Food Politics & West Michigan Women
This month the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council has been featuring area women, urban and rural, and the roles they have played in agricultural politics over the past century. Scroll on down for more information, stay in touch via our website: (http://www.ggrwhc.org), and join us tomorrow for the next in our series!
"Women of the Ridge: Handling the Business and Politics of West Michigan Agriculture"
7:00pm, TOMORROW, March 22nd, 2012
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Free & Open to the Public
Reception following
by Cindy Laug, Grand Valley State University
Women in agriculture were often an untapped resource before the twenty years of the Apple Smorgasbord, but they became "fearsome" in 1972 when they stepped away from their kitchens and orchards to support family farms in a very different and political way. With the organization of Women for the Survival of Agriculture in Michigan, celebrating its 40th anniversary, women moved to center-stage.
Meet some of the players tomorrow as we celebrate 100 years of women in agriculture in West Michigan! We will have exhibit materials in the foyer. Come early and stay late for talk during the reception!
Thanks to Sharon Hanks for the following story: http://therapidian.org/women-fruit-ridge-and-their-essential-role-growing-economic-powerhouse-are-recalled-thursday-evening
NEXT WEEK: 2012 Women's History Month Finale!
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
5:00 pm Hors d'oeuvres & wine ticket bar ($5/glass); 5:30 pm: program
Women's City Club, Lower level auditorium, 254 Fulton Street
Free & Open to the Public
JOIN! Current members of the GGRWHC will receive one complimentary wine ticket; wine ticket bar ($5/glass). Let us know you're coming! info@ggrwhc.org or (616) 234-3603!
After complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a champagne toast honoring the centennial of the Girl Scouts, we'll have a sneak peek at Jaye Beeler & Dianne Carroll Burdick's new book!
Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip
Writer Jaye Beeler and photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick will bring us into the present when we celebrate their upcoming book. Traveling 2000 miles over the course of a year, they met dozens of enterprising women farmers and producers whose stories continue to squash myths that only men are farmers.
Hope to see you and your guests at the Women's History Month Finale on March 29th! Help us plan--let us know you're coming! info@ggrwhc.org or (616) 234-3603!
EARLIER THIS MONTH!
If you missed Jayson Otto's program, get a sense of it via Garret Ellison's and Sharon Hanks' newsy accounts. Check them out-and reward our news outlets for attending to local history! http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/03/how_female_leaders_changed_the.html and http://therapidian.org/join-us-thursday-night-learn-about-early-years-fulton-street-farmers-market
Join us & support the work of the GGRWHC!
