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Alemany Farm Out on the Town

By The Farm Team | June 25, 2010

Dear Farm Friends:

One of the great things about urban agriculture is that, well, it’s urban. Which means that there are more opportunities to engage people in conversations about sustainable food systems than there might be in the sticks.

In the next couple of week, Alemany Farmers will be speaking at a couple of events we want to make sure you know about.

On Wed, May 12, Alemany Farm co-manager Jason Mark will speak at the SF Commonwealth Club as part of a panel on urban farming that will also feature Oakland homesteader Novella Carpenter and Chris Burley from Hayes Valley Farm. For more info and tickets, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/2385mqe

Then, on Mon, May 17, Alemany Farm co-founder Antonio Roman-Alcala will speak at SPUR as part of Shaping San Francisco’s “Ecology Emerges” series. Antonio will join writer Rebecca Solnit and UC Professor Dick Walker to explore the “Economies of Nature.” For more info, please visit: http://events.sfgate.com/san-francisco-ca/events/show/103720765-ecology-emerges-4-economies-of-nature

Alemany Farm is also happy to help promote an upcoming debate about the role of animals in our food systems: NIMAN vs LYMAN — Can you be a “good environmentalist” and still eat meat? … Featuring Nicolette Hahn Niman, author of Righteous Porkchop, and Howard Lyman, the “mad cowboy” who won’t eat meat. Thursday, May 20, at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley.
For more info and tickets, please visit: http://eii.org/events/vs/

And don’t forget about our upcoming community workdays. We’re in the full swing of spring and busy planting tomatoes, basil and peppers plus spring orchard care and, as always, compost building. Our next regularly scheduled workdays are:

Saturday, May 8, Noon to 5 PM
Monday, May 10, 1 PM to 5 PM
Sunday, May 16, Noon to 5 PM
Monday, May 17, 1 PM to 5 PM

… If you’re still hungry for some gardening, we encourage you to participate in the new weekly workdays at the Children’s Garden at the SF Botanical Garden. Every Thursday, Noon to 4:30 PM. For more info, contact volunteer@sfbotanicalgarden.org.

Thanks, as always, for helping to make SF more food secure!

The Farm Team

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