One day left to visit expo!

The weather outside if frightful, but the FamilyFarmed.Org Expo is delightful!
I went to the exp today in Chicago and my head is happily whirling.
To quote my husband when we left, "I'm full of hope."
Sunday is your last chance to go to this Disneyland for adults (but kids can go, too!) at the Cultural Center in Chicago.
In the coming weeks, I'll be profiling a lot of the companies and people I met today, and including a ton of photos of them from the event. (We don't have th pics uploaded yet.)
Fun reasons you should go:

• You'll make up the ticket price in coupons and samples.


• Never tried sustainable mead? This is your day, my man.


• This is going to be the largest group of nice people you've ever seen in one city.

Serious reasons you should go:

• You can support family-owned farms and organizations, the people who aren't the big businesses that ran everything into the ground and demanded bailouts.


• You can find local sources for food, from liquor to cheese. The less gas it takes to get your food to you, the less gas we're using and more gas prices plummet.


• You're going to create a connection with organic and sustainable foods. How much more does your food mean to you when you know that the meat was pasture-raised AND you met the guy who works there? Eating is personal again.

We are just so delighted with what we learned. We'll be buying for these people, learning more about them and generally leading better lives because of this. Laugh all you want, but this was a wonderful, great day.
We got there a little late so we only had about four hours there. Sunday's programs seem to be even more consumer-oriented (including how to do this local and organic eating on the cheap), so this is a great day to go.
Plan for parking, bring a notebook for jotting down recipes and notes, and bring a bag for samples, fliers and whatnot.
Click on the Family Farmed.org Expo link about for details about hour, how to get there, etc. This is worth it. You'll have a lot more to give thanks for on Thursday when you know about the good work people are doing.