As a customer and consumer, you vote with
your fork every time you stand in line at the check out counter, or visit a farmers' market, or pick up a burger at a fast
food joint. Join us for dinner and a "healthy" discussion about how our food and what we eat affects the social,
environmental and academic aspects of our culture.
January 23, 2012
Inventing a "Win-Win-Win-Win-Win Future."
Speaker: Gary Hirshberg February 13, 2012
Your Role in the Growing Organic Community:
What You Should Know About Good Food and Its Opposite:
Genetically Modified Food
Speaker: Jim Gerritsen
March 15, 2012
Putting the "Culture" Back Into Agriculture Through Community & Collaboration
Speaker: Pete
Johnson
April Event
Author, The Locavore Way
Speaker:
Amy Cotler May 21, 2012
Good Germs, Bad Germs:
Exploring the Relationship Between
Humans, Bacteria
and Food
Speaker: Ben Hewitt
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Monday, February 13, 2012, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Your Role in the Growing Organic Community: What You Should Know About Good Food and Its Opposite: Genetically Modified Food Guest Speaker: Jim Gerritsen, Farmer, President of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association SOLD OUT!!
Did you know? - About 85 percent of U.S. corn, 91 percent of soybeans are
genetically engineered
- Nearly 70 percent
of processed foods on supermarket shelves contains genetically engineered ingredients
- Genetically engineered foods are required to be labeled in 15 European countries, Japan, Australia,
New Zealand, and many more, but not in the U.S.
Jim Gerritsen was voted
as Utne Reader’s “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing our World.” He will reflect upon his 35-years of farming
and his role as the president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) based in Montrose Colorado which
is spearheading a lawsuit against corporate agriculture giant Monsanto. The lawsuit represents 270,000 family farmers, gardeners,
and consumers who are suing to keep some food crops free of genetic modification. His presentation will focus on what
each person needs to know to protect their health, the environment and small farmers. Jim, along with his wife Megan, has owned and operated Wood Prairie Farm in northern Maine for over thirty-five years. Wood Prairie Farm has been a MOFGA-certified organic farm since 1982. The Gerritsens
are focused on the production of organic early generation Maine Certified Seed Potatoes, seed crops, vegetables and grain.
Their seed potatoes are sold retail through their mail order catalog and web business. Additionally, they sell wholesale to
several national mail order seed houses.
He has served
as President of Organic Seed Alliance in WA, and was on the Certification Committee of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Association for over 20 years. He is now on the MOFGA Ag Services Committee and is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Direct Gardening Association. He has served for many years on the Steering Committee of the local St John Aroostook Resource
Conservation & Development Council. He is co-founder of Slow Food Aroostook and co-founded an Organic Crop Improvement
Association chapter. He has cooperated in several on-farm research trials with scientists from the USDA Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) and the University of Maine, and he is an advisor to the UMO Northern New England Organic Bread Wheat Project.
The Gerritsens farm and reside in the Aroostook County town of Bridgewater with their four
children.
For more information go to:
Price: $70 per person includes three-course, locally
sourced dinner, a glass of wine and the seminar. A portion of the proceeds from
this event will be donated to the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire. www.nofanh.org
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We want to make our
events accessible for everyone. We offer the following financial arrangements:
Students: Volunteer at an event and you attend for free.
Scholarships: Please send us an email telling us why you would like to attend the event and email
it to tracey@foodandhealthforum.com. We will notify you promptly.
Farmers: We will accept food in
exchange for event attendance. If interested, please contact us at: tracey@foodandhealthforum.com
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