Buy Local - Buy Rogue

“Everything I Want to Do is Illegal”
An Evening with Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms as featured in Michael Polan's The Omnivore's Dilemma

Presented by Jackson County Local Action Coalition

$15 for pre-reg (deadline Wed, Feb. 17th at 5 PM)
$20 at the door

From food police to hurried, harried families, a wholesome American dining experience is virtually a thing of the past.  The relationships, the knowledge, and the careful preparation have been replaced by bar codes and plastic packaging, irradiation and reconstituted fare.  Yet, a food system with integrity depends on reconnecting with the menu: rediscovering our “dinner dance partner.”

First Session:  BUILDING A LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM THAT WORKS.
6:45-7:15pm

A fully operational food system needs producers, processors, accountants, marketers, distributors, and consumers.  With lots of colorful stories and humor we'll dive into each of these elements to create an understanding of the whole.

Second Session: “EVERYTHING I WANT TO DO IS ILLEGAL”
7:30-8:00pm

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily run a gauntlet of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which instead wipe out the antidote: appropriate-scaled local food systems. This is a call for guerrilla marketing, food-choice freedom legislation, and regulatory standards that offer solutions to these bureaucratic hurdles.