Food, Fishing & Farming: A Free Range Poetry Buffet
DATE: Wednesday April 29, 2015
LOCATION: Haliburton Community Organic Farm, 741 Haliburton Rd, Victoria BC
TIME: 7:00-9:00pm (doors open at 6:00 for farm tours & farmstand purchases)
Come on down to Haliburton Community Organic Farm for an evening of organic poetic sustenance, in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Four delicious readers from all points of the culinary compass will converge at one of Victoria's most productive models of urban agriculture. Brian Brett, Rhona McAdam, D.C. Reid and Linda
Rogers have diverse relationships with food from the land and sea and will entertain you with their mouth-watering poetry.
There will be books to buy, fresh organic produce and snacks available to purchase and nibble on, and an opportunity for people to have a look around this amazing farm, home to 7 organic
farming businesses, a biodiversity (wetlands restoration) project and a nutritional consultancy. You can sample the farm's wares and consider subscribing to its weekly organic food box.
Admission by donation, $3-$5: all money collected goes to programs that support the farm's mandate as a demonstration farm, mentorship for young farmers and model of biodiversity.
The fisherman: D.C. Reid is a well
known fishing enthusiast and
columnist, author of six books of poetry,
one novel, and four non-fiction flyfishing titles. His watery pastime has
seeped into his poetry and will perform
a few poetic backflips to delight
audiences. His current book of poems,
You Shall Have No Other, is an
interactive marvel.
The farmer: Brian Brett, whose poetry is
a sensual bouquet of textures and
flavours, writes from the earth he made
known in his memoir Trauma Farm, a
testament to rural living. For 25 years
he and his wife Sharon have worked at
sustaining a small, mixed farm on Salt
Spring Island, growing everything from
sheep to garlic to ornamental willows to
eggs. He's published 12 books - poetry,
fiction and two memoirs.
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The nutritionist: Rhona McAdam has
wended her way through food and
poetry for many years, through her
Iambic Cafe blog, her education in Italy
and her training in holistic nutrition.
She's a longtime volunteer at
Haliburton Farm. She's published 10
books including nonfiction (Digging the
City: An Urban Agriculture
Manifesto), and food poetry (The
Earth's Kitchen). Her most recent
collection is Ex-ville.
Poet of milk &honey: Linda Rogers
punctuates her constant foraging with
poems and stories with organic
ingredients. Almost famous for her
bread and soup, she has caught large
fish, raised sheep, grown many
delicious vegetables and stalked the
wild asparagus. Rogers believes in
cooking and writing from the heart,
wild things, no recipes. Great Chinese
food is featured in her new novel,
Tempo Rubato, second in The Empress
Trilogy.