The Front Range Permaculture Institute, a newly formed non-profit whose mission is to educate and support Permaculture activities in the Northern Colorado Front Range is hosting “Change We Can Eat!”—a talk by Joel Salatin on the emancipation of food on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Center, (417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins, Colorado).

“Why can’t you buy raw milk, ice cream with eggs in it, or home-made sausage?,” asks Salatin. “America’s food system, enslaved by a global corporate bureaucratic fraternity, offers less choice amid the perception of abundance. The only reason the framers of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights did not guarantee citizens freedom of food choice was because they could not have conceived of a day when private treaty neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce would be demonized and criminalized.” In this call to grass roots food activism, Salatin seeks a Food Emancipation Proclamation, freeing citizens to opt out of the industrial food fraternity.

Joel Salatin is a farmer, father, author, and speaker whose PolyFace Farms was featured in Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan.  Salatin recently appeared in the documentary film, Food Inc. and has written several books, one titled, Everything I Want to do is Illegal:  War Stories from the Local Food Front.

Note Due to overwhelming response, the venue for the Change We Can Eat! presentation has been moved from Plymouth Congregation to the Lincoln Center, Canyon West Room in Fort Collins, Colorado (417 W. Magnolia, corner of Mulberry and Meldrum)

Seat reservations can be obtained through the Lincoln Center Box Office Tuesdays – Saturdays from noon – 6:00 PM.  There is a suggested donation at the door of $15, cash or check made out to the Front Range Permaculture Institute.  Donations help pay for event expenses and any extra proceeds will further projects of Front Range Permaculture Institute, like Feeding the Families Project by Happy Heart Farms.

“Change We Can Eat!” is hosted by the Front Range Permaculture Institute but is also sponsored by the following organizations and businesses:  Abbondanza Seeds, Bath Nursery, Be Local, Chimney Rock Restaurant, Fort Collins Food Coop, Fort Collins Sustainability Group, Grant Family Farms, Happy Heart Farms, John “The Worm Man,” Mennonite Fellowship, Monroe Farms, Plymouth Congregational, ReDirect Guide, Sustainable Living Fair, Transition Colorado, Waste Not Recycling, Whole Foods, Wolverine Publishing.