World on Your Plate Food Forum this weekend

Starting today and continuing tomorrow is the fifth annual World on Your Plate Food Forum, held at Daemen College.  The idea of the event, and host organization World On Your Plate Coalition, is to promote the benefits of growing, eating, cultivating and preserving the food that is grown in the Earth’s ground.  If it sounds too much like farming, you’re only partially correct.  It’s about finding a cohesiveness with our agricultural world, knowing about and benefitting from the food we can grow ourselves, and all that goes into making seeds grow into meals.

I received an e-mail from Coalition member Eveline Hartz about the event.  She said this:  ”We promote local, fair trade, justice, sustainability and organic lifestyles.  It is a grassroots organization with the intention of education people around food issues and to promote networking among like-minded folk but from different walks of life.”

The keynote speaker for this year’s forum is Derrick Jensen.  There will also be about 30 workshops, an organic lunch and plenty of food vendors and information tables.  Tonight at 7 p.m. there will be a movie screening of ”King Corn.”

Consider this for your weekend events.  The weather is supposed to be beautiful, even warm, so an hour inside to talk about the food outside won’t be a bad thing.

Posted by on 10/10 at 11:20 AM