We are pleased to present the following for your enjoyment and education.
Photo courtesy of Litchfield Hills Food Systems
Sherri Brooks Vinton, Chef & Author
Museum building,
1:00–2:00 PM
Sherri isn't a nutritionist, or a scientist, or a farmer. In the preface to her book, The Real Food Revival, she describes herself as an "eater." But she is an expert at going through the grocery store aisle by aisle and figuring out how you can change your food purchases step by step from conventional groceries to what she calls real food: "delicious, produced as locally as possible, sustainable, affordable, and accessible." She's not trying to get anyone to change the kinds of food they eat (with the exception of reducing processed foods), which allows her to cover options like meat and raw milk with fewer of the emotional triggers some discussions of those options tend to produce.
Sherri's website offers online bulletins on topics such as food preservation. For a preview of her perspectives, see the "Food Renegade" website.
Gardening Not Grass
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM,
Presentation Area, South Exhibitor Tent
Enjoy this panel discussion as participants share their experiences growing a garden in their front and/or backyard, and as a family participating in a community garden. Moderator Bruce Schultz with Heather Crull from the Growing Matters Garden also answer your gardening questions.