EcoGastronomy Summer Program visits Yellow House FarmEVENTS
SPRING
NH FARMS & FORESTS: OPENING DOORS TO OUR FUTURE
February 3 & 4, 2012
2012 NH FARM & FOREST EXPO
Radisson Hotel/Center of New Hampshire, 700 Elm Street, Manchester, NH
Women in Agriculture Conference
Feb. 3, 12 PM – 5 PM: 2012 NH Women in Agriculture conference at the Farm and Forest Expo in Manchester, with a focus on empowering women in agri-business today. Registration fee: $5 at the door, $10 by Jan. 16. Pre-registered participants will receive a free ticket to the Expo trade show. Contact (603) 271-3788 or gail.mcwilliam.jellie@agr.nh.gov for more information. The Women in Agriculture Conference supported by funding from the USDA Risk Management Agency
The Good Food Jobs Fair (Meet. Network. Grow Your Career.) The Food & Finance High School; 525 W.50th Street, NYC Friday 24 February 2012 5:30 - 7:00 PM
This event will be a physical manifestation of the Good Food Jobs website: a place where we connect people looking for meaningful food work with 40 businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect.
This event will run in conjunction with the Just Food Conference 2012: Eat · Work · Grow · the Movement, Friday and Saturday, February 24 & 25
The Sixth Annual New Hampshire Grazing Conference: "Restoring Grazing Land"
February 25, 2012 Holiday Inn on Main Street, Concord, NH
NOFA-NH's 10th Annual Winter Conference Growing Food, Farms and Communities Organically
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012, Sanborn Regional High School, 17 Danville Road, Kingston, NH Keynote Speaker: Frances Moore Lappe', author of Diet for a Small Planet and founder of the Small Planet Institute
MOFGA's Spring Growth Conference: The Tomato.
Saturday, March, 10 - 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center in Unity.
"Sustainability Unbound": 2011-2012 Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series
Join an international group of humanists to discuss the big idea of sustainability — and what the humanities have got to do with it.All lectures will be held in the Huddleston Ballroom. Lectures are free and open to the public.
March 21, 2012
Melissa Lane, Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University
12:10 PM, Huddleston Ballroom,
The nature of the virtues and the reconceptualization of the common good in light of sustainability, and build on a new interdisciplinary project on communicating scientific uncertainty in connection with sustainability in which she is involved at Princeton.
Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College and Faculty Associate, Berkman Center, Harvard University
7:00 PM, Huddleston Ballroom, Hyde is the author the acclaimed books, "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property" and "Trickster Makes This World." His latest book, "Common as Air," is a defense of our "cultural commons."
March 22, 2012
Jeff Titon, Professor of Music, Brown University, enthomusicologist, 12:40 PM, Huddleston Ballroom, He is an enthomusicologist. He is the author of the blog, "Sustainable Music: A Research Blog on the Subject of Sustainability and Music."
Enrique Leff, Mexican philosopher, economist, and environmentalist, 4:00 PM, Huddleston Ballroom, He is the author of "Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality."
Carol Mansour, Lebanese/Palestinian filmmaker, 6:00 PM, Huddleston Ballroom She is the director of numerous documentary films, including "Voices from Yemen" (2009) and "A summer not to forget" (2006).
The Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer the University community and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. The University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities sponsors the programs.
New Hampshire Maple Weekend
March 24 - 25, 2012 Over 60 sugar houses across the state will participate in this open house weekend. Visit a sugar house near you and learn how maple syrup is made and the modern methods used to carry on this ancient tradition. Enjoy free samples, horse- drawn rides, sugar on snow, pancake breakfasts and more!
April 4, 2012 6-9pm Are you concerned about the rising cost of food? Unsure what the term “certified organic” means? Interested in learning how to grow your own vegetables in a sustainable manner? Wells, ME- Wells-Ogunquit Adult Community Education, 207-646-4565, Instructors: Marilyn & Rick Stanley Each year MOFGA sponsors this statewide educational event at over 30 different locations in Maine. Classes run from 6 to 9 p.m. The workshops are open to the public and to people of all gardening skill and experience levels. They are designed to provide folks with essential skills and knowledge needed to make a transition from conventional to organic gardening. The workshop is offered in partnership with Maine's Adult & Community Education program and community sponsors.
Maine Garden Day, Workshops, Educational Displays, and Trade Show
Saturday, April 14, 2012, Lewiston High School, 156 East Avenue, Lewiston, Maine
Whittemore School of Business and Economics Undergraduate Research Conference. MUB various rooms. http://www.unh.edu/urc/events.html#wsbe
Wednesday, April 25. EcoGastronomy’s graduates, review their Capstone Research Projects presented at the Spring Undergraduate Research Conference (URC).
Interview a parent or grandparent
Ask about their memories of food from childhood. Record it if you can.
Visit a Farmers’ Market
Wentworth Greenhouses
141 Rollins Rd, Rollinsford, NH
1 mile past Red’s Shoe Barn of Dover
Hosted in collaboration with
Wentworth Greenhouses
Exeter High School
315 Epping Road, Exeter, NH
Route 101 to exit 9, follow route 27 west 1.8 miles.
2012
January 14 – Exeter High School
January 28 – Wentworth Greenhouses
February 11 – Exeter High School
February 25 – Wentworth Greenhouses
March 10 – Wentworth Greenhouses
March 24 – Wentworth Greenhouses
April 14 – Exeter High School
April 28 – Exeter High School
Volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry
Please contact the site you plan to volunteer at prior to the day you plan to work for details about the time commitment and location.
New Horizons for New Hampshire, 199 Manchester Street, Manchester, NH 03103
Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, 42 Chestnut Street, Nashua, NH 03061-3116
Feel free to identify other food pantries of soup kitchens, just notify the instructor of the the name and location prior to your volunteer work.
Visit the gardens at Strawbery Banke
Organic Garden Club: tour and volunteer
Attend a meeting or event Slow Food UNH
Attend a Seacoast Slow Food event.
Maine Adult Education, Italian Search Italian to find out where beginning Italian classes are being taught.
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