Shop local and organic for your Thanksgiving holiday.

Visit @KCFoodCircle Featured Organic Farmers Markets in the winter - @BadseedKC Fridays at 19th and McGee /and/ @BrooksideFarmersMarket on Nov 15 at 63rd and Wornall. #eatlocalkc #local #organic #thanksgiving #winter #squash #wintersquash

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ORGANIC v. MONSANTO ( July 2011 - excerpt from the UTNE READER)

http://www.utne.com/Environment/Agriculture-Organic-Farmers-Lawsuit-Monsanto.aspx

Organic v. Monsanto

7/18/2011 5:28:48 PM

by Danielle Magnuson

 

More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit filed March 30. Led by the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the family farmers are fighting for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic—and preemptively protecting themselves from accusations of stealing genetically modified seeds that drift on to their pristine crop fields.

Consumers are powerful. For more than a decade, a cultural shift has seen shoppers renounce the faster-fatter-bigger-cheaper mindset of factory farms, exposéd in the 2008 documentary Food, Inc. From heirloom tomatoes to heritage chickens, we want our food slow, sustainable, and local—healthy for the earth, healthy for animals, and healthy for our bodies...

Read more: http://www.utne.com/Environment/Agriculture-Organic-Farmers-Lawsuit-Monsanto.aspx

11am TODAY - Sustainable World Radio - Interview w/Robyn Francis

What
Sustainable World Radio - Interview w/Robyn Francis

When
Fri May 29 11am – 12pm

Description
Friday, May 29 9-10am (Pacific Standard Time), Sustainable World Radio, Interview with Robyn Francis -Sustainable Aid Permaculture for 2/3 World

Sustainable World Radio, KCSB 91.9 FM
and streaming live on http://www.kcsb.org/
(9a-10a Pacific / 11a-12p Central)
interviews also posted on http://www.sustainableworldradio.com/

Join Jill Cloutier of Sustainable World Radio for an interview with International Permaculture Teacher/Designer Robyn Francis from Australia as she talks about her 25 years of permaculture work around the world and her promoting and teaching of SUSTAINABLE AID -Facilitating Resilient Community Development in Areas of Need - Permaculture for 2/3rds World, Indigenous and Culturally Diverse Communities.

Effective aid is leaving people empowered with the information and skills to solve their own problems - Bill Mollison
Robyn will be join be Margie Bushman and Wesley Roe of Santa Barbara Permaculture Network who have convened with/at Quail Springs Learning Oasis and Permaculture Farm

www.quailspring.org the Upcoming Courses on Sustainable Aid in the USA in Juy/Aug 2009

UPCOMING SUSTAINABLE AID COURSES

Facilitating Resilient Community Development in Areas of Need - Permaculture for 2/3rds World, Indigenous and Culturally Diverse Communities with Robyn Francis
Both Courses USA and Australia 2009

USA: Quails Springs, New Cuyama CA: Part 1: 27-30 July, Part 2: 1-6 Aug, 2009. http://www.quailsprings.org/

Australia: Djanbung Gardens NSW Sep 7-18, 2009. http://www.permaculture.com.au/

Synopsis of Sustainable Aid Course

This course specifically for people working in community development programs with culturally diverse communities around the world. Organized in two complementary parts this course develops awareness and skills for working in areas of need. This intensive course is inspiring, challenging and deeply empowering. Participants will gain vital skills and a toolkit of processes to work effectively in both a first-world context and in overseas development work. Graduates from these courses are undertaking significant work in diverse projects all over the world.
This course was originally developed by Robyn Francis in 1991 and undergoes constant revision in keeping with global changes and their impacts on the world's poorest and most vulnerable peoples.

International permaculture designer Robyn Francis has over 25 years experience throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA, India, Indonesia, Germany, Cuba, and Taiwan, and including projects ranging from outback communities to urban development.

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