My, What a Green Month!

An ever-changing list of our staff picks for upcoming green-themed events, workshops, talks, and outings around the area. 

 

 

 

BIKING  |  Friday, April 27

With its rolling hills, wide-open farmland and corridors of pine trees, Wisconsin is truly one of the best states for road biking, and who better to help you take off the training wheels for the upcoming summer rides than Eric and Kathy Schramm, who wrote the extensive Two Bikes and a Map and have led hundreds of adventures.

Local recycling and compost guru George Dreckmann hosts an everything-you-need-to-know seminar to begin home composting. Should you throw bits of chicken in the pot? Bones? Kitty litter? When to turn it? All your questions will be answered this afternoon. Plans for your own composting bin included in the session. (Additional seminar, Saturday, May 5, Alicia Ashman Library, 733 N. High Point, 1:30 - 3pm)

Become even more of a cheesehead by learning how to make your own cheeses at home. Covering a variety of cheeses-from fromage blanc to cream cheese.

Willy Street (East) @ 2 pm, Willy Street (West) @ 6 pm,

Register at Customer Service desk or call 251-6776

$15 for "owners", $25 for others

 

 

A beautifully filmed movie, Planeat ostensibly profiles three men and the choices they have made in their lives about food, diet and eating. But really, the movie is about much more: How do our meals connect us to smart choices, to health, to farms, to our restaurants? Without heavy-handed messaging, the film is a wonderfully smart essay about eating and diet. Followed by a short film on ice fishing! Could it be any better?

As part of the Year of CSA, Fair Share is hosting a lecture series about food. The series kicks off this evening with "food sleuth" Melinda Hemmelgarn, who routinely researches the truth behind food and industry claims. A funny and thoughtful writer and artist, her lecture discusses how to change the way we eat by changing how we think about agriculture.

A stunningly beautiful film, Wasteland has received enough awards and trophies to fill its own landfill (including an Academy Award nomination for best documentary). The film follows an unlikely-and extremely sweet and sensitive-story of a New York photographer chronicling trash pickers in Brazil.