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Promoting Local Food and the Environment
Includes workshops, a retreat experience and performances by local, national and international speakers and performers. Local and organic foods will be served at meals throughout the conference.
Featured Performers/Speakers
Thursday, September 25, 7 p.m.
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Actress Kaiulani Lee will present the one-woman play, A Sense of Wonder, based on the life and works of Rachel Carson.
Fee: $15 advance/$18 at the door
Friday, September 26, 7-8:30 p.m.
Prairiewoods
Helping Heal the Planet One Song at a Time by performer Earth Mama (Joyce Rouse).
Fee: $12 advance/$15 at the door
Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Prairiewoods
Earth Spirit Rising: Food, Community and the Spiritual Journey on a Planet Hungry for the Fullness of Life by Patricia Mische. This daylong workshop explores and celebrates Earth as a living, evolving community.
Fee: $35 includes lunch
The conference includes the following topics and speakers:
- Linn County Food Policy Forum: Chris Taliga
- Film: King Korn
- Establishing and Managing Native Prairie Species: Rob Roman
- Prairiewoods: An Ecological History: Peter Hoehnle
- Food in the Story of the Universe: Lucy Slinger, FSPA
- Sustainable Stormwater Management: Wayne Petersen
- Your Health, Your Body and Iowa’s Agricultural Landscape: Laura Dowd
- Food is Life, Life is Sacred, Food is Sacred: Travis Cox
- Waterways: Water Cycle of Prairie and Woodland Landscapes: Christine Taliga and Peter Hoehnle
- Find Abundance in Growing Food by Fred Meyer
- Local Market Festival featuring a farmers’ market and vendors.
To register, call Prairiewoods at 319-395-6700
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