- Title: The Best Ideas From 30 Years In The Local, Organic Food Movement
- Who: Rosalind Creasy, Author and Landscape Designer.
- What: Rosalind shares her global perspective on conservation, lifestyles, sustainable landscaping and, of course, great food from the garden.
- When: Sunday, March 28, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
- Where: Morton Arboretum, Thornhill Education Center, Lisle IL
Long before you saw red chard in containers, Rosalind Creasy was researching and writing her first book, Edible Landscaping. Rosalind shares her global perspective on conservation, lifestyles, sustainable landscaping and, of course, great food from the garden.
Rosalind Creasy began her career in horticulture in the 1970s as a landscape designer and restaurant consultant. By 1982 she had published her first book, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, which was hailed by The Wall Street Journal as the best garden book of 1982. In this classic work, the term “Edible Landscaping,” was coined and is now a part of American vocabulary. Rosalind will release an updated version of Edible Landscapes in late Spring 2010.
$35 Member/$44 Non-Member
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Also, after the lecture, stay to join Rosalind for a dinner of locally grown organic food in the Ginkgo Restaurant.
Come shop for your Thanksgiving dinner ingredients, pick up pre-ordered grass fed turkeys from Caveny Farms and crafts that make great Christmas gifts. There will be locally grown, organic food and craft vendors.
Enjoy a locavore brunch before or after you shop!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Hosted by Inglenook Pantry
11 N 5th Street
Geneva, IL 60134
Thanksgiving Market: 9:00 a.m. thru 3:00 p.m. Localvore Brunch served 9:30 am to 2:00 pm.
Note: We are also still looking for craft vendors. If you would like to participate in this market contact Karen at (630) 208-9321.
According to The Boston Globe, people spend on average 13 percent of their income on food. In order to compensate for rising gas prices, people are aggressively looking for ways they can save money. Cutting back on the amount they spend on food is usually at the top of the list, especially since food prices have been increasing dramatically. Organic food can be costly, and it seems easy to justify buying cheap, factory-farm produced meat and produce. However, the truth is we cannot afford to continue buying from factory-farms long term.
Among the many hidden costs of food, subsidies rank the highest in terms of actual dollar amounts. The government offers big business farmers subsidies to keep food costs below the cost of food production so America can stay competitive on the international market. When we buy cheap food we have already paid for part of the food in taxes, or else that food came from a country with unfair labor practices. If we revert back to eating locally we would not need to pay taxes for farming subsidies. For more information on this visit www.truecostoffood.org.
Farm subsidies are an international problem. The government just pasted a bill that will spend over $180 billion dollars over the next ten years, which will be given to big business farms. Much of this food will be shipped overseas, which will drive down food costs and put small farmers out of business. So not only are we buying sub-par food for ourselves with taxes, we are buying sub-par food for other people with the subsidies. And this is not charitable giving, because it is highly destructive to the local economy in other countries and provides people with less nutritious food. Supporting local, organic farms is the best for everyone’s economy long term. For more information on this visit www.commondreams.org or Google “farm subsidies.”
