Re: Reminder: Talk on Will Allen Visionary Urban Farmer, Oct 1

[Cass Gonmiah]

I WANNA GO!! ------------------------------ On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:28 PM BST Tobias Fox wrote: >I will be there or I'll be a circle inside of a square. :-) I'm almost done >reading his book (memoir). I'm hoping to be done reading it by Monday :-) > >Tobias > >On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, ellen <rashe...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> This man has so many innovations regarding inexpensive sources of >> renewable energy. >> His personal story from son of share-croppers to heading a food >> justice/sustainability/training empire is inspiring. >> I hope you can come and be inspired by him as I have been. He has much to >> teach us. >> >> {~~also reminder - if you come by train, I will pick you up, the talk is 5 >> minutes from the train station. >> But I have to be at the place to set-up a little early. So let me know if >> anyone will want a ride. } >> >> "Will Allen - Visionary Urban Farmer" >> One of a series of presentations by Raices Eco-Culture
Sustainability Group >> October 1, 2012 >> 7- 8:30pm >> Location: Ruthie's Bagel Dish >> 70 Raritan Ave. (between Cedar Ave and First Ave) >> Highland Park, NJ 08904 >> Free >> >> Will Allen is an African-American whose parents fled the South in the >> Great Migration to escape a life of sharecropping. Growing up, although >> poor, his family had a plot of land of their own, and so always had enough >> to eat. As an adult, Will never forgot the taste of fresh food, and the >> satisfaction of growing and harvesting it one's self. >> He left a career as a successful executive with the goal of bringing fresh >> produce to low-income people. This is the story of how - starting out >> selling vegetables off the back of his truck - he created an urban food >> network that today distributes food across seven states, produces 40 tons >> of vegetables a year, and provides a serious challenge to the industrial >> agricultural system. >> This 2008 recipient of the
MacArthur Genius Grant, shows us how urban >> farming can not only provide a solution to our ecological and energy >> crisis, but can also lead us back to a time of community, sustainability >> and self-respect. >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > >-- > > >

[ellen]

Hi all,

to anyone taking the train, I suggest the one that leaves Newark Penn station at 5:40, arrives New Bruns at 6:13.  It is early bec. I need to be at the talk early to set up with computer, etc. 

let me know who is coming, and I will gladly provide shuttle service.  :)

ell

[Cass Gonmiah]

Me! Pending trainfare... ------------------------------ On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 10:01 AM BST ellen wrote: >Hi all, >to anyone taking the train, I suggest the one that leaves Newark Penn >station at 5:40, arrives New Bruns at 6:13. It is early bec. I need to be >at the talk early to set up with computer, etc. >let me know who is coming, and I will gladly provide shuttle service. :) > >ell > >On Friday, September 28, 2012 8:22:49 PM UTC-4, cassjames4 wrote: >> >> >> I WANNA GO!! ------------------------------ On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 5:28 >> PM BST Tobias Fox wrote: >I will be there or I'll be a circle inside of a >> square. :-) I'm almost done >reading his book (memoir). I'm hoping to be >> done reading it by Monday :-) > >Tobias > >On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:49 AM, >> ellen <rashe...@yahoo.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> This man has so many >> innovations regarding inexpensive sources of >> renewable energy. >> His >> personal story from son of

share-croppers to heading a food >> >> justice/sustainability/training empire is inspiring. >> I hope you can come >> and be inspired by him as I have been. He has much to >> teach us. >> >> >> {~~also reminder - if you come by train, I will pick you up, the talk is 5 >> >> minutes from the train station. >> But I have to be at the place to >> set-up a little early. So let me know if >> anyone will want a ride. } >> >> >> "Will Allen - Visionary Urban Farmer" >> One of a series of >> presentations by Raices Eco-Culture >> Sustainability Group >> October 1, 2012 >> 7- 8:30pm >> Location: >> Ruthie's Bagel Dish >> 70 Raritan Ave. (between Cedar Ave and First Ave) >> >> Highland Park, NJ 08904 >> Free >> >> Will Allen is an African-American >> whose parents fled the South in the >> Great Migration to escape a life of >> sharecropping. Growing up, although >> poor, his family had a plot of land >> of their own, and so always had enough >> to

eat. As an adult, Will never >> forgot the taste of fresh food, and the >> satisfaction of growing and >> harvesting it one's self. >> He left a career as a successful executive >> with the goal of bringing fresh >> produce to low-income people. This is >> the story of how - starting out >> selling vegetables off the back of his >> truck - he created an urban food >> network that today distributes food >> across seven states, produces 40 tons >> of vegetables a year, and provides >> a serious challenge to the industrial >> agricultural system. >> This 2008 >> recipient of the >> MacArthur Genius Grant, shows us how urban >> farming can not only >> provide a solution to our ecological and energy >> crisis, but can also >> lead us back to a time of community, sustainability >> and self-respect. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > >-- > > > >> > >-- > > >