What: Hendricks County Master Gardeners Presents Adventures in Gardening: How to Feed a Planet
Where: Hendricks County Fairgrounds Auditorium, Danville, Ind.
When: 8 a.m. registration, Saturday, September 28, 2013. Programs 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Registration fee: $45, includes breakfast, lunch and materials. Call Emily (317) 745-9260 to reserve a spot.
About: How do you feed a world of hungry people while maintaining a healthy natural environment? This year’s Hendricks County Master Gardeners daylong seminar focuses on the complex issues of food production.
The basics of growing food to feed a planet are far from basic. Whether industrial, natural, organic or genetically modified, our food comes from many sources near and far, simple and complex.
Speakers will discuss a piece of this complex puzzle of food production. The day ends with a panel discussion of speakers discussing common issues and concerns around food production. Conflicts and controversies, and how various methods of food production can be balanced to feed the world while maintaining a healthy planet will be discussed.
Seminar speakers:
Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center, will speak on emerging food systems in Indiana.
Cris G. Hochwender, assistant professor of environmental science and evolutionary ecology, will speak on restoration of native seeds and plant diversity.
David Wyeth, District 5 director of Indiana Farm Bureau, is a fourth-generation farmer whose family has owned land in Hendricks County since 1919.
