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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">Lots of events coming up!</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>April 12, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/svi/488/wildflower-hike-2/"><b>Wildflower Hike (10:00 am)</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>April 18, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/events/184/tour-of-svi-and-moonshadow-5/"><b>SVI Tour of Moonshadow (1:00 pm)</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>April 25, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/events/413/party-for-the-planet-earth-day-at-the-aquarium/"><b>Party for the Planet -- Earth Day at the Aquarium</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>April 27, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/events/602/beehive-collective-true-cost-of-coal/"><b>Beehive Collective -- True Cost of Coal (5:00 pm)</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>May 16, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/events/184/tour-of-svi-and-moonshadow-5/"><b>SVI Tour of Moonshadow (1:00 pm)</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>May 21, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="http://svionline.org/events/513/food-for-life-2009/"><b>Food For Life (May 21-31)</b><b></b></a></font></li></ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#666666" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b>June 11, 2009:</b></font></li><ul><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2" color="#ffffff" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b><a href="http://svionline.org/svi/568/bonnaroo-june-11-14/">Bonnaroo! (June 11-14)</a></b></font></li></ul></ul></span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Come on up this weekend and join us for the wildflower hike... the last one was mostly moonshadow crew, and we had an awesome hike and learned a ton from john johnson and patrick. BRING FAMILY AND FRIENDS!</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 22.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Also, please plan to join use during Food for Life... it's 2 weekends in May for 2009, with many awesome workshops presented by regional food experts.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px; line-height: 23.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="5" color="#c34d46" style="font: 18.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Food for Life 2009 — Schedule</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><i>(subject to change - please call if you want to be sure about a particular workshop)</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Food for Life is run on Central Time.</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Thursday May 21</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>1:00 -4:00 Arrivals at Moonshadow</b>, set up tent, lunch<br> <b>4:00-6:00 – Edible Landscaping/Forest Farming</b> (Patrick Ironwood) - Patrick will focus on specific species and strategies that have worked in Moonshadow’s climate… and what hasn’t. After 35 years of research, the Moonshadow landscape has taught us a lot - we would like to pass this on to all interested in growing food and developing a relationship with the land.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>6:15 – Dinner</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>7:45 — Welcome Circle and Vision Sharing</b> (Facilitator: Sandorkraut) - We’ll open Food for Life this year with a circle in which we will brainstorm about ways folks can reclaim food from corporate control. Bring ideas, visions, and fantasies of grassroots action to create better food choices. In our circle we will share our visions and inspire one another to action.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Friday, May 22</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 – Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 – Morning Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-10:30 – Introduction to Fermentation </b>(Sandor Katz) - Experience how simple it is to harness the transformational power of microorganisms to make foods and beverages more delicious, more nutritious, more digestible, and more stable. Learn about the healing qualities and nutritional importance of live-culture ferments, as well as their illustrious history and integral role in human cultural evolution. Empower yourself with simple techniques for fermenting these healthful foods in your home. Be part of the fermentation revival!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>10:45-12:15 — Food, Evolution, and Body Ecology </b>(Rachel Fee-Prince)- A discussion centering around our evolutionary relationship with food and the paradigm shift happening now concerning our food & illness. We will look at our species growing intolerance to staple foods, our immunity, gut flora & the mysterious endocrine system. How big is the picture? How are we evolving now? And how do we tend the garden within?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>12:30-1:45 — Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>2:00-5:00 — Fermentation - Wine and Beer</b> (Andrew Armstrong and Patrick Ironwood) We’ll keg an ale brewed the prior weekend, learn a bit about brewing, and participants will each fill a bottle to take home and savor when the time is right. We’ll also learn to make a simple country wine from local ingredients.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>5:15 — Dinner</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>6:45 “Life and Debt” </b>(facilitator, Jeff Rodgers) “Life and Debt” explores the effect of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policies on developing countries through Jamaica’s experience with the organization. Jamaica, having gained its independence from Britain in 1962, found itself struggling as a result of the oil embargo the following year. In order to receive loans from the IMF, the country entered into a tricky agreement with its lenders. The terms of the loan stipulated that Jamaica had to agree to reduce trade barriers by withdrawing its local import restrictions, and thus enter the world market. The local economy became flooded with foreign goods, which were cheaper than those produced locally, resulting in a loss of jobs and economic self-reliance. A powerful example of the cycle of dependence is seen through the method of milk production. Jeff will lead a discussion after the movie.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Saturday May 23</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 – Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 — Morning Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-11:45 – Choice of two workshops:<br> Too Much Food?? </b>(Carol Kimmons) - Safe and Healthy Food<br> Preservation. This hands-on workshop will cover fun and easy methods of<br> canning, pickling, freezing, and drying your surplus from the garden or market. Materials and instruction booklets included.