{"id":1899,"date":"2009-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2009-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T04:00:00","slug":"food-and-farming-week-underway-at-emu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2009\/food-and-farming-week-underway-at-emu\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Food and Farming Week’ Underway at EMU"},"content":{"rendered":"
EMU is holding its annual “Food and Farming Week” Monday through Saturday, Mar. 23-28. <\/p>\n
Activities will open with a presentation 8 p.m. Monday, Mar. 23 in Suter Science Center room 109 on “food issues in Africa.” The presenter is Debbie Scott, who recently completed a three-year term of service in Nairobi, Kenya with Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, Pa. <\/p>\n
Ms. Scott served with ACORD, a pan-African organization working for social justice and equality. Her focus was on agricultural trade policy analysis. <\/p>\n
Author Mark Winne will discuss his recent book, Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty<\/em>, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 24, in the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the University Commons. Facilitating students are from Dr. Dan Wessner’s pre-law capstone course, “Law, Values and Worldview.” <\/p>\n Res Judicata, EMU’s pre-law<\/a> student organization, is co-sponsoring the event. <\/p>\n A petting zoo will be set up on the front lawn of campus, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 26. Bread baking will take place 7 p.m. that day in the Maplewood residence hall lounge. <\/p>\n Persons can meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Mar. 28 in front of the University Commons to bike or carpool to the Harrisonburg Downtown Farmers Market. A workday will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in the EMU garden at the corner of Mt. Clinton Pike and College Ave. <\/p>\n For more information on Food and Farming Week, contact first-year EMU Student Daniel H. Sigmans, daniel.sigmans@emu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EMU is holding its annual “Food and Farming Week” Monday through Saturday, Mar. 23-28. Activities will open with a presentation 8 p.m. Monday, Mar. 23 in Suter Science Center room ... read more about ‘Food and Farming Week’ Underway at EMU<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5643,5595,4513],"tags":[11346,11734,11766],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-sustainability","category-history","category-student-life","tag-food-and-farming-week","tag-pre-law","tag-res-judicata"],"yoast_head":"\n