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FUN-FILLED, FAMILY-ORIENTED SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE EVENTS TEMPLE GRANDIN JOEL SALATIN ED BEGLEY JR WILL ALLEN BRYAN WELCH PAUL STAMETS PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON JUNE 2-3, 2012 SEVEN SPRINGS, PENNSYLVANIA SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2012 WELCOME TO THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIRS! MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine has been helping folks live self-reliant, sustainable, meaningful lives for more than 40 years. With an audience of more than 3 million readers worldwide, it is the largest and longest-running environmental lifestyle magazine on the planet. BRINGING THE MAGAZINE TO LIFE! The MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIRS products and services, including: books, are fun-fi lled, family-oriented sustainable tools, seeds, crafts, organic foods, clothes, lifestyle events that feature dozens of solar gadgets and more! practical, hands-on demonstrations and Programming at the MOTHER EARTH workshops from the leading authorities NEWS FAIR isn’t just for adults. A full on: Renewable Energy, Small-Scale slate of exciting, informative workshops is Agriculture, Gardening, Green Building, Green dedicated for children ages 17 and under, Transportation and Natural Health. who are admitted free to the event. Whether In between sessions, attendees enjoy it is learning the fundamentals of gardening an array of entertainment options, or beekeeping, or learning how to make (and organic local food and beverages, as taste!) homemade ice cream, the well as outdoor gardening and livestock MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR demonstrations. Plus, they save on great “Tree House” is chock-full of deals from dozens of regional and national engaging, eco-friendly activities vendors that feature sustainable lifestyle for children of all ages. www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com COME SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT PUYALLUP, WASH. June 2-3, 2012 Stay up to date online at Puyallup Fairgrounds www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com Saturday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-7:00 PM Sunday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM • Order discounted tickets and fi nd lodging THREE • Get up-to-date program information SEVEN SPRINGS, PA. DAYS! • Check out our exhibitors September 21-23, 2012 • View photos and watch videos from Seven Springs Mountain Resort previous Fairs Friday Fair hours: 12:00 PM-7:00 PM • Learn about our sponsors Saturday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-7:00 PM • Sign up for our free Sunday Fair hours: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM online e-newsletter • Enter to win free Purchase your tickets online at giveaways www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com and save money and time. PLUS weekend and three day pass advance ticket holders get an additional GET INVOLVED! 25% discount at the FAIR bookstore and a commemorative MOTHER EARTH Volunteer – Volunteers get NEWS bumper sticker! complimentary admission, a special gift bag and refreshments! Erica Binns – Pre-Order Three-Day Pass $30.00 785-274-4307 $35 at the gate (for Seven Springs only) [email protected] Pre-Order Weekend Pass – $25.00 Be a Presenter $30 at the gate (for Puyallup only) James Duft 785-274-4439 [email protected] Pre-Order One Day Pass – $15.00 $20 at the gate Apply to Exhibit Mellissa Crouch VIP Pass – $100 785-274-4450 Includes guaranteed front of [email protected] house seating and a private CHILDREN Enhanced Benefi ts Through Sponsorship hospitality lounge. Plus, the 17 & UNDER Complete MOTHER EARTH Allison Stapleton NEWS ARCHIVE DVD and a GET IN 828-669-3957 FAIR T-shirt. FREE! [email protected] Puyallup, Wash. • June 2-3 | Seven Springs, Pa. • Sept. 21-23 ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW AND SAVE! Visit MotherEarthNewsFair.com or call 1-800-234-3368 PUYALLUP FAIRGROUNDS JUNE 2-3, 2012 • PUYALLUP, WASH. Number of Workshops: 150 Number of Exhibitors: 250 The Western Washington Fairgrounds is home to the world-famous Puyallup Fair—one of the largest state fairs in the United States. In 2011, MOTHER EARTH NEWS launched its inaugural West Coast version of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR at the venue’s state-of- the-art Americraft Showplex. Thousands of attendees experienced dozens of informative, hands-on workshops on more than 10 stages peppered throughout the Showplex and across the neighboring courtyard into the venue’s Centennial building. As anticipated, our guests showed up eager to learn and then set their newfound knowledge into motion as they shopped with our exhibitors. For 2012, expect to see new workshops based on what was most popular in 2011, more outdoor features, more exhibitors and a bigger stage site for our keynote speakers. Throughout both days, the FAIR buzzed with action as the MOTHER EARTH NEWS culture came to life! Check out images and video from 2011 at