SUSTAINABLE FOOD & GARDENING FESTIVAL

Saturday, April 24, 2010
Noon – 4:30 at Finley Center

This event is a FIRST. It is about anything and everything you may need to grow your own food, buy it from a local farmer or have local food served you.
Target Audience:  about 1000 – 1500 countywide general public is expected to attend. All city and county officials will be invited.
Cost:   FREE to the public attending and farmers & vendors participating.

Co-Sponsors:  Community Action Partnership and the City of Santa Rosa.

Event Will Include LOTS of information:
23 booths including but not limited to:  
 Information & help on growing your own food,
 Food growing books inexpensively priced
 Where to find space, plants, soil & mulch, water conservation & gray water systems, worms, and clubs & free tools.
 How-to replace your lawn & programs paying you to replace your lawn.

•Career and job opportunities in the local food sector.
•Finding a local farmer to grow your food for you.
•Finding a restaurant or caterer that serves local food.

• 30 thirty-minute presentations including but not limited to:
 Master gardeners answering the most frequently asked questions on growing your own food.
 Dealing with gophers and gardening with worms.
 Plants for beneficial insects & pollinators and hummingbird & butterfly gardening.
 Edible landscaping.
 Herbs – first aid and kitchen gardens.
 Lawn replacement – programs & how-to.
 Web sites that help find local food and local growing food help.
 Grass fed vs. factory-farmed meat.
 Learn about and taste Sonoma county cheeses.
 Easy (and healthy) treats to prepare at home.

Event will have a Farmers Market exclusively with Sonoma county farmers.

Celebrate the last hour of the Event with music and dance – Come to a Hoe-Down