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Play with Yer Food </b>(Michelle Kimmons) - A hands-on crafts workshop just for kids! (…yes, grown-ups are welcome to participate as well). Hope your imaginations are hungry, because Michelle is cookin’ up some creative fun! This year, we will look at examples of art inspired by food and then make our own fabulous art using things found in the kitchen! Your refrigerator has never seen art like this!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>12:00-1:15 – Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>1:30-3:15 — Econutrition</b> (Joel Kimmons) - Lets talk about nourishment- ecology and where we fit in- how can we live an inspired gastronomic experience while nourishing the earth and all her communities. Local food, CSAs, farmers markets, community gardens, green spaces, school gardens, cooking, eating, and how to be more than just poop factories. Bring short questions (or don’t) and we will work towards the best answers in a real world and whole world perspective.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>3:30-5:00 Tonic Beverages</b> (Sandor Katz) This workshop will cover kombucha, kefir, water kefir and beet kvass.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>5:15-6:45 — Cultural development in 1st, 2nd and 3rd world: Green response to the collapse of the Great Toxic Bubble</b> (Sandy Hepler) - Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon. This workshop will have a special emphasis on food and nutrition. Experiences and food costs will be drawn from Sandy’s experiences in Nicaragua which are typical of many 3rd world countries.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>7:00 — Pizza and wood fired cob oven discussion</b> (Patrick Ironwood) - we will disscus the ins and outs of wood oven use and tips on building your own… as we bake.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Sunday May 24</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 — Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 — Morning Circle and Fermentation check-in</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-11:00 — Wild Edibles and Native Plants</b> (Carol Kimmons) Walk through the fields and forest to discover plants which have fed and healed<br> Appalachian humans for thousands of years. Learn about current research on safe medical uses of our native plants. Collect plants to make a “wild salad” for the evening meal.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>11:15-12:45 — Hands On Herbalism</b> (Rachel Fee-Prince) - We’ll prepare one herb three ways, exploring how each medium changes the herbs actions as well as discuss many other herbs & their applications. Relaxed discussion atmosphere with plenty of Q&A time. Bring a small glass jar with lid if you wish to take medicine home.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>1:00 — Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>2:15-3:45 — Chocolate Surprise </b>(Sandy Hepler) - Explore an all-time world favorite. Cacao itself is health food and can be made healthier. Original Aztecs drank it as a hot, bitter, peppered drink (did they ever add honey?). A really healthy, great-tasting chocolate is possible! samples of delicious organic chocolate are guaranteed. These are handmade in northern Tennessee by Sandy Hepler himself, our Mad Kitchen Scientist.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>4:00 — First Weekend Closing Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Monday: hike and swim</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Tuesday: work day at Ulinawi, Moonshadow’s neighbor (see below)</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Wednesday: work day at Ulinawi</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555">This season Ulinawi is taking off with new agricultural and building projects! We will be pasture-farming chickens, working towards a more animal-integrated landscape, as well as developing garden beds and row crops.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555">Also, we are simultaneously working on revolutionarily simple rural family housing and permanent earth bag and timber-frame thousand-year dwellings. Other projects include developing a vermiculture system (worms), experimenting with rabbit breeding and mushroom cultivation and taking care of our goats.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Thursday May 28</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>10:00 — Sequatchie Cove Farm Tour</b> This day will start with a trip to the “Sequatchie Cove Farm,” a diversified family-run biodynamic farm working with available resources, focusing on grass-based animal protein (eggs, meat). They also raise bees and native plants, operate a pick-your-own berry patch<br> and have made their own biodiesel.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>12:00-2:15 — Arrivals at Moonshadow, Tent Set-Up and Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>2:30-4:30 — Permaculture</b> (Patrick Ironwood) The moonshadow homestead is a great example of permaculture… we will explore and disscuss the key ideas behind these concepts.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>4:45-5:45 — Artist/Activists Participatory Theatre </b>- part one (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - Group games, improv, automatic play writing and exploring fearless narratives! All ages invited to<br> play. We will create a play to be performed on Saturday night.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>6:00 — Dinner</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>7:30 – ”Flow” </b>(Asha Ironwood, Facilitator) - For 84 terrifying and informative minutes, filmmaker Irena Salina makes a very persuasive case for stopping the commoditization of water and ensuring that everyone has access to clean drinking water. Salina interviews an array of researchers and activists who all describe the frightening international situation: dirty water kills more people than wars, the world is quickly running out of clean water, and water has become a valuable commodity for multinational corporations to exploit for profit.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Friday May 29</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 — Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 — Morning Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-10:30 Slow Food, Farm to School, Preserving Farmland </b>(Trish King) - Discussion on the philosophy of Slow Food USA: promoting good, clean, and fair food. How will a good, clean, and fair food system benefit communities? What are the implications for institutional food systems such as school lunches? What will happen to our local food economy as land use changes and farmland is threatened by sprawl? From a global movement to the local food scene, we’ll discuss what it means to live Slow.