Program -
5 hours Professional Development Credit for Faculty
12:30 pm – organic regional lunch, book
and food-related displays
1:00
– 1:30 pm – Madelyn Moyer
Community Rooted Organic Produce Services (CROPS)
1:30
– 2:15 – Ruth Ozeki, Author of All Over Creation
The Impact of Food on the Environment Informs My Novels
2:15 – MDC Green Expo –
(break- coffee, tea and desert)
Second Floor – Building K
2:45
– 3:30 pm – Video and Discussion-
Video: Interview, Amy Goodman and Michael Pollan (20 minutes)
Discussion: Big Food vs. Big Insurance; Michael Pollen
3:30
– 4 :15 pm – Gabriela Marewski, Organic Gardener
Organic Gardening in South Florida
4:15
– Anouchka Rachelson
ESL Kendall Garden Outside Bldg. 6
4:30
pm – 5 pm – Reception -
Kendall Environmental Center
RUTH
OZEKI is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist, whose work has
been characterized by U.S.A. Today as "ardent and passionate...rare
and provocative." Her first novel, My Year of Meats, was published
in 1998 by Viking Penguin and has garnered widespread glowing
reviews, awards, and a still-growing readership. Ozeki's second
novel, All Over Creation (Viking Penguin, 2003) shifts the focus
from meat to potatoes in a story of a family farmer, his prodigal
daughter, an itinerant gang of environmental activists, and a New
Age corporate spin doctor, whose lives and interests collide in
Liberty Falls, Idaho. In a starred review, Kirkus called this cast
of characters "most fully realized and heart-wrenching in their
imperfect yearnings," and declared All Over Creation, "a feast for
mind and heart." Again a New York Times Notable Book, All Over
Creation is the recipient of a 2004 American Book Award from the
Before Columbus Foundation, as well as the Willa Literary Award for
Contemporary Fiction.
GABRIELE MAREWSKI is an organic farmer and owner of Paradise Farms,
a very successful five acre certified organic farm in South Florida.
In addition, she is a key organizer of Dinners in Paradise, a series
of dinners by well-known South Florida chefs now in its fourth
season. Proceeds from the dinners are donated to area organizations
working to promote environmental sustainability.
MADELYN MOYER is an AmeriCorps VISTA currently working with Earth
Ethics Institute. Her service project is CROPS, an organic produce
buying club established to bring fresh organic produce to the
Wolfson Campus employees and students as well as serve as a
replicable service learning project. In addition Madelyn oversees
the EEI Organic Gardens in the Community project.
ANOUCHKA RACHELSON is a professor at the Kendall Campus who has
incorporated an organic garden for three years into her ESL classes.
