Friends of Mud City Press,

We live in one of the most fertile valley’s in the United States. We have the farmland and the soil quality to grow more than 200 food crops, and yet ninety-five percent of what we eat comes from outside the Willamette Valley—most of it from more than 1500 miles away. At the same time, sixty percent of what we grow here in the valley is grass for grass seed. With oil prices climbing and freight costs and food prices with them, why aren’t we growing more food right here?

Read article: RELOCALIZING EDEN (Fixing the Willamette Valley Food System)
at www.mudcitypress.com/mudeden

Want to learn more about local food systems?
then after the work party...

HEAR HARRY MACCORMACK OF SUNBOW FARM:

Saturday, May 3rd, 2:00 pm, at EWEB building, MTG Room.

For a more intimate appraisal of the Willamette Valley Food System come hear Corvallis Farmer Harry MacCormack, founder of Oregon Tilth, speak on GROWING LOCAL, “Feeding the Willamette Valley through Peak Oil and Climate Change.”

Afterward there will be a panel discussion including Linda Kelley, Food for Lane County, Jan Spencer, urban permaculturist, Charlotte Anthony, Eugene’s Victory Gardens, Aleta Miller, Urban to Farm Connection, and Dan Armstrong, Mud City Press Editor.