Fired-up for fall
Sept.15, 2011 Volume 4, Issue 5
A large crowd gathers at the TCA for the lecture series.
In the last newsletter we provided detailed information about the annual Fall Lecture Series co-sponsored by UNM-Taos and SMU-in-Taos. The series is off to a great start with over 200 in attendance at Dr. Greg Cajete’s lecture on Native American Astronomy. Coming right around the corner is our weeklong harvest celebration. This idea is an outgrowth from last year’s lecture series where the most well-attended evening was the night where agriculture and local food production was on the menu. From that we decided to offer a variety of workshops for people to be able to focus on particular interests which then grew to the idea of a whole festival.
The Wednesday, September 21st lecture at the TCA will feature Miguel Santistevan who has a BS in Biology, an MS in Ecology and is a PhD candidate in Biology. He has titled his talk, “Models for Survival in Uncertain Times: traditional agriculture, acequias, and food security”. If that doesn’t satisfy your appetite on Sunday, September 25th from 10am-4pm the T aos Harvest Partnership is sponsoring a Fall Harvest Festival at the UNM-Taos Klauer campus from 10am- 4pm. There will be food, music, activities, vendor booths and a number of workshops to choose from. The menu of workshops includes water catchment, solar energy, earthbag home construction, preserving herbs, picking wild foods, selling locally grown food to restaurants, adobe brick making, and “finding your roots” genealogy research tips.
The entertainment line-up includes Juan Rivera, aka “Taos Crooner”, and performances you won’t see every day from the likes of UNM-Taos All-Stars and the Taos High School “Earthletes”.
The last ingredient in this weeklong harvest celebration is the Sept. 28th Harvest Reception: “ A T aste of T aos” being held in the beautiful setting at SMU-in-Taos, Ft. Burgwin . This will be an evening to experience dishes prepared from locally grown produce while being entertained by the Taos High School Poetry Slam performers and also, a piano recital by CJ Bernal from Taos Pueblo.
The mission of the Taos Harvest Partnership is “to integrate people and resources related to environmental sustainability in T aos County and beyond in order to strengthen and celebrate our collective efforts to live in harmony with the earth and each other, both locally and globally. As we harvest the many resources we already enjoy, we also sow the seeds for a healthier and stronger future.”
To segue from that, we want our community to always remember that this is YOUR community college library and we are here to help you plant the seeds of research and information, help you fertilize them by providing instruction, and guide you through the process of harvesting the information and resources. The UNM-T aos library can provide workshops for your class, your organization or your business. Contact us to see how we can “strengthen and celebrate our collective efforts” and help you “harvest the many resources” available to you through the library.
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