May 15, 16 and 17th
How to cook well and simply and what to eat!
$175 • All three days • 5 lectures • 4 cooking demos
One or two day options available at $75 per day

Good nutrition is the foundation of good health. Learn what foods promote health and well-being.

You will learn how to prepare healthy, whole food meals, what superfoods are and their importance in your diet, what food labels mean, easy cooking techniques on “how” cooking foods is important, and shopping for better health and the planet. Learn what foods we should eat that are grown commercial and which are ok to eat that are grown organically. Jan Buhrman John Bagnulo MPH, PHD Localvore Educator

• Plant foods for optimal health
• Know your fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains
• How to incorporate foods and how best to prepare, etc.
• Animal foods that best complement the picture of our diet.
• Nutritional, agricultural, ecological considerations will be viewed with specific menus and who needs them the most. Who best to incorporate and prepare meals in your daily life.
• Case studies from our past experiences
• Pantry Lists, Recipes and Meal Planners to take home

Jan Buhrman • 508 645 5000 • www.kitchenporch.com/culinary-experiences

The ByWays Committee of West Tisbury has produced a map and brochure that identifies many of the ancient ways of the town. For the past two years, the committee, chaired by Ann Bassett, walked many of the town’s ancient ways, studied historical maps and learned the history of these old roads. The committee clarified what protection is in place for these ancient ways and worked with the Planning Board and the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to begin to protect what has not been protected. Protection of an ancient way guarantees public access on foot, hoof or bicycle and limits or restricts use by motor vehicles. Town protection conserves the rural character of these trails and retains a link to the community’s cultural past. The brochures are available at Town Hall, the West Tisbury Library and other places in town.

Go to the Land Conservation section to see the brochure.

Vineyard View, featuring Marnie Stanton, Water Quality Film Producer Channel 13, Monday May 4, 6:00 PM and Tuesday May 5, 6:00 PM

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
id=civilization-food-shortages

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is taking steps to reverse a last-minute Bush-era rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near streams.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday the administration will ask a federal court to abandon the rule that made it easier for coal mining companies to dump waste near streams. If the court agrees, the Obama administration could start drafting a new regulation that better protects waterways and communities sooner than if it sought to rewrite the measure itself.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/
article/ALeqM5giHtT8Pyma73d73FFOJx-evlk65QD97R0FDG4

TROMSOE, Norway - An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said yesterday.

"The northern ice front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has become unstable and the first icebergs have been released," Angelika Humbert, glaciologist at the University of Muenster in Germany, said of European Space Agency satellite images.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/
2009/04/29/giant_chunk_breaks_off_antarctic_shelf/