Sustainable Farming Expert Speaks at Jaffrey Forum Tonight

The Amos Fortune Forum will be welcoming their sixth speaker tonight, August 14th. Noted "new farming" expert and Agrarian, Severine Fleming will deliver a talk entitled, "A New Economy on the Land."

Severine is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in the Champlain Valley of New York. She is founder and director of The Greenhorns, a grassroots cultural organization with the mission to promote, recruit and support a growing movement of young farmers and ranchers in America.

The entering generation of Agrarians has demonstrated a bold vision to build thousands of farm businesses for local food security. We need many more to succeed. Many who try are confounded when they try to find durable land access and tenure. Severine argues that we need to design and enact new frameworks for community land-ownership. All of us benefit from the revival of these farm-steads, and the initiatives of young farmers, orchardists, and dairymen and women. Today, the macro-economy imposes extraction, speculation and degradation of our land, but that will not work tomorrow. How can our water-shed, our food-shed, and the historic cultural landscape inform the new economy we need? How can eaters reconnect meaningfully with both the eco-system and economic system that will sustain the quality of the places we love?

The Amos Fortune Forum is presented at the Old Meetinghouse in historic Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire, approximately 2.5 miles west of Downtown Jaffrey. Speakers are presented at 8pm sharp each Friday during the summer. As is the custom of the Forum, no admission is charged, however, donations are accepted. After each forum, a brief reception is held with each speaker at The First Church in Jaffrey Parish Hall, directly across from the Old Meetinghouse. Information for the Forum can be found at www.amosfortune.com, Facebook (facebook.com/amosfortuneforum) or at Twitter (@amosforum). The telephone number is (641) 715-3900 Extension 742251.

The next Amos Fortune Forum speaker is New Hampshire bird expert and author, Eric Masterson. He will speak at the Forum on Friday, August 21st.

Amos Fortune Forum, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, has been providing a platform for speakers to express ideas, concepts, information and history to thousands of curious and engaged citizens since 1946. It has been internationally recognized as one of the most important and influential speakers' forums in the world.

The Amos Fortune Forum, now in its 69th season, is free to the public. Operating expenses are partially offset by a generous annual bequest from the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, as well as by contributions from residents of the Monadnock Region and beyond.

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