Furthering Our Local Knowledge

Upcoming Events:

Anthropology Society, FOLK, the Ecology Club, and GoGreen Alliance present:

Sustainable Food Systems
a symposium on the intersections of Food and Community

Wednesday, March 24th
Odum School of Ecology
10 am -- 3:30 am

There will be a reception, informational tables, and speakers will including:

George Boggs: "Education for alternative social futures: Research in the co-mediation of academic practices and ecological interdependence"

Ben Myers (1000 Faces Coffee): "Slow Coffee"

Sara Callaway (Roots Farm)

Kevin Yates (Hungry Gnome Gardenscapes): "Permaculture design principles and edible landscaping"

Kevin Kirsche (Director of Office of Sustainability): sustainability issues at UGA

Craig Page (PLACE): "Local Food, Local Activists"

Rebecca Agnew Cresswell (Athens Urban Food Collective): "Education for alternative social futures: Research in the co-mediation of academic practices and ecological interdependence"

Enter the Margins...the Colporteurs Program
Named after the bags they carried around their necks and famed for keeping mystery, romance, religious, and cook books circulating among the greater masses in 18th and 19th century France, colporteurs evaded official censorship and evoked adventure and resistance at the margins of society. Colporteurs were rebels of a joyful sort and enabled their clients and patrons to see beyond their present constraints.

Our Inaugural Colporteurs-in-Residence Series:

The Granny Mae Series
Granny Mae Rhoades was a native of backwoods Arkansas. She lived through hard and joyful times “down on the farm” and in the cotton patches of the American South. She lived her married life in Oklahoma sharing love and a wealth of knowledge about gardening and cooking with her family, church, and community. Until she passed away on November 5, 2007 at the age of ninety-three her energy and humor infected everyone around her. The 2008-2009 Colporteurs-in-Residence Series is dedicated in her honor.

Contact us:
folkathens@gmail.com