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Who: Terra Brockman, Author
What: Booksigning of “The Season on Henry’s Farm” by Terra Brockman
When: Sun, November 15, 1pm – 3pm
Where: Fox Valley Winery, 5600 U.S. Rte 34 in Oswego, IL
Terra Brockman was raised in central Illinois, where four generations of her family have farmed. Terra’s younger brother, Henry, grows 650 varieties of vegetables on about 12 acres between Peoria and Bloomington. There, he and his family and apprentices have bucked the traditional agribusiness conventional wisdom by farming in a way that’s sensible, sustainable and focused on producing healthy, nutritious food that doesn’t damage the land.
Terra Brockman tells the story of her family and their life on the farm in the form of a year-long memoir that takes the reader through each season of life on the farm.
For more information about Terra Brockman or her book, please visit her website at www.terrabrockman.com
The Natural Garden offers a butterfly gardening class.
Who is that in my garden? How can I attract more?! Some butterflies, like the Monarch, are so easily recognized. But who else is visiting your flowers? We’ll talk a bit about identifying other common butterflies and how you can attract more to your garden. If weather permits, we will have some live butterflies to help us in our learning.
Enrollment Deadline: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Class Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm – 2: 00 pm
Location: The Natural Garden
Fee: free
Instructor: Janie Grillo
The Natural Garden offers gardening classes.
Native and ornamental grasses are well suited to the needs of an environmentally concerned world. Learn why it’s important to plant grasses early, and how to create and maintain sustainable landscapes with the “hair of the earth”.
Enrollment Deadline: Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 am – 10: 00 am
Location: The Natural Garden
Fee: free
Instructor: Pat Hollingsworth
What:
A Festival of Information & Ideas for Sustainable Living, Building a Sustainable Community
When:
Saturday, October 4, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Elgin (three miles west of Randall on Highland Ave)
39W830 Highland Avenue
Elgin, IL 60124
The fifth annual Prairie Fest held is a one day celebration of sustainable living. Workshops, presentations, exhibits, and interactions are free to the community. This Prairie Fest Community Conference promises to give attendees valuable and practical information on living a low impact sustainable lifestyle. It features professionals, practitioners, authors, and civic official who give attendees the opportunity to explore the many practical ways that we can live more sustainably. Green City is the central theme of this year’s Prairie Fest. The name points to the larger challenges of creating a “Green City” in which we all live and thrive sustainably.
Fest with positive steps to take and resources to help them learn to live
more sustainably. There can be no sustainable community without all of us learning to live sustainably.
Thom Thomas, Presenter – 9 to 11
Moderated by Elgin City Council Member Dave Kaptain, panelists include:
Elgin Mayor Ed Schock, City Planner Tom Armstrong, Green Architect Keelan Kaiser, Read more
