Small-scale agriculture will be the focus of a presentation by Kristy Athens, an outreach specialist with the Northeast Oregon Economic Development District in Wallowa County, Saturday, Aug. 22, 4 p.m. at the Hood River Library.
Oregon’s small-scale, community supported agriculture includes farmers markets in The Dalles and Hood River, farm memberships throughout the gorge and community gardens. These smaller, community-based efforts are on the rise as means to nurture community and create a local and autonomous food systems, Athens said.
Athens will ask the question: Are these choices as consequential as consumers would like them to be? Does “voting with your dollars” significantly shape our agricultural systems?
Her presentation is titled “Good food, bad food: Agriculture, Ethics, and Personal Choice” and is a free, hosted by Hood River Library and co-sponsored by Oregon Humanities and Gorge Grown.
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” published by Process Media in 2012.
In 2014, Athens 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, Oregon, where she works at the NE Oregon Economic Development District as outreach specialist, and has spent time in every Oregon county except one.
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