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>10:45-11:45 Choice of two workshops: </b><br> <b>Beer Brewing, Bottling & Kegging </b>(Andrew Armstrong) We’ll keg an ale brewed the prior weekend, learn a bit about brewing, and participants will each fill a bottle to take home and savor when the time is right.<br> <b>Artist/Activists Participatory Theatre</b> - part two (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - We look for the play. Characters start appearing…</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>12:00-1:15 — Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>1:30-3:30 – Hands-on Tempeh and Vegetable Fermentation</b> workshop (Sandor Katz)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>3:45 — Cheese for Beginners</b> workshop (Spiky)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Dinner</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Evening program — “Man and Fungi : A Journey into the Past, Present, and Future of Mushrooms on Earth” </b>(Tradd Cotter)</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Saturday May 30</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 – Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 – Morning Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-11:30 — Mushrooms : Cultivation, Composting, and Biological Filters </b>(Tradd Cotter) - Participants will learn the basics of log and straw cultivation of most edible mushrooms. Included will be techniques for enhancing yields of garden crops by creating hybrid systems to optimize water conservation, filtering livestock runoff using mushroom compost filters, and converting agricultural and household waste streams into edible protein. Creating perpetual and circular systems will also be discussed.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>11:45-1:00 — Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>1:15-3:00 — Farm and Activist Networking Panel</b> (Padgett Arnold from Sequatchie Cove Farm, Sandorkraut from Little Short Mountain Farm, Bradley Jones from Ulinawi, Trish King from Slow Food and Land Trust for TN, and representatives from Crabtree Farms and Williams Island farm)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>3:15-5:15 — Artist/Activists Participatory Theatre</b> - part three (Cerulean, Aurelia Crumb, Trish Woolbright and Patrick Ironwood) - One last rehearsal…</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>5:30 — Dinner</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>7:00 — Performance by the Food for Life improv theater troupe</b> - After dinner theatre. Please bring instruments. Dress: festive.<br> A long-form improvisational narrative will be presented. Be prepared for fun!</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 6.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="4" color="#c34d46" style="font: 13.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Sunday May 31</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>8:00-9:00 – Breakfast</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:15 — Morning Circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>9:30-11:00 — Organic Meats, Butchery and Sausage Making </b>(Trae Moore) What i could do would be talk a bit about butchery, sausage making and cured/fermented meats. I guess I could make a bit of sausage too.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>11:15-12:15 — Rainbarrels: a how-to and why </b>(Jon Cable) - This workshop will be an overview of the purpose and use of rainbarrels followed with a demonstration of how to construct one with simple tools. There will be a hand-out for folks to take home to reference with helpful sources.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>12:30-1:45 — Lunch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>2:00-4:00 — Basic Breadmaking by Hand </b>(John Sweet from Niedlov’s Breadworks in Chattanooga) - There will be discussion, demonstration and participation in easy and reliable hand-mixing techniques, basic bread shaping, and baking of our handmade bread.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>4:15-5:15 — Breaking bread at the closing circle</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 12px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Voices for Appalachia<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; "></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C34D46" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; ">Throughout the second weekend Food for Life participants will have the opportunity to be involved in the following bioregional art project:</span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"><b>Voices for Appalachia, Written and Narrated by Hundreds — A Portrait-Story Project</b> (Casey and Cesco) - Being our own media. Be your own ethnographer and historian. A positive self-fulfilling paradigm of expression…</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555">If you’d like to participate, you can write your anecdotal, Appalachia bioregional, narrative (with a clear sense of TIME, PLACE, and ACTION) in advance or on site. When Cesco is finished sketching your face (using a combination of wet and dry media), you will copy your narrative in your own handwriting onto the page around our portrait of your face. This series of hundreds of stories and portraits travels as a show, and the images also go online to make perspectives widely available.</font></div> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555">for more info about this project see: <a href="http://voicesforappalachia.org/"><font color="#3d6f9e" style="color: #3d6f9e">voicesforappalachia.org</font></a> and <a href="http://portraitstoryproject.org/"><font color="#3d6f9e" style="color: #3d6f9e">portraitstoryproject.org</font></a></font></li> </ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#555555" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #555555"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px; line-height: 20.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="5" color="#c34d46" style="font: 16.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #c34d46">Download the event flyer (pdf)</font></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#3d6f9e" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #3d6f9e"><a href="http://svionline.org/svi/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/food-for-life-2009-flyer.pdf">Food for Life flyer (Legal size - 8.5″x14″)</a></font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="#3d6f9e" style="font: 11.0px Trebuchet MS; color: #3d6f9e"><a href="http://svionline.org/svi/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/food-for-life-flyer-small.pdf">Food for Life flyer (Letter size - 8.5″x11″)</a></font></li> </ul></p><div><br>We hope to see you soon!</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; 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