Community Conversations
Winter 2011: Menu for the Future
Join a regional conversation about our global and local food system. There are classes throughout the Upper Valley and right here in Hanover. The Menu for the Future groups are off to a great start!
Register here, email catamount@valley.net or call 603-643-0328.
Menu for the Future topics include: industrial agriculture, organics, processed food, Fair Trade, food and health, and eating sustainably and locally. Discussion groups meet weekly for 1-1 1/2 hours to discuss readings from an anthology of excerpts from some of the best writers on these topics.
Course books are available at the Norwich Bookstore and the Hanover Co-op's Service Desk. Most libraries have books to borrow. The price for course participants is $11.
For more information about the course, locations, starting dates click here. To register click here. Participants should read Session I (12 pages) prior to the first discussion session. In addition to the groups listed below, the Lebanon SAU 88, St. Paul's Church in WRJ, Tuck Sustains, and Ray School parents and teachers have also convened discussion groups. Menu for the Future Discussion Groups local to Hanover:
Other MFF discussions in our region:
*Lebanon, Quechee, Norwich, and Bethel library groups may borrow books at these libraries thanks to grants from the Stettenheim Foundation and Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust. The books for sale are underwritten by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, King Arthur Flour, Mascoma Savings Bank Foundation, River Road Vet Clinic, and the Sierra Club.Thanks to Community Conversations partners (the Co-op Food Stores, Sierra Club, Sustainable Hanover, Upper Valley Land Trust, Upper Valley Localvores, and Vital Communities) for all of their help in making these discussion groups possible. A special thanks to the Co-op Food Stores and the Service Desk employees for selling the Menu for the Future anthologies.
Register here, email catamount@valley.net or call 603-643-0328.
Menu for the Future topics include: industrial agriculture, organics, processed food, Fair Trade, food and health, and eating sustainably and locally. Discussion groups meet weekly for 1-1 1/2 hours to discuss readings from an anthology of excerpts from some of the best writers on these topics.
Course books are available at the Norwich Bookstore and the Hanover Co-op's Service Desk. Most libraries have books to borrow. The price for course participants is $11.
For more information about the course, locations, starting dates click here. To register click here. Participants should read Session I (12 pages) prior to the first discussion session. In addition to the groups listed below, the Lebanon SAU 88, St. Paul's Church in WRJ, Tuck Sustains, and Ray School parents and teachers have also convened discussion groups. Menu for the Future Discussion Groups local to Hanover:
- Converse Free Library, Lyme, Mondays, February 7- March 14, 1-2:30 pm Register at the library, 603-795-4622
- Susan Arnold's home, Burnham Rd. Thetford, Tuesdays, February 8 - March 15, 7-8:30 pm
- Upper Valley Land Trust, Tuesdays, February 22-March 29, 12-1:30 pm, 19 Buck Road, Hanover, Register at the Upper Valley Land Trust
- Norwich Library, Mondays, February 28-April 4, 7-8:30 pm Register at and borrow books from the library, 603-643-6626
- Ray School parents group. Contact Reina Kato Lansigan (mamareina@gmail.com)
Other MFF discussions in our region:
- Three Tomatoes Trattoria, Lebanon, Tuesdays, January 25-February 15, 10-11:15 am
Register here
- Royalton Memorial Library, So. Royalton, Wednesdays, February 2-March 9, 6-7:15 pm Register and buy books at the So. Ro. Market. Books available at the library reference desk
- Harmony Farm, 28 Bowers Road, Hartland, Fridays, February 4- March 11 11 -12:30 pm, beverages and light snacks provided. Register at harmonyfarm@vermontel.net
- 115 Downer Forest Rd. So. Strafford, Sundays, February 6-March 13, 7-8:30 pm Register and info. at kreimanis@gmail.com Click to Register • Tunbridge Library, Tuesdays, February 8 - March 15, 7-8:30 pm Books available at So. Ro. Market and at the library Registration and information: Chris Woods: balevt@gmail.com
- Bethel Library, Mondays, Feb. 28-April 4, 4:30-6 pm, Register at and borrow books from the library
- Lebanon Public Library, Lebanon, Thursdays, March 3-April 7, 6:30-7:45 pm
Register & borrow books from the library
*Lebanon, Quechee, Norwich, and Bethel library groups may borrow books at these libraries thanks to grants from the Stettenheim Foundation and Anne Slade Frey Charitable Trust. The books for sale are underwritten by the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, King Arthur Flour, Mascoma Savings Bank Foundation, River Road Vet Clinic, and the Sierra Club.Thanks to Community Conversations partners (the Co-op Food Stores, Sierra Club, Sustainable Hanover, Upper Valley Land Trust, Upper Valley Localvores, and Vital Communities) for all of their help in making these discussion groups possible. A special thanks to the Co-op Food Stores and the Service Desk employees for selling the Menu for the Future anthologies.
