Tickets on sale for Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival

Join us on Saturday, September 13, 2008, 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at University Heights Center for Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival.

We will begin at 12:00 p.m. with a mini-conference, then at 5:00 p.m. we will enjoy a local foods dinner outside in the plaza area, weather permitting. Tickets are available for purchase online NOW!

Purchase tickets now! at Brown Paper Tickets

Please tell your friends, family, and colleagues about this exciting opportunity!

For the first time, Eat Local Now! brings us a skill-building, knowledge sharing event on the food cycle: from gardening to planting, growing, harvesting, cooking, composting, processing, transportation, and local food economy.

Admission The afternoon mini-conference will request a suggested donation at the door of $15 to cover the rental of the space; the dinner will involve paid tickets on a sliding scale between $25-$30. A limited number of reduced price low-income/student tickets are available upon request at info@balleseattle.org. This will be a unique “hands-on festival” with learning opportunities about local food and the local food system. Come learn how to weave local foods more into the fabric of your life, whether it is a new concept to you or you have been doing it for years. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. A very limited number of parking spaces are available in the North and West lots. Please walk, bike, bus, or carpool if possible.

Please contact info@balleseattle.org if you have questions or are interested in helping organize, sharing your knowledge, partnering, or volunteering. Eat Local Now! A Hands-On Festival is presented by Sustainable Cascadia, BALLE Seattle, and Rolling Fire pizza.

Purchase tickets now! at Brown Paper Tickets

We will add more information as it becomes available on the Eat Local Now! website at http://www.eatlocalnow.org.

For more information about the host organizations visit … Sustainable Cascadia at Sustainable Cascadia
BALLE Seattle at BALLE

Tatiana Cattand, Staff Volunteer, BALLE Seattle.

THANK YOU!

Dr. David Suzuki
In his talk at the Cascadia Convergence Kick-off on Friday, October 26, 2007 he gave one unforgettable illustration of what exponential growth means - one key understanding about the urgency of humanity's current problems. He used the idea of a bacterium doubling once a second in a test tube of food material. Suppose a quarter of the food material was used up at 58 seconds, and the bacteria are happy thinking they still have 75% of their resources. How long before all the food in the test tube (read planet) is used up?

Then the smart bacteria scientists come up with a way to produce 3 whole new worlds of food. How many more seconds does it take to use up those 3 new worlds?

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO ATTENDED, IT WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS.

Many seeds were planted, many ideas germinated and many relationships formed over the those 24 hours and the energy continues to grow. This is good, there is hope in our own exponential growth!

Now please get involved to nurture and augment the weaving!

E-mail inquiries@sustainablecascadia.org or contact anyone involved.