October Spore - Thought for Food

You're Invited To...

Join the SF Bay Area Evolvers at an inspiring and delicious Community Cook-In, in which we will co-create a healthy meal, learn about superfoods, hear from local food activists and innovators, and screen the trailer for the upcoming documentary Edible City, with Directors present for Q&A.

6:36pm-11:11pm, Oct 27, at Sera Phi (1117 Howard St, SF)

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event details:

6:36-7:11: Mingling

7:11-7:30: Opening Meditation and Announcements

7:30-8:30: Community Cook-In & Superfood demo
We got the idea for a 'Community Cook-In' based on the story of stone soup. Each person who attends should bring one ingredient beginning with the first letter of your name (for example, Regina can bring radishes). We'll provide a soup base, and use the ingredients brought by all to create a salad and to add to the soup.

Additionally, Superfood Scientist Ananda (founder of the SeraPhi center where we'll be meeting) will do a hands-on demo of one of his magical creations while explaining his psychi-science and unveiling new discoveries... beyond the beyond.

8:38-9:09: We'll bless & eat our creations, with an informal conversation with a few local food personalities (TBD).

9:11-10:10: Edible City trailer and Q&A with directors

10:23-11:11: Sound Bath on the Vibrating Floor

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About this month's theme, from Daniel Pinchbeck:

"In the last fifty years, the meteoric rise of agribusiness has wreaked havoc upon our global food supply. Corporate entities like Monsanto and Cargill are wiping out agricultural diversity with monoculture crops, bankrupting small farmers with unsustainable practices, toxifying our waterways with pesticides and fertilizers, treating animals cruelly, and endangering the web of life with genetically modified foods.

But a growing movement is striking back and taking action to maintain our food security in the 21st Century. These “greenhorns” are creating CSAs, tending rooftop gardens, building aquaponic systems, learning permaculture principles, starting Transition Towns and eco-villages, urban homesteading, saving seed varieties, and practicing slow food ethics to ensure agricultural sustainability. In this Spore, we will, explore and discuss the alternative food networks cropping up in our local communities, as well the importance of nutrition in our lives. Spores may want to look at current FDA dietary recommendations and contrast them with the rising interest in organic/live foods, ayurvedic diets, superfoods, healing herbs, and more."

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For questions or to get involved with facilitating and planning events like thisw, email reginagelfo (at) gmail (dot) com