Farmer Joel Salatin delivers the 2013 Dempsey Lecture

Farmer Joel Salatin believes our country’s food system is in a state of crisis — from nutrient deficiency to pollution to animal abuse to rural economic decay — and that all of these issues can be solved by one thing: local food.

It’s not a surprising statement from the self-described “lunatic farmer” whose roles in Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” and the film, “Food, Inc.,” have turned him into one of the most prominent spokespeople for the local and sustainable food movements.

Salatin will bring his ideas to Willamette University Feb. 12 when he delivers the 2013 Dempsey Lecture. Titled “Local Food to the Rescue,” the lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in Hudson Hall at the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Who: Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm (featured in Michael Pollan’s The Ominvore’s Dilemma)

Where: Willamette University, Hudson Hall at the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center

When: Feb. 12^th, 7:30pm.

Free!

See this link for more info: http://www.willamette.edu/news/library/2013/01/dempsey_lecture.html