Free Lecture

[Guest guest]

Fw: [wffr] John Jeavons in Olympia and Centralia, Feb. 7-8

Food and Our Future: Hope and Solutions through Biointensive Farming

 

Lectures with John Jeavons:

Thursday February 7th 6:30 – 8:30 pm at Traditions Café in downtown

Olympia

Friday February 8th 8:30 – 11:30 am Centralia College Student Center

Building Atrium

Friday February 8th 1:30-3:30 pm at TESC Lecture Hall 3

These are no cost events-any donations will go toward local farm

relief from recent flooding

All of life on Earth…depends on six-inches of topsoil and the fact

that it rains! The soil is a living

organism that must be fed and nurtured to keep it feeding us.

However, this basic understanding has

been lost by most current forms of conventional agriculture. In this

presentation John will share eight essential

aspects of GROW BIOINTENSIVE including: Deep Soil Preparation, Raised

Beds,

Composting, Intensive Planting, Companion Planting, Carbon Farming,

Calorie

Farming, The Use of Open-Pollinated Seeds, and A Whole-System Farming

Method. John will

also provide time for questions and answers concerning northwest

small-scale farming,

long-term sustainable soil fertility, climate and market challenges.

John Jeavons has directed Ecology Action's Mini-Farming program

since 1972. He is the author of

" How to Grow More Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and

Other Crops… " ,the

textbook of the GROW BIOINTENSIVE (GB) Sustainable Mini-Farming

system, as

well as being author, co-author and/or editor of over 30 other

Ecology Action

publications. His major responsibilities include directing field

and library

research and education in GB food raising. He advises biologically-

intensive

projects in Mexico, Kenya, Ecuador, Russia, Uzbekistan and

Afghanistan

as well as all corners of the U.S. Jeavons holds a B.A. in Political

Science

from Yale University. Before coming to Ecology Action in 1971, he

worked as a

systems analyst in business, government and university settings. He

has received the

Boise Peace Quilt, Santa Fe Living Treasure, Giraffe, and Steward of

Sustainable

Agriculture awards for public service.

For more information about this event please contact Tim McLeod at

360.870.5946

For more information about Ecology

Action visit: www.growbiointensive.org

 

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Check the web page at http://www.cascadeharvest.org Check out the

calendar of ag

events at http://csanr.wsu.edu/calendar/index.asp

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Washington Family Farm Resources (WFFR) is a service of the WSU Small

Farms Team.

For more information and a calendar of events, visit

www.smallfarms.wsu.edu