www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com. www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com THREE DAYS! SEVEN SPRINGS MOUNTAIN RESORT SEPT. 21-23, 2012 • SEVEN SPRINGS, PA. Number of Workshops: 200 Number of Exhibitors: 250 The second annual MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR at Seven Springs Mountain Resort was a SMASH! More than 13,000 guests enjoyed the setting of this beautiful four-season resort nestled in the rolling Laurel Highlands approximately one hour southeast of Pittsburgh, Pa. Check out images from 2011 at www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com. Fortunately we learned a thing or two from the previous year and the traffi c fl owed through our designated workshop and exhibitor spaces effortlessly. For 2012, we’ve added a third day, so attendees can take advantage of expanded workshop programming and spend more time perusing our exhibitors. Perhaps this attendee surveyed from our 2011 event sums it up best: “There are so many good things to see and so many people, it’s hard to fi nd time to see the vendors ... but we make it work!” Puyallup, Wash. • June 2-3 | Seven Springs, Pa. • Sept. 21-23 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Joel Salatin – Keynote at Washington and Pennsylvania American Farmer, Lecturer and Author Joel Salatin is a self-described environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic farmer, or as The New York Times calls him, “the high priest of the pasture.” Profi led in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Salatin employs an innovative farming system that has gained attention from around the country. He’s penned more than a half dozen books, including Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal and The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer. Bryan Welch – Keynote at Washington and Pennsylvania Publisher and Editorial Director, Ogden Publications Writer, farmer and media executive Bryan Welch grew up in New Mexico where, at age 9, he began caring for a neighbor’s dairy goats and other livestock. Today, Welch and his family raise cattle, sheep, goats and chickens on their 50-acre farm. All their animals range freely, and the grazing animals are strictly grass-fed. Author of the recent Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want, Welch will inspire audiences to look beyond immediate obstacles and envision a world that is not only sustainable, but prosperous. Dan Chiras, Ph.D. – Keynote at Washington and Pennsylvania Author and Renewable Energy Expert Dan Chiras paid his last electric bill in the June of 1996. He hasn’t given up electricity and modern conveniences, though—he’s turned to the sun and wind to meet his family’s needs. Chiras is a visiting professor of environmental science at Colorado College and director of The Evergreen Institute in east-central Missouri. He is the author of 30 books, which include The Homeowner’s Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower; and The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy- Effi cient, Environmental Homes. Jenna Woginrich – Keynote at Pennsylvania Author, Farmer and Blogger Former urbanite, present shepherdess and current farm writer—Jenna Woginrich has big plans. Plans that include living a more self-suffi cient life with dogs at her side and Wi-Fi in the barn. She drives a dented pickup truck and shares her New York farm and gardens with working sled dogs, a border collie, sheep, a cart horse, a fl ock of gregarious chickens, two awkward geese, meat rabbits, a hive of bees and loud turkeys. She’s also the author of Barnheart and you can fi nd her on MOTHER EARTH NEWS blogs, talking up sustainable living. Sandor Katz – Keynote at Pennsylvania Author, DIY Food Activist Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He wrote Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods—which Newsweek called “the fermenting bible”—in order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and demystify home fermentation. Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a “fermentation revivalist.” www.MotherEarthNewsFair.com SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT Ed Begley Jr. – Keynote at Washington and Pennsylvania Green Living Advocate and Actor Ed Begley Jr. is an actor, author and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of fi lms, television shows, and stage performances. He’s best known for his role on the television series St. Elsewhere, for which he received six Emmy Award nominations, and his reality show about green living, Living With Ed. His work has earned him a number of awards from some of the most prestigious environmental groups in the nation. Temple Grandin – Keynote at Pennsylvania Animal Science Doctor, Professor and Author Temple Grandin is a doctor of animal science, professor, best-selling author and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is listed in the 2010 Time 100 as one of the 100 most infl uential people in the world. Will Allen – Keynote at Washington Author and Educator Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. In 1995, Allen began developing farming methods and educational programs to improve the diet and health of the urban poor.