Learn about food, Earth sustainablility at Pale Blue Dot event

The Nature Museum at Grafton will present “Food for Thought,” a daylong event exploring the interrelationship between food and nature to be held on Saturday, May 26. Participants will explore sustainable food systems and the cultural food revolution. This event is part of the Museum’s Pale Blue Dot program series.

Authors, musicians, farmers, business owners and naturalists will offer workshops on everything from cheesemaking, butchering, vermicomposting, to saving songbirds. Presenters will include author and VPR commentator Ron Krupp and kitchen garden designer Ellen Ecker Ogden. Severine von Tscharner Fleming will screen her documentary film, “The Greenhorns,” about a nonprofit organization of the same name that works to support young farmers.
The Pale Blue Dot, founded in 2010, is a series of events designed to rouse people to discover pioneering approaches to Earth’s ecological challenges, to spark change and ignite movement toward a new way of living on Earth.

All May 29 events will take place at venues around Grafton. Check-in will begin at 8 a.m. at the White Church at 55 Main St. in Grafton. Keynotes and workshops will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Farmers’ market and restaurant vendors will sell lunch and other local wares at The Nature Museum from noon to 1:30. And an afterparty will be held at Phelps Barn from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more information and to register, please visit The Nature Museum’s new website at www.nature-museum.org. Tickets are $30 for the day. Limited child care tickets are available for $20 per child. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged. Please call the Museum at (802) 843-2111 or email info@nature-museum.org with any questions. To stay up-to-date on all Pale Blue Dot events, “like” the Pale Blue Dot page on Facebook.