Upcoming Events
The Art of Fermentation
Sandor Katz
Author of "Wild Fermentation"
4-1 and 4-2-2102
(poster)
Celebrating the upcoming June release of Sandor Ellix Katz's new book "The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around the World", the widely traveled educator and fermenter extraordinaire will visit Ithaca for three special events in Ithaca, NY from April 1 – 2, 2012. All events are free and open to the public:
“Meet the Author” with short discussion
April 1, 1:00 - 2:00pm
Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca, NY
The Art of Fermentation: A demonstration and community conversation on Fermentation as Relocalization
April 1, 5:00 - 8:00pm
The Space at GreenStar, Enter on N. Fulton @ W. Court St., Ithaca, NY
Reception: Greetings & Refreshments
April 2 4:00 - 5:00pm
Cornell University, Plant Science Building (Tower Rd.), Whetzel Room 404
The Art of Fermentation: An Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
April 2, 5:30 – 7:00pm
Cornell University, Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160
Metered parking for Cornell University accessible at Peterson Lot on Tower Road @ Judd Falls Road.
Find Your Ferment! A guide to fermented foods in Ithaca: http://cayugastkitchenferment.blogspot.com/
Please circulate the Facebook invitation to your friends.
For more information, please visit www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg/events.html
Co-sponsored by:
New World Agroecology Group at Cornell (NWAEG), Albert R. Mann Library, Food Agriculture and Nutrition Group (FANG), Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Society for Horticulture Graduate Students (SoHo), GreenStar Community Projects, Buffalo Street Books, Cornell Food Science Club, Cornell Gourmet Club, EcoVillage at Ithaca, Finger Lakes Permaculture Network, Fingerlakes Permaculture Institute, Ithaca Freeskool, IthacCan, Fingerlakes Bioneers, Cayuga St. Kitchen, and Kurt's Cuisine
These events are free and open to the public and are funded in part by the GPSAFC.
Past Events
Ecovillages as Capuses for Sustainability Education
Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D.
Founder and Director of Living Routes
11-15-12 (video)
Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D. is Founder and Director of Living Routes, which partners with UMass Amherst to offer study abroad programs based in "ecovillages" around the world. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Minnesota, Daniel is now focused on building bridges between academia and sustainable communities. He has taught Sustainable Living at UMass Amherst, co-founded the Green Passport, and chaired Task Forces for NAFSA and The Forum on Education Abroad.
Ecovillages are communities striving to live well and lightly together. From appropriate technologies to holistic health; from sustainable agriculture to group facilitation, ecovillages are integrating solutions within human-scale communities and creating new cultures and "stories" in which we can live well - and lightly. While not utopias, they are developing real-world models of sustainable development that make ideal "campuses" where students can learn about sustainability while striving to live it.
This talk will provide an introduction to the growing ecovillage movement worldwide (e.g., Findhorn, Scotland; Auroville, India; Sirius, MA), the possibilities and challenges of using these communities as contexts for education and social change, and the work of Living Routes, an educational non-profit which partners with UMass-Amherst to offer study abroad programs based in ecovillages worldwide.
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Greenhorns Film Free Screening, Discussion, and Community Conversation 11-17-11 (video, poster)
Panel discussion on supporting beginning farmers
Violet Stone, Program Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Small Farm Program. In addition, Ms Stone co-teaches the “Exploring the Small Farm Dream” course offered at Cornell University and is currently working on a project to improve farm energy use. You can also find her at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market selling her cut flowers http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/
Dan Flerlage, Localvores Committee Coordinator at Lehman Alternative Community School and staff at the Ithaca Youth Farm Project. Mr. Flerlage will also be featuring some of the youth who have been active in the Youth Farm Project http://youthfarmproject.weebly.com/about.html
Devon Van Noble, Incubator Development Coordinator at the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming. He is leading the effort to develop Groundswell’s Farm Enterprise Incubator, which aims to offer low-risk farming and business training for people with limited access to land and other resources.
http://www.groundswellcenter.org/
Melissa Madden and Garret Miller, Young and beginning farmers from the Good Life Farm in Interlaken, NY. In addition to operating their own Permculture-based farm, both Melissa and Garret have participated as farm-educators and mentors in Groundswell’s New Farmer Training Program and the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training. http://thegoodlifefarm.org/
This event is hosted by:
The New World Agriculture and Ecology Group at Cornell
The Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming
and the Albert R. Mann Library of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Co-sponsors:
Dilmun Hill Student Farm
The Cornell Gourmet Club
Cornell Orchards
Department of Development Sociology
Department of City and Regional Planning
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Free screening of "Urban Roots" 10-20-2011
The DVD of "Urban Roots" is now available at Mann Library for Cornell faculty, staff and students with a library card and to all NY State residents who have applied for a Mann Library privelage card. Share it with friends and family, this is an amazingly inspirational film!
Urban Roots Trailer from Tree Media on Vimeo.
"Urban Roots follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit and is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future."
Co-sponsored by Mann Library and NWAEG at Cornell
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Malik Yakini "Undoing Racism in the Food System" 10-24-2011 (video)
Malik Kenyatta Yakini is a founder and the Interim Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates a four acre farm in Detroit and spearheaded efforts to establish the Detroit Food Policy Council, which he chairs. He is an activist and educator dedicated to working to identify and alleviate the impact of racism and white privilege in the food system. Yakini has an intense interest in contributing to the development of an international food sovereignty movement that embraces Black farmers in the Americas, the Caribbean and Africa. He views the “good food revolution” as part of the larger movement for freedom, justice and equality. He currently serves as a Food and Community Fellow of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Co-sponsored by:
Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming, New World Agriculture and Ecology Group at Cornell, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell Department of Development Sociology, Dorothy Cotton Institute, Gardens 4 Humanity, Whole Community Project, Cornell Garden-Based Learning Program, Moosewood Restaurant. Videography by Insights International www.electronranch.com.
