Hey hey,
With the Farmer’s Market and your local garden exploding with the local colors and flavors, we are excited to announce that LoaTree will be helping produce and market the first annual Sol Food Festival on October 2nd, 2010 in Vera Cruz Park (across the street from the Farmer’s Market).
The local, sustainable food movement is on fire. The desire to reconnect with our food has been reawakened. And it couldn’t be more timely.
With continuing assaults on organic standards, the explosion of obesity rates in our kids, the environmental degradation of our industrial food complex and the list goes on…as important, the clear understanding the cascading benefits to our health, our relationships and our planet’s health with the growing local, sustainable food.…the time is ripe.
To that end, local food advocates helped catalyze the wildly successful “Harvest to Home” area at April’s Santa Barbara Earth Day and are leveraging that success to present a one day food festival profiling the vibrant sustainable food movement. Sol Food will feature workshops, exhibitors, marketplace, and of course…tasty, local food and drink.
We are still working out details with the City of Santa Barbara and there are opportunities abound if you want to help influence this festival. Follow us on the Sol Food Festival Facebook Page or our (soon to be launched) website.
If you are interested in sponsoring, exhibiting, lecturing or supporting the food festival, please email roots@loatree.com.
LoaTree TV debut: Didn’t make it to the Arbor Grand Opening celebration and Soul Majestic concert? Don’t worry, check out this short video on LoaTree TV! Stay tuned for more episodes.
Upcoming Events:
- Reweaving the Web: The Permaculture Connection Join us this SATURDAY, July 17th from 11AM – 3PM, Suggested $15 donation, Alpha Resource Center gardens, 4501 Cathedral Oaks Road. A GREAT way to introduce yourself to permaculture in this entertaining workshop with the talented Benjamin Fahrer and Diane Patterson. Permaculture has played an important role in shaping LoaTree’s approach to business…come check out the special sauce called permaculture.
2. Green Drinks, Kunin Winery, 28 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, 6 – 8pm. Join us for another night of networking and sharing conversation. A block from the Beach, ride or walk there. Go to our Facebook Page to find a bicycle or walking buddy. Brought to you by LoaTree and Weekend Hippie.
We are excited to help grow this fun event on a monthly (third Tuesday) basis. To get on our mailing list, send a note to roots@loatree.com ,’Like’ the Green Drinks Santa BarbaraFacebook page or check the website.
We are almost at 3,000 people, help us get there. Go to the LoaTree Facebook page, and hit “Suggest to Friends” on the left hand side of the page. Here are some recent posts and links from our Facebook Page:
Quote of the day for you current or future parents: “It’s not only children who grow; Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.”- Joyce Maynerd
Good day everyone. Please check out Solar SUNday. In LIGHT of the BP disaster, in LIGHT of dirty coal, in LIGHT of the endless amount of sun rays that hit our faces, please attend this event. Hosted by our good friends at the Community Environmental Council (CEC). It is FREE to the public.
Please read this article if you live in California. Big oil is going to try and roll back our leading edge, statewide climate change legislation. This is important…educate yourself and spread the word. They will dump 150 million into this campaign and we must use grassroots organizing.
The climate war’s western front | The Climate Desk
