Summer Study Tour of Sustainable Agriculture and Slow Food in Switzerland and Italy

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jim Freeman

Tour Slow Food In Europe This Summer

August 2010: Announcing a study tour that focuses for a week on biodynamic agriculture with Nicolai Fuchs  AND COLLEAGUES at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, and a week studying Slow Food at the University of Gastronomic Sciences and the University of Florence in Italy.   Henning Sehmsdorf (of S&S Homestead Farm on Lopez Island) is co-teaching the course with Professor Gigi Berardi (of WWU Huxley College of the Environment). The study includes a three day intensive on S&S Homestead Farm, including Goethean art and science with guest lecturers Janet and Barry Lia, and a closing seminar on Inspiration Farm in Whatcom County.
See:  http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/summer/swissitaly/index.shtml and contact Prof. Berardi for details (gigi.berardi@wwu.edu). Feb 1 is the first deadline. Space is limited.

About Jim Freeman

Jim is a real estate broker and licensed loan originator in Kitsap County, WA. He is also an angel investor in a software company, a children's toy product development and sales company, a biogas energy company, a CSA member and a pastured poultry operation on an Olympic Peninsula certified organic farm. As a business owner and investor Jim knows the central importance importance of local agriculture and looks to buy local food and invest in local food producers and processors whenever possible.
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