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Organic Goodies, from Garden to Table
NOFA-NJ (Northeast Organic Farming Association – the New Jersey
Chapter) and the Waldorf School of Princeton team up to offer a
full-day event, “From the Garden to the Table: A Conference
Celebrating Healthy Food,” on Saturday, October 2, at 9 a.m. at the
school’s campus.
The conference features sessions on food policy, nutrition, cooking,
and organic gardening. Seminars cover such topics as Genetically
Modified Food Safety, Obesity and the Food System, Food as Medicine,
Pastured-Raised Foods, Preserving the Harvest, Autumn Cooking,
Biodynamic Agriculture, Soil, Pest & Weed Control, and Extending the
Growing Season.
The keynote is delivered by Anna Lappe, co-founder of the Small Planet
Fund and international commentator on food politics. Her first book,
“Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet,” co-authored with her
mother, Frances Moore Lappe, chronicles social movements on five
continents addressing the root causes of hunger and poverty.
In 2002 she was the first recipient of the Bioneers Youth Award. She
is currently a Food and Society Fellow of the Kellogg Foundation and
is working on her second book, “Grub: Ideas for an Urban, Organic
Kitchen.”
The conference will offer healthy foods (for payment) in many forms
for both breakfast and lunch. Healthy lunch options will be offered by
Wild Oats Market-Princeton, Down to Earth-Red Bank, and the Waldorf
School. Lunch will also feature live music by Banish Misfortune, a
Princeton-based acoustic trio that specializes in traditional or
“roots” music of North America.
The conference winds down with a tour of both the Waldorf School’s
educational organic garden and adjoining Orchard Farm, a 2-acre
NOFA-NJ certified organic vegetable farm.
From the Garden to the Table, Saturday, October 2, 9 a.m.to 3 p.m., the Waldorf School. Registration fee: $45. Register atwww.nofanj.org.Next StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
