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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Common Table: AgFest 2009\nEvent Url: http://www.sa
 cramento365.com/event/detail/39463/Common_Table_AgFest_2009\nEvent Date Be
 gin: 2009-07-11\nEvent Date End: 2009-07-11\n\nSlow Food Sacramento is ple
 ased to present Common Table\, a day of tours and workshops culminating in
  a sit-down gourmet dinner at the Fremont Community Garden. The goal is to
  raise awareness about local urban gardening and food programs\, as well a
 s to advocate for improved city\, county and state food policies that enab
 le more locally grown foods in urban locations.\nThe event benefits the Sa
 cramento Hunger Coalition\, an organization that helps bring food to the p
 oor\, and the Sacramento Area Community Garden Coalition\, an organization
  dedicated to expanding urban locations for growing fruits and vegetables.
 \nThe evening activity includes a three-course dinner of fresh\, seasonal 
 faire catered by Magpie Caters. The outside family style feast will be hel
 d at the Fremont Community Garden\, a beautiful setting amidst thriving fr
 uit and vegetable plants. Dinner speaker Braham Ahmadi of Peoples Grocery 
 in Oakland will share his insights on Innovative Solutions for Food Justic
 e. Ahmadi is a nationally recognized leader in the movement to spearhead g
 rowing fresh food in urban locations for low-income residents.\nIn additio
 n\, the Avid Reader will be on hand selling a variety of books on gardenin
 g and the urban food movement\, and a live auction will feature an array o
 f culinary opportunities\, including local gourmet restaurants that will o
 ffer private dinners\, private gardening consultations and an opportunity 
 to dine out with a prominent food critic Blair Anthony Robertson. \n\nTher
 e will be activities during the day that include a variety of workshops re
 lating to community gardening\, backyard organic gardening\, composting\, 
 food gleaning and local food swap programs. The Sacramento Hunger Coalitio
 n will host 'What's 'Growing' On\,' a tour of local community gardens and 
 places with access to locally grown foods. The organization will also host
  Hunger 101\, an interactive session to learn how the poor cope with lack 
 of availability of fresh foods.\nA special showing of the movie 'FRESH' at
  the Guild Theater\, 2828 35th Street\, Sacramento\, will air at 2:30 and 
 4 p.m. 'FRESH' celebrates the farmers\, thinkers and business people acros
 s America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rap
 id transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model and confront
 ed the consequences: food contamination\, environmental pollution\, deplet
 ion of natural resources\, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier\, sustain
 able alternatives\, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food
  and our planet. Among several main characters\, 'FRESH' features urban fa
 rmer and activist\, Will Allen\, the recipient of MacArthurs 2008 Genius A
 ward\; sustainable farmer and entrepreneur\, Joel Salatin\, made famous by
  Michael Pollans book\, The Omnivores Dilemma\; and supermarket owner\, Da
 vid Ball\, who challenges a Wal-Mart dominated economy. Hosted by\, with a
 n introduction to the film\, Environment and Agriculture Taskforce (EAT) S
 acramento\n\nStart time: Tours & workshops\, 8:30am-3:00pm \nMovie\, 2:30p
 m & 4:00pm\nDinner\, 5:30pm
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SUMMARY:Common Table: AgFest 2009
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