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These three esteemed members of the DEPT of HOMESTEAD SECURITY (from left to right: Linda Faillace, Jessica Prentice, and Sandor Katz) recently traveled to Washington DC for events including a panel discussion led by Slow Food, DC at Busboys and Poets Books and Café and to attend and speak at The Weston A Price Foundation Conference.
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm
Linda Faillace is a writer, shepherdess, songwriter, and owner of a country store dedicated to supporting local farmers and locally grown food. She has studied mad cow disease since the early 1990s. A champion of organic and sustainable farming, farmer’s rights, and strong local communities, Linda lives with her husband, Larry, and their three children in East Warren, Vermont.
Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection
Jessica Prentice is a professional chef, food activist, speaker, and founder of Wise Food Ways. She is also a cofounder of Locavores and the Eat Local Challenge (www.locavores.com). She teaches classes in the San Francisco Bay Area that empower students to cook nourishing meals based on locally grown, ethically sound ingredients. She lives in Richmond, California.
The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements
Sandor Ellix Katz, also the author of Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (Chelsea Green, 2003), travels widely teaching people simple fermentation techniques. A native of New York City, he now gardens, saves seeds, tends goats and chickens, and produces biodiesel from used fry oil in an off-the-grid community in the hills of Tennessee.
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
Heather C. Flores, a certified permaculture designer, holds a BA degree in ecology, education, and the arts from Goddard College. She offers environmental landscape design and consultation services. Flores’ next project is to use low-tech performance arts to bridge cultural and economic gaps in environmental education. She lives in Oregon.