Life Classes explore local food
Margaret Ovitt, the Membership Coordinator for FIG, recently reported to the Board on two Life Classes that she offered in 2009. The spring class was called, “What’s For Dinner,” and included reading Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemna, a viewing of the film King Corn, and a tour of Good Hope Gardens. Good Hope Gardens is a local example of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and is a family farm that has been operated by the Decounter family in Good Hope, Illinois, across at least four generations.
The fall class read Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally and also watched severall short films. Margaret explained that, “I also had everyone bring a local dish to class one day as well as prepare one local meal a week and report back on where the food from that meal came from. The class all submitted a recipe or two containing local foods, and I am in the process of making a class recipe collection.” She had a total of 27 students in the two classes.
