Food & Community: Come to Eat, Come to Listen, Come to Share!

Alden Library's last Earth Month 2010 event will be BIG so don't miss it!  Ronda Clark, executive director of Community Food Initiatives will join us to talk about CFI's work with food security in Appalachia including:

• gardening programs
• workshops
• seed saving & composting
• food donations

Our session will be accompanied by fresh local refreshments, so come join us around the table!

Wednesday April 28th   
12-1 pm
Alden Library 319  

Image:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinkrejci/ / CC BY 2.0

Heart & Soil Film Screening Next Wednesday w/ Guest Art Trese

The film Heart & Soil, a documentary on sustainable agriculture, will be shown at Alden Library's next Earth Month event.  Please join us!
Wed. April 21
12 - 1 pm
Alden Library Rm 319

We are also very much looking forward to our guest for the session, Prof of Plant Biology Art Trese, who will lead a discussion about his work with community gardening & sustainable agriculture. Here's a video of Prof Trese and OU students at work in the gardens:

Worm Circus Roundup

A big Thank You to all who made our worm composting workshop on Wednesday a great success -- Thanks to all who helped with the planning, the publicity and the setting up. And Thanks to Will Dewees, our worm expert extraordinaire. Most of all, Thank You to all who attended -- we had our largest audience yet with nearly 40 people!

Will showed the audience that worms need the following to stay healthy and transform food waste into compost:

air  ~~  moisture (but not too much!)  ~~  darkness  ~~  food scraps (no protein)

Read more about the worm composting tips Will presented in today's Post article

Will at the Athens Farmer's Market


Worm composting book recommended by Will:

Appelhof, M. (1982). Worms eat my garbage (1st ed.). Kalamazoo, Mich., USA: Flower Press.

Photos by Sherry DiBari