Upcoming Events
Foraging Walk at Steepletop
Have you ever wanted to learn more about the abundant resources of the forest? Join Elspeth Hay, author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food, for a family-friendly foraging walk at the Berkshire Natural Resources Council’s Steepletop Reserve. From 1-3pm Friday, July 11th, Hay will lead us in an exploration of the edible world that’s hiding in plain sight all around us.
Book Launch Party!
On Tuesday, July 15, Elspeth’s first book will be released into the world! Come celebrate this huge milestone and send her off into the next few months of book talks, readings, and interviews with a good solid evening of nutty fun. Tickets are free, but required. Please use this link to RSVP on Eventbrite.
NNGA Talk: Feed Us with Trees
How would you like to live in world where we humans produce an abundance of food and revitalize the life around us? A world where our species plays a key role in increasing rather than decreasing biodiversity, where we store more carbon than we emit? Where we reverse dead-zones and topsoil loss, and where diet-related diseases become exceptions, not the norm?
This world is not a fantasy: it is the future. All over the northern hemisphere, humans once tended nut trees like oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts to produce abundant food and in doing so created thriving ecosystems for countless other species. Join Elspeth Hay, author of Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food, to learn why it's time to bring these nut trees back as staple crops, and how in tending our keystone nut trees, we can revitalize our homes.
Reading at the Truro Library
Join Elspeth for a reading from her new book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food, due out with New Society Publishers this summer. Details coming soon.
Reading at the Orleans Library
Join Elspeth for a reading from her new book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. More details coming soon.
Book Talk at the Provincetown Monument
Join Elspeth for a talk on her new book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. More details coming soon!
Feed Us with Trees Talk at MOFGA's Common Ground Fair
Join me at the 49th annual Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) Common Ground Fair for a presentation in the Hayloft Tent! This is one of my favorite agricultural events each year—so much fun and so much to learn. I’m very excited to be a presenter for the first time. Look for the details below in the schedule of events!
Title: The Future is Nuts
Description: How would you like to live in a world where we produce an abundance of food? Where biodiversity is increasing rather than disappearing? Where more carbon is being stored in the ground than is being pumped out of it? Where dead-zones and topsoil loss are memories, and where diet-related diseases are exceptions, not the norm? This world is not a fantasy: it is the future. All over the northern hemisphere, humans once tended nut trees like oaks, chestnuts, and hazelnuts to produce abundant food, and in doing so we created thriving ecosystems for countless other species. Join Elspeth to learn why it's time to bring these nut trees back as staple crops, more about the work that's already begun, and how in tending our keystone nut trees, we can revitalize our world.
Venue: The Hayloft Tent
Water Keepers
Water Keepers is the first gathering of a new initiative: Commons Keepers. From June 11-14, co-founders Elspeth Hay and Jaye Johnson invite a group of young women from the Outer Cape and beyond to explore what it means to become a modern-day commoner: a water keeper. For hundreds of years, commoners have been stewards of collectively managed resources; today, we're remembering and reconnecting sacred and innovative approaches to caring for our shared land, water, and air—and to caring for one another. Learn more at commonskeepers.org.