Oregon boasts a multibillion-dollar agricultural economy that includes both industrial agriculture and small-scale efforts such as community supported agriculture memberships, farmers markets, and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create local and autonomous food systems. Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
This is the focus of “Good Food, Bad Food: Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice,” a free conversation with Kristy Athens on Saturday, August 22 at 4 p.m. at Hood River Library. This program is hosted by Hood River Library and co-sponsored by Oregon Humanities and Gorge Grown.
Kristy Athens has an MS in food systems and society from Marylhurst University. She is the author of “Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living” (Process Media, 2012). In 2014, she received an Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. Her nonfiction and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, and she has been a regular contributor to HandPicked Nation. She lives in Wallowa County, where she works at the N.E. Oregon Economic Development District as outreach specialist, and has spent time in every Oregon county except one.
Through the Conversation Project, Oregon Humanities offers free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state’s future. For more information about this free community discussion, please contact Hood River Library at 541-386-2535 or info@hoodriverlibrary.org, or visit w.ww.hoodriverli-brary.org.
Oregon Humanities (813 SW Alder St, #702; Portland, OR 97205) connects Oregonians to ideas to change lives and transform communities. More information about Oregon Humanities’ programs and publications, which include the Conversation Project, Think & Drink, Humanity in Perspective, Idea Lab, Public Program Grants, and Oregon Humanities magazine, can be found at oregonhumanities.org. Oregon Humanities is an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and a partner of the Oregon Cultural Trust.
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