Where: Batesville Middle School, 210 N. Mulberry Street, Batesville, IN
Cost: $15 per person, $10/ea. additional family member

This seminar is for food growers & producers, hobby farmers, home gardeners, farmers’ market vendors and those interested in a safe, local food supply. The richness, variety and flavor of our communities, food systems, and diets are in jeopardy.  Factory farms, agribusiness control of the food system, and mega-supermarkets have brought us low prices and convenience but have taken away many other essential aspects of our “food lives”, such as a personal relationship with food and with the people who produce it.  They have also diminished our understanding of the basic nature of food and farming.  More and more people are realizing this and are actively working to turn the tide and to preserve a food industry based on family-owned, small-scale businesses.  Local farmers and small entrepreneurs are our best guarantee agains a world of Styrofoam-like, long-shelf-life tomatoes and diets dictated from the corporate boardrooms.

More information

Where: Earlham College: Goddard Auditorium, Carpenter Hall: 801 National Road West · Richmond, Indiana · 47374-4095
Cost: $8/adults, $5/students and seniors
More information:  Lynn Knight, Director of Events Coordination at (765) 983-1373.

Michael Pollan looks at how health problems such as obesity, food poisoning (including mad cow disease), heart disease and many others are connected to the way we grow our food. We also discover that agricultural policy has enormous implications for our health, and that current USDA policies are actively promoting the same epidemic of obesity that other branches of the government are urging us to confront. Pollan is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and a young reader’s version The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat. Pollan is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Telfair and Clyde Caldwell Endowed Lecture Funds.

7:30 PM