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Moving Planet 350.org rally and flash mob 9-29-2011
Event organized by KyotoNOW! and Students for Natural Resource Conservation. NWAEG @ Cornell's president Sam Bosco attended and was interviewed by the Cornell Daily Sun.
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Farmageddon party at The Oeschner Farm Summer 2011
Check out The McGuillicuddies playing a cover of War's "Lowrider".
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Gardens 4 Humanity First Annual All-City Garden Work Day 2011 (photos)
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Urban Harvest events April 2010
Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Urban Agriculture and Food Justice (video, notes)
Workshop: Youth in Urban Agriculture and Community-led Economic Development (video 1, video 2, notes, photos)
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Daniel Winkler "Cordyceps, Matsutake and Other Treasures of Tibet: A Mushrooming Market' 2010 (poster)
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Panel discussion and film screening "A Farm for the Future" as part of Mann Library's Local Food and Fiber Fair 2010 (video)
Panelists:
John Bosak - TC Local (website)
Laurie Drinkwater - Department of Horticulture (website)
Maryrose Livingston and Don Hewes - Northland Sheep Dairy (website)
Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller - The Good Life Farm (website)
Moderator: Jennifer Garndner - NWAEG at Cornell (website)
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3rd National Conference on Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture Education
Sustainable Agriculture Education Association
July 15-17, 2009
Iowa State University
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Miguel Altieri "Agroecology: Confronting the Advance of Industrial Agriculture and Climate Change from the Campesino Trenches" 2009
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World Food Crisis Solutions: Get Involved Locally and Globally! 2009
(poster, schedule, media, audio slide show of panel discussion, photos, round table discussion reports (local, national & international) ...a companion community event for:
Visible Warnings: the World Food Crisis in Perspective
World Food Crisis Conference hosted by Development Sociology, (poster, media)
Panelists:
Karl North - Northland Sheep Dairy (website)
Megan Gregory - Bread for the World (website)
Jemila Sequeira and Marie Hall - Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension, Whole Community Project (website)
Ohnmar Khiang - UN World Food Programme, Burma (website)
Eric Holt-Giménez - Food First! (website)
Moderator: Jennifer Gardner - NWAEG at Cornell (website)
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Letter to the Ithaca Journal "Climate Justice is Possible" 2009 (letter)
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NWAEG at Cornell Spring 2008 potluck (photos, slide show)
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Work Party at SHARE Farm 2008 (photos, website)
SHARE stands for Strengthening Haudenosaunee-American Relations through Education and is a project of the Cayuga Nation.
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Testimony to the NYS Council on Food Policy 2008 (testimony)
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NWAEG at Cornell Winter potluck at Watermargin Co-op 2008
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Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture Education National Conference 2007 (website, media)
NWAEG at Cornell joined the steering committee and hosted this conference on campus where the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association was officially launched.
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Joel Salatin "In-sourcing our food: Scaling Production and Distribution for Local Viability" 2007 (photos, video, media 1, media 2)
What happens when Ithaca and Cornell’s local food movement meets self-proclaimed ''Christian libertarian environmental capitalist” farmer Joel Salatin? Find out on January 25th at 4:00 PM in Room 233 Plant Science Building on the Cornell Campus when Cornell’s New World Agriculture and Ecology Group welcomes Salatin for a public presentation. The talk will be followed by an informal reception.
Salatin, author of several books and featured farmer in Michael Pollan’s most recent book, The Omnivore's Dilemma is one of America's premier and innovative farmers. He raises grass-fed livestock using farming methods that mimic nature, such as avoiding chemical fertilizer and imported seed. Salatin’s Polyface Farm, whose mission is "To develop agricultural prototypes that are environmentally, economically and emotionally enhancing and facilitate their duplication throughout the world," attracts admiring visitors from distant corners of the globe. Joel has pioneered models for raising and processing cattle, pork, and rabbits and has inspired numerous family farmers to adopt his techniques.
Salatin is one of the natural-food movement's most prolific authors, having written numerous articles such as “Everything I do is Illegal” and “High Priest of the Pasture”(New York Times, 2005). Five popular how-to books have titles like ''Family Friendly Farming''; and his latest, ''Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food'' (Polyface, 2004). His services as a motivational speaker and educator are in high demand around the world.
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Free Trade and the Rural Crisis in Latin America, Panel discussion 2007 (photos, audio slideshow)
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Issues in Sustainable Agriculture Education Seminar Series 2006 (schedule)
Student Sustainability Initiatives at Cornell
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Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm: Past, Present and Future
(video, sound quality improves 2 minutes in)
Sustainable Agriculture Education at The Evergreen State College
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Minnesota Institute of Sustainable Agriculture
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NWAEG at Cornell winter potluck 2006 (photos)
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Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture: A Participatory National Conference on Post-Secondary Education Pacific Grove, CA 2006 (photos, website)
Members of NWAEG at Cornell attended the first annual conference on sustainable agriculture education hosted by UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz with funding from Cornell's Polson Institute.
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Sustainable Agriculture Education working group campus meeting 2005 (document)
NWAEG at Cornell convened a group of faculty, students and staff and facilitated a dialogue about teaching sustainable agriculture.
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Empowering Local Communities Through Agriculture: Traditional Perspectives from Chiapas to Central NY - Panel discussion 2005
(photos)
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NWAEG International Meeting 2005 (photos)
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Eric Schlosser 2005 (photos)