Sustainable Food and Farming Conference
Growing and Eating Simply in Season
This year was a great success!
LOOK for your regional Food and Farming Gathering in 2009!
March 7-9, 2008
Join in a gathering to inspire and equip those who grow food sustainably and those who support them by buying local, fresh, and wholesome food. Our keynote speaker will be Cathleen Hockman-Wert, Co-author of "Simply in Season."
Cathleen Hockman-Wert is co-author, with Mary Beth Lind, of Mennonite Central Committee's Simply in Season cookbook. After more than a decade in church journalism, including serving as the founding editor of Mennonite Women USA's Timbrel magazine, she is now a writer for the Oregon State University Foundation. For two years her congregation, Corvallis Mennonite Fellowship, has participated in "That's My Farmer," a program connecting churches with local farmers. A self-described "food evangelist," Cathleen is an avid farmer's market shopper, lackluster gardener, and recovering picky eater.
Resource Team:
Luke Gascho, worship leader, has been Executive Director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College for the last ten years. He continues to study concepts of creation care theology and ethics, leadership, and ecological systems--and the intersection of the three. Luke and his wife Becky have three adult children and he enjoys gardening, native landscaping, and woodworking.
Angie Clemens, music leader, lives with her husband, Jim, and two children, Alex and Lena, in Dayton, Virginia. Angie teaches elementary school music. With her husband Angie enjoys singing and making music with family and friends on a variety of instruments including keyboards, strings, woodwinds, and percussion. She is also an enthusiastic supporter of local farmers, especially during canning and freezing time!
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