WHAT: Celebrate good and local foods!
WHEN: Sunday, April, 2009 (5:30 PM)
WHERE: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA
COST: $10 (children under 12 are free) Space is limited, please RSVP
EVENT SCHEDULE
5:30 pm So Cal Freedom Gardeners Swap N Meet
Swap crops, seeds, plants, soil block demonstrations and more!
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Local Food Potluck. meet and greet the URBAN GOATS
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Film Screening ‘FOOD MATTERS’ (80 min)
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Join in discussion and even a pop quiz
FILM DETAILS
“Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food.” – Hippocrates
“Food Matters is a must see for those looking to take control of their health.” – John Gray, PhD, NY Times Best Selling Author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Outstanding” – John Robbins, author of Diet for A New America
“Anyone who is serious about their health needs to see this stunning film.” – Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause and Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
“Thought provoking, informative, and compelling, this film matters.” – Rory Freedman, Coauthor of #1 NY Times Best Seller Skinny Bitch
Food Matters’ is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is de?nitely not helping the situation.
‘Food Matters’ seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness. With the premise of the film being: access to solid information helps people invariably make better choices for their health.
The ‘Food Matters’ duo have independently funded the film from start to finish in order to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world.
POTLUCK DETAILS
Bring something (preferably vegetarian) to contribute to the potluck – bring enough food for yourself/family and a bit to share. The primary focus of the ‘Locavore’ potluck is to promote eating whole foods, in their nature-made state, focusing on fresh food from local sources (or as local as possible)
If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced.
If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic.
If not ORGANIC, then Family farm.
If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business.
If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.
Freedom Gardens Swap N Meet
Come cultivate community. Swap crops, seeds and experiences (or lack thereof!)
Getting ready to GROW YOUR OWN? Check out SOIL BLOCK making demonstrations, URBAN GOATS and MORE!
Growing for 21st century food security, FreedomGardens.org is a free interactive, online social community of gardening enthusiasts who are fed up with foreign oil, frequent food miles and high food prices.
For more information regarding this event visit our website or
To reserve either online or contact 626.844.4586
Since the mid–1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants. Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel,raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness. Since 2001, their site has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement.
Visit their blog at LittleHomesteadintheCity.org
