?In a way we?re not producing chickens; we?re producing food.?
DIRT!
An insightful and timely film that tells the story of the glorious and under-appreciated material beneath our feet. ?Inspired by William Bryant Logan's acclaimed book?Dirt:The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth,?Dirt! The Movie takes a humorous and substantial look into the history and current state ?of living organic matter.
Saturday, April 24 10am -2pm
4th ANNUAL SEED CELEBRATION
Seed planting information and plenty 'o seeds! ?Now is the time to plant. ?Come see our heritage varieties, see seeds growing, check out our new farm garden.
Fun for everyone! ?Seed Lending, Swapping, Raffle, Display and literature! ?Not to mention real gardeners and compost experts!! ? Not to be missed.
heritage seeds
local gardeners
seed swapping
seed library information
raffle
seed displays
seed catalogs
seeds!
local gardeners
seed swapping
seed library information
raffle
seed displays
seed catalogs
seeds!
Seed saving and trading has been a tradition for thousands of years.
Information shared between gardeners is part of the fun.
visit?www.permaculture-exchange.org?for more information about the gardens.