Virtual Lecture Series-Urban Gardening: A food revolution
In the Bend Urban Farm is excited to announce our first annual Virtual Lecture Series. This series will kick off on Thursday, December 1 at 7:00 pm, at the St. Joseph Public Library-Virginia Tutt branch.
Join us as we hear from two nationally known urban farming professionals, via TED talks. Stay after for a discussion about urban gardening and farming. This is a great opportunity to hear from local experts in urban gardening and network with other like-minded community members. This event is free to the public and a reception will follow.
Our first Virtual Lecture Series will feature TED talks by:
Roger Doiron
photo courtesy of Roger Doiron-Facebook
Roger Doiron is the founder of Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), now known as Seed Money, a non-profit that seeks to help organizations raise money to create community urban garden projects. KGI and Doiron led the “Eat the View” movement in 2008 that encouraged the White House to return part of the lawn to a garden. The campaign was successful with staff and First Lady Michelle O’Bama breaking ground in 2009.
Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. He is also a writer, photographer, and public speaker.
Jesse DuBois
photo courtesy of Jesse DuBois-Twitter
Jesse DuBois is an urban agriculturist. He moved to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter, but instead got caught up in reshaping the food system. He is the Co-Founder and currently serves as the Chief Eclectic Officer for two start-ups: Farmscape, an urban farming maintenance company, and Agrisaurus, a web-based polyculture gardening assistant. Horticulturally, he is a big fan of the nightshade family.
Local experts include:
photo courtesy of IUSB
Dr. Edwin Joseph, Ph.D., Director of Sustainability Studies, IUSB. He is an expert in Geographic Information Systems and uses that expertise to think critically about places with application to improving sustainability outcomes. Dr. Joseph completed his Ph.D., at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He formally taught at Eastern Michigan University and Grand Valley State University. Dr. Joseph has extensive urban agriculture experience and has worked on projects across the world.
photo courtesy of Unity Gardens
Hannah Scrafford, Team Leader at Unity Gardens– a pick-for free, non-profit community garden here in South Bend.
Ms. Scrafford has a degree from Cornell in Global Agriculture, and a minor in soil. She has a certificate in Permaculture, and is a Master Naturalist.
Please join us for a lively discussion of urban gardening issues here in our community, and across the nation.
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