Food + Farm | April 25-27 | SPACE Gallery, Portland
FOOD + FARM
A series of talks and films examining our access to sustainable food.
April 25-27, 2008 | SPACE Gallery | 538 Congress St, Portland | www.space538.org
Co-presented with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
Friday, April 25, 2008 — King Corn
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
King Corn is about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian and Curt move from Boston to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, their discoveries raise troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. Features interviews with Michael Pollan. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Ian Cheney.
www.kingcorn.net
Saturday, April 26, 2008 — Cultivating Community Kids' Event
10am-Noon, free, suggested ages 8-12
Good (and fun!) things happen when you know where your food comes from. For 8 growing seasons, Cultivating Community has been helping kids and their families get more connected to the land that sustains us—and fighting hunger and environmental degradation in the process. Join us for a morning of hands-on fun with compost, plants and food. Suggested for kids 8-12.
www.cultivatingcommunity.org
Saturday, April 26, 2008 — An Evening With Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $8, $5 for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch are titans in the world of organic gardening. Their books, including Barbara's newly updated Garden Primer and Eliot's The New Organic Grower, are well-thumbed staples of most gardeners' bookshelves. Together they run Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, which produces vegetables year-round, and has become a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture. Tonight offers an intimate evening as the first couple of organic gardening offer their thoughts and reflections on over 40 years in the garden. With an introduction by Russell Libby, Executive Director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
www.fourseasonfarm.com
www.mofga.org
Sunday, April 27, 2008 — Food Source Roundtable
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $6, free for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
Begins with a screening of the short film Fridays at the Farm (19 min), a lovingly-made personal essay by a filmmaker trying to reconnect his family with the source of the food they consume. Followed by a round-robin discussion with local advocates of sustainable food, including Roger Doiron (Kitchen Gardeners International), John Bliss and Stacy Brenner (Broadturn Farm), and David Buchanan, Slow Food Portland organizer and proponent of heirloom crops.
www.coyopa.com/fridays-at-the-farm.html
www.kitchengardeners.org
www.broadturnfarm.com
www.slowfoodportland.org
Sponsored by Aurora Provisions, Eastland Park Hotel, Five Fifty-Five, Grandy Oats, Flatbread Company, Peak Brewing, Vignola, and XPress Copy
SPACE Gallery | 538 Congress St. | Portland, ME 04101, USA | (207) 828-5600 | www.space538.org
A series of talks and films examining our access to sustainable food.
April 25-27, 2008 | SPACE Gallery | 538 Congress St, Portland | www.space538.org
Co-presented with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
Friday, April 25, 2008 — King Corn
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
King Corn is about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian and Curt move from Boston to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, their discoveries raise troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. Features interviews with Michael Pollan. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Ian Cheney.
www.kingcorn.net
Saturday, April 26, 2008 — Cultivating Community Kids' Event
10am-Noon, free, suggested ages 8-12
Good (and fun!) things happen when you know where your food comes from. For 8 growing seasons, Cultivating Community has been helping kids and their families get more connected to the land that sustains us—and fighting hunger and environmental degradation in the process. Join us for a morning of hands-on fun with compost, plants and food. Suggested for kids 8-12.
www.cultivatingcommunity.org
Saturday, April 26, 2008 — An Evening With Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $8, $5 for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch are titans in the world of organic gardening. Their books, including Barbara's newly updated Garden Primer and Eliot's The New Organic Grower, are well-thumbed staples of most gardeners' bookshelves. Together they run Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, which produces vegetables year-round, and has become a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture. Tonight offers an intimate evening as the first couple of organic gardening offer their thoughts and reflections on over 40 years in the garden. With an introduction by Russell Libby, Executive Director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.
www.fourseasonfarm.com
www.mofga.org
Sunday, April 27, 2008 — Food Source Roundtable
Doors open at 7:00pm, starts at 7:30pm, $6, free for SPACE members, All ages
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
Begins with a screening of the short film Fridays at the Farm (19 min), a lovingly-made personal essay by a filmmaker trying to reconnect his family with the source of the food they consume. Followed by a round-robin discussion with local advocates of sustainable food, including Roger Doiron (Kitchen Gardeners International), John Bliss and Stacy Brenner (Broadturn Farm), and David Buchanan, Slow Food Portland organizer and proponent of heirloom crops.
www.coyopa.com/fridays-at-the-farm.html
www.kitchengardeners.org
www.broadturnfarm.com
www.slowfoodportland.org
Sponsored by Aurora Provisions, Eastland Park Hotel, Five Fifty-Five, Grandy Oats, Flatbread Company, Peak Brewing, Vignola, and XPress Copy
SPACE Gallery | 538 Congress St. | Portland, ME 04101, USA | (207) 828-5600 | www.space538.org
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