Events
Here's what's happening!

Saturdays, 2/20, 3/20, 4/17
Countryside Winter Farmers' Markets
Happy Days Lodge in CVNP (500 W. Streetsboro Road (Rt. 303) Peninsula)
9 a.m - noon

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Countryside Readers Group
Greenfield Berry Farm

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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Land Protection Resource Meeting
Hiram College Kennedy Center (11730 Garfield Road, Hiram 44234)
Ballroom, 2nd Floor
6-9 p.m.

Here local experts discuss the programs that you and your farm may be eligible for to preserve, protect and enhance your farm operation. Programs discussed include: Ag. Security Areas, Agricultural Easement Purchase Program, Conservation Easements and EQIP.

Co-Sponsored by: The Countryside Conservancy, Ohio Department of Agriculture, Western Reserve Land Conservancy, Western Reserve RC&D, and Portage County Regional Planning Commission. Contact Katie Myers for more information.

Friday, February 12th, 2010
Cuyahoga Valley National Park presents...
Monthly Lyceum Series featuring Deborah Madison
Happy Days Lodge
7-9 p.m.

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Tuesdays, February 16th, March 16, & April 27, 2010
The Countryside Conservancy presents...
don't buy food from strangers Film Series
Akron Main Library Auditorium (60 S. Main Street, Akron 44326)
6-9 p.m.

Join us for the debut of our don't buy food from strangers Film Series. This event is FREE & open to the public - donations will be accepted!

Our goal with this film series is to reach a broader public audience to gain support and increase demand for a healthier, more diverse food system. We have chosen three films for 2010, each taking a poignant look at what we eat.

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What's On Your Plate?- February 16th

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What's On Your Plate? Is a witty and provocative documentary produced and directed by award-winning Catherine Gund about kids and food politics. Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows two eleven-year-old multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Sadie and Safiyah take a close look at food systems in New York City and its surrounding areas. With the camera as their companion, the girl guides talk to each other, food activists, farmers, new friends, storekeepers, their families, and the viewer, in their quest to understand what’s on all of our plates.

Eating Alaska- March 16th

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What happens to a vegetarian who moves to Alaska and marries a commercial fisherman and deer hunter? Join her on a wry search for a sustainable, healthy and ethical meal. Women try to teach her to hunt, teens gather traditional foods, vegans give cooking lessons, she fishes for wild salmon, scrutinizes food labels with kids and finds toxic chemicals getting into wild foods. With humor and compassion, the documentary Eating Alaska shows natives and non-natives trying to balance buying industrial processed foods with growing their own and living off the land in the 21st century. Made by a former urban vegetarian now living on an island in Alaska, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to where we live and what we put into our mouths.

Asparagus! Stalking the American Life - April 27th

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For 30 years, Oceana County Michigan has been the Asparagus Capital of the World. Now its spear-struck residents and family farms take on the U.S. War on Drugs, Free Trade and a Fast Food Nation, all to save their beloved roots.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Countryside Readers Group
Greenfield Berry Farm

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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Countryside Readers Group
Greenfield Berry Farm

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Saturday, April 17, 2010
"$25 for 25" Raffle Drawing
Countryside Winter Farmers' Market
Happy Days Lodge (500 W. Streetsboro Road (Rt. 303) Peninsula)