healthy living A day at the Sustainable Living Fair Find healthy solutions and support for your family LEA HANSON
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omposting, recycling and reusing, water conservation, and gardening are all examples of living more healthily…and more sustainably. Luckily, in northern Colorado the available resources and support are bountiful and easy to access. One way to check out numerous options at once is to attend the Sustainable Living Fair. Learn more online at http://sustainableliving association.org/sustainable-living-fair/. Hosted by the Sustainable Living Association, the 15th Annual Sustainable Living Fair will be held September 20 and 21 at Legacy Park in Fort Collins. The fair offers a weekend filled with solution-based, family-oriented events designed to educate each member of your family. Your admission ticket gives you
health-foodie with training in organic certification inspection. He speaks Saturday at 12:30pm. • MELANIE WARNER Warner is a nationally-renown food industry writer. She is the author of Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal and has worked as a reporter for the New York Times, a senior writer at Fortune magazine, and a blogger for CBSNews.com. She speaks Saturday at 2pm. • LARRY KORN An educator, consultant, editor and author in the fields of permaculture, natural farming, sustainable landscaping and local food production, Korn spent several years working
access to acclaimed speakers, 75 workshops, and more than 250 exhibitors that will spark ideas as well as offer support and solutions for implementing them. This year’s speakers are announced as they confirm and to date include: • GREG MICHAUD Michaud and his wife, Patty, run the Old Feed Store and instruct the Sustainable Living Association’s Backyard Chicken series and Biointensive Gardening Course. Greg is a long-time holistic gardener turned sustainable ecofarmer/
on the Japanese island of Skikoku as a student of Masanobu Fukuoka, farmer, philosopher, and a leader in the worldwide sustainable agriculture movement. He speaks Saturday at noon. • KIM JORDAN Jordan is the CEO and CoFounder of New Belgium Brewing Company. Ms. Jordan and New Belgium have been widely recognized as business role models; she received the EPA’s highest regional award for Environmental Excel-
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lence and in 2012 was Entrepreneur Magazine’s CEO of the Year and CEO of the year by Colorado Biz Magazine. New Belgium was voted in the top ten best places to work by Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. WORKSHOPS This year’s 75 workshops feature education and training in the areas of green living, yoga, renewable energy, eating and growing locally, natural parenting, and green building. Workshops are generally 50 minutes and offer both beginners and advanced an opportunity to learn and grow their knowledge. Review the website (http://sustainablelivingassociation. org/sustainable-living-fair/workshops/) for more details including times offered; some require pre-registration and paying a participation fee although most are free. Taste local cuisine by visiting choice exhibitors and plan to have lunch at the Real Food Market and Beer Garden to feast on fare from a number of locally owned eateries from northern Colorado. Volunteers are welcomed and needed and this year’s team still has space for those looking to be involved in the event and are willing and able to work three- to four-hour shifts Thursday through Monday. Review and submit the online registration form at http://sustainable livingassociation.org/sustainableliving-fair/volunteer/ if you are interested. Volunteers are deeply appreciated and well compensated with free admission, an official fair T-shirt, and shift beverages. Tickets are $10 for a one-day pass and $15 for both days and can be purchased at the fair’s entrance; students can purchase tickets for $5 per day and kids under 12 are free. The fair is open 10am to 7pm, Saturday and Sunday. Exhibits close at 6pm on Saturday and 5pm on Sunday.