Sunday Sept. 18^th, 2011
11 AM - 6 PM
Columbia College
Student Commons
1001 Rogers Street
Columbia, MO
-A FREE event-

Grounding Sustainability in Relocalization: The nuts and bolts and nuts and berries of restoring local and regional food supply systems.

"We, The People of Missouri, can no longer independently feed ourselves." For decades, politicians and corporate agriculture have overseen the demolition of our commonwealth food supply systems. Consequently, not one Missouri county can grow, process, or manufacture the minimum required to maintain social cohesion. If geopolitical push comes to shove, we're toast.

In this age of economic hardships and high unemployment, redesigning our food supply system in favor of local producers and local processors can create local jobs and restore food security. We can rebuild economies through independent, sustainable, local food production.

"How long, how many, how much will it take to independently feed ourselves again?" The answers are quantifiable and call for the practical mechanics of a restoration plan and time table. A populist, end-run strategy offers the only hope to eliminate the corporate stranglehold on Missouri's agricultural policies.

A bioregional, permaculture approach links the return of energy sovereignty to food security and champions a non-partisan restoration ethos. Sustainability must be grounded in objective reality through relocalization!

Galen Chadwick was born in Boone County in 1949 and has been trying Establishment patience ever since. A founding member of the Round Oak Community near Ashland, Galen has, over the decades, been a jack of many trades, from starting yoga ashrams to prospecting in the Australian Outback to developing moisture metrics techniques for broad acre crops.