Montevallo Literary Festival | April 16 | 2:30 pm
Monday, April 13, 2009 at 06:23PM 
Sara, Rashmi, Joe and I will be speaking at the Montevallo Literary Festival this Thursday, April 16th at 2:30 in the afternoon. We'll be talking about the project and the blogging/filming that we've done in our year of local eating. You can find more information about the Festival on Montevallo's website. But the most exciting thing about our trip to Montevallo has to be the Sustainability Banquet that evening. Michael Patton, a philosphy professor at Montevallo, has been teaching a course entitled "Science, Technology, and Value," which has in recent years focused almost exclusively on questions of local food and sustainability. Each semester the students put together what they've dubbed the Sustainability Banquet - where everything served is grown or raised within 100 miles. We're fortunate that the Banquet and the Literary Festival coincide this year. The Banquet is open to the public and if you're in that neck of the woods, we'd love to see you there! That, and Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood will be the featured guest and speaker at the Banquet.
You can read about the course here, or a recent newspaper article about the banquet here.
Reader Comments (1)
We were there! We missed ya'll!! We played at the reception afterwards...
-Mecca