November 5 :: 6pm :: Taylor Auditorium
FRESH: movie showing and Local Speakers
Nov 5, 2009, 6:00 PMTaylor Auditorium
"Fresh" is a documentary about real solutions to the current U.S. food industry. Local farmers, brewers, wine makers and chefs will speak about their sustainable practices and answer student questions. Free for all! www.freshthemovie.com.
6:00pm :: FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
Several of FRESH's main characters include urban farmer and activist Will Allen, recipient of MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin, made famous by Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma; and supermarket owner David Ball, who challenges our Wal-Mart dominated economy.
7:30pm :: Come hear Tyler and Alicia from Afton Farms. Tyler Jones was an apprentice under Joel Salatin at Polyface Farm from 2002-2003, and now farms full-time in Corvallis, Oregon with his wife Alicia on their 106-acre Afton Field Farm. They raise pastured poultry (eggs, broilers and turkeys) oak savanna pork and grass-fed beef and lamb using multi-species rotational grazing.
See their recent article in the Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/foodday/index.ssf/2009/09/growing_greener_acres.html
Tyler and local Forest Grove wine makers, bakers and farmers will speak about sustainability practice and philosophies in our local community. Come listen to their reasons behind developing their business and lifestyle after environmentally conscious practices and here stories about local innovative practice.
Featured Speakers:
Tyler and Alicia Jones from Afton Farms from Corvallis, Oregon
Apprentices to Joel Salatin from Omnivore's Dilemma and FRESH the documentary
Patton Valley and Montinore Vineyards from Forest Grove
Dovetail Bakery form Portland, Oregon
Our guest speakers and food will be provided by:
- Anthropology & Sociology Club
- The Civic Engagement Center
- The Pacific University Library
- Pacific Progressive Union
- Students for Environmental Awareness
- Animal Ethics Club
Posted by Terra Neilson (terra.lee@pacificu.edu) on Oct 20, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Edited by Alana Kansaku-Sarmiento (kans2166@pacificu.edu) on Nov 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM
