Food Matters: Bringing the Food Economy Home Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 pm

Small Communities-Big Ideas at Lunenburg Library One big idea that affects everyone is the quality and safety of the food we eat and feed our families. The spring series of Small Communities-Big Ideas, Food Matters, will examine the many facets of food including food security and food awareness- from global agribusiness to the buy local campaign. The series begins Tuesday March 23 at the Lunenburg Library with guest presenter Errol Sharpe, co-publisher of Fernwood Books Ltd., who will discuss Bringing the Food Economy Home. Drawing from the recently published Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness by Steven Gorelick, Todd Merrifield and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Sharpe will examine such topics as food and community, food security, the ecology of food production and others. Bringing the Food Economy Home questions the continuing trend toward big agribusiness and makes a case for local food production as a viable means of supplementing the existing food system. The book suggests a more conscientious and active role for people at the local level of food production. Sharpe is making copies of the book available for people to purchase in time so they can read it before the night of his presentation. Call Lunenburg Library for more information. Active in publishing since the early 1970s, Sharpe launched Fernwood Books Ltd., in 1978. He co-founded of Garamond Press in 1982 and began Fernwood Publishing in 1991. He works from his office in Black Point, Nova Scotia publishing critical non-fiction that challenges existing scholarship on issues of race, economics, trade, globalization, gender, labour and numerous other social issues. Lunenburg Library, 19 Pelham Street Tuesday, March 23, 7:30 pm All welcome; call 634-8008 or email info@southshorepubliclibraries to reserve a seat. -- South Shore Public Libraries www.southshorepubliclibraries.ca (902) 543-2548 / 1-877-455-2548