Upcoming event: Joel Salatin at the U of R
| November 18, 2008 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Farmer, author (You Can Farm; Everything I Want to Do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front), and alternative agriculture guru Joel Salatin will be swinging down to Regina on 18 November for a public lecture entitled “How to Eat Well AND Save Our Planet” (he’s in the province to take part in the Organic Connections conference in Saskatoon on the 17th). If you haven’t heard of Salatin before, I urge you to check out Michael Pollan’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Part two of the book concentrates on the exciting integrated livestock management techniques that Salatin uses on Polyface Farm. If there was ever someone to make you yearn to raise chickens, it’s this guy:
Joel Salatin is a full-time third generation alternative farmer in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Polyface Farm serves more than 1,000 families, 4 retail outlets and 30 restaurants through ongoing farm sales and metropolitan buying clubs with salad bar beef, pastured poultry, eggmobile eggs, pigaerator pork, forage-based rabbits, pastured turkey and forestry products, all through ‘relationship marketing’. The Farm has been featured on National Geographic, and countless other radio, television and print media. (Organic Connections speaker biographies)
Salatin is an inspirational, funny, and lively speaker who is living proof that there are humane and ecologically sustainable alternatives to the factory livestock farming model. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity to hear him in person! The lecture will be followed by a Q&A and book signing, and there will be door prizes too.
When: Tuesday 18 November, 7:30pm
Where: Education Auditorium, 3737 Wascana Parkway, University of Regina, Regina. Free parking available in Lot 15M. (Google map)
Cost: $10 (available starting 28 October at the U of R Bookstore, Book and Brier Patch, Cafe Orange, Eat Healthy Foods, and Willow on Wascana–any remaining tickets will be sold at the door on the night).
For more information: Facebook event page; Daryl Hepting (daryl.hepting@uregina.ca)
October 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
I went to see Joel Salatin speak a couple of months ago and highly, highly recommend going to this! I developed an immediate obsession with integrated pasture-fed livestock systems.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I’m going to the Organic Connections conference on 17 November, and he’s going to be there. His keynote is “Everything I Want to Do is Illegal” and he’s doing a smaller session on ‘You Can Farm’ and another on poultry/hog production. If I wasn’t already going to that, I’d definitely go down to Regina to see him. Looking forward to it!