SUSTAINABLE GROWING,
HEIRLOOM SEEDS &
PROTECTING OUR POLLINATORS
with Janisse Ray
SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, July 24, 2014, 7:00pm
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University Center, Raccoon Mountain Room
$5 for Wild Ones members
$15 for the general public
Award-winning author, naturalist and activist Janisse Ray will give a talk in Chattanooga about heirloom seeds, agrodiversity and the future of food.
Ray is the author of five books of literary nonfiction, including her first, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. The author advocates for the protection and restoration of the pine flatwoods of the South. The book earned Ray the Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction, an American Book Award, the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. In 2002, the Georgia Center for the Book named it a book all Georgians should read.
Her latest book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, is a look at heirloom seeds and the future of food.
She was the John and Renee Grisham writer-in-residence for the 2003-04 academic year at the University of Mississippi. Currently she is the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Montana. She is on the faculty of Chatham University's low-residency MFA program and is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Ray attempts to live a simple, sustainable life on an organic farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters and their daughter.
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