[FLPERMACULTURE] Fwd: Amy Goldman to talk at Cornell Plantations Lecture Series

[Michael Burns]

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Subject: Fwd: Amy Goldman to talk at Cornell Plantations Lecture Series From: 
  "Krishna Ramanujan" <ksr32 at cornell.edu>
Date:    Tue, October 17, 2006 10:28 am
To:      "Karryn" <karryn at ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us>
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>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:19:16 -0400
>To: (Recipient list suppressed)
>From: Kevin Moss <km274 at cornell.edu>
>Subject: Amy Goldman to talk at Cornell Plantations Lecture Series
>
>For Immediate Release
>October 16, 2006
>Contact: Sonja Skelly, Director of Education
>Office: (607) 255-2406
>E-Mail: sms92 at cornell.edu
>
>HEIRLOOM VEGETABLE ADVOCATE AMY GOLDMAN TO TALK AT CORNELL
>PLANTATIONS LECTURE SERIES
>
>ITHACA, N.Y. – Amy Goldman, author and gardener, will deliver the Class of
1945 Lecture at Cornell University on Wednesday, October 25th.  Goldman’s
lecture, “Seeds in Our Hands," is the fourth
>installment in the annual Fall Lecture Series sponsored by Cornell
Plantations.  The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice
>Statler Auditorium in Statler Hall, on the Cornell campus.
>Admission is free and open to the general public.
>
>In her lecture, Goldman will address the importance of preserving our
vanishing vegetable heritage.  The talk will be illustrated by
>examples and photographs from her two award-winning books: Melons For The
Passionate Grower, and The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide To
Pumpkins, Squashes, And Gourds.
>
>Amy Goldman works to preserve the agricultural heritage and genetic diversity
of the world’s fruits and vegetables.  Every summer, she grows hundreds of
different varieties of heirloom vegetables in her gardens in upstate New
York.  Her primary purpose is to cultivate and save the seeds of the most
noteworthy and delicious of these
>endangered species.  Known to viewers of Martha Stewart Living
>and PBS, this “vegetable rights activist” has written for Organic Gardening
and has been profiled in such publications as The New York Times and House &
Garden.  She also serves on the Board
>of Seed Savers Exchange, New York Botanical Garden and New York
>Restoration Project and has created a line of gourd, squash, and melon bronze
sculptures.
>
>A book sale and signing will follow the lecture, highlighting the author's
books, Melons For The Passionate Grower and The Compleat Squash: A Passionate
Grower's Guide To Pumpkins, Squashes, And
>Gourds. Ample free parking is available after 5 p.m. in the parking garage on
Hoy Road, just a short walk from Statler Hall. Handicapped access is
available at the back of the Statler.  The final lecture in this series is
“The Livable Landscape” by author and designer Rick Darke on Wednesday,
November 8th.  All lectures take place at
>7:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium.
>
>Cornell Plantations is the arboretum, botanical
>garden, and natural areas of Cornell University,
>and is a member of Ithaca’s Discovery Trail
>partnership ( www.discoverytrail.com.)
>Plantations is open free of charge to the public
>during daylight hours. Limited parking is
>available. For more information on Cornell
>Plantations' gardens and events, stop by our
>Garden Gift Shop, call 607-255-2400, or visit
>Plantations’ website at
><http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/>
>www.plantations.cornell.edu.
>
>
>--30--
>
>Kevin Moss
>Community Outreach Coordinator
>Cornell Plantations
>One Plantations Road
>Ithaca NY 14850-2765
>phone: (607)   254-7430
>fax:     (607)   255-0187
>  www.plantations.cornell.edu
>
>


-- 
Krishna Ramanujan
Life Sciences Writer
Cornell News Service
312 College Ave
ph: 607-255-3290
fax: 607-255-5373
email: ksr32 at cornell.edu


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