John Jeavons - Food for the Future: Now

In this presentation, John Jeavons will present a path towards creating a sustainable food system, and why it is essential that we follow it. In short, he will discuss how we can grow each person's food on 1% of the area used by conventional farming, while building soil and saving water. Jeavons will discuss how resilient communities can be built around localized food systems.

John Jeavons is the Executive Director of Ecology Action, a 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Willits, California. He is also the founder of Common Ground Garden, the educational and demonstration garden located in Palo Alto. He is known internationally as the author of the best-selling book “How to Grow More Vegetables—and Fruits, Nuts, Berries and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible With Less Water Than You Can Imagine”, as well as author, co-author and/or editor of over 40 publications on the topic of biologically intensive food- and soil- growing. For the past 45 years Jeavons has devoted his time to research, develop and teach a small-scale, resource-conserving agricultural method — GROW BIOINTENSIVE®. This high-yield food raising approach is being successfully practiced in over 150 countries—in virtually all climates and soils where food is grown, and by organizations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, and the Peace Corps.

Adapted from The Foodshed Forum.

Date: August 26, 2017 6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Location: Los Altos Library | 13 South San Antonio, Los Altos

Admission: FREE

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