In its third year, Rooting DC promotes gardening as a low-cost way to provide food for families, particularly in areas where fresh, affordable food is hard to come by because of a lack of supermarkets (such as East of the River). Plus, healthy diets are good for your body and for the planet.
This year we are excited to be focusing on Food Production, Distribution, Preparation and Preservation. One workshop track will focus on teaching how to teach gardening to kids and will be led by experienced professionals from the Washington Youth Garden and City Blossoms. There will also be presentations that touch on growing ethnic foods from Africa, Central America and the Caribbean, nutrition, food demos, basic gardening and urban agriculture, and emergency food resources. Some workshops will be in Spanish.
The keynote speakers include Joe Nasr and DC Central Kitchen's Robert Egger (one of the "founding fathers" of urban agriculture). There will also be a presentation from Tony Cohen of the Historic Button Farm at Seneca Creek State Park, Maryland. This incredibly unique facility has an "Underground Railroad Immersion Experience."
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Shireen Klein Karimi
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