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 The W. V. Sustainable Fair 2008: "Green Makes $en$e"  will be held at Davis and Elkins College,
Elkins, West Virginia on April 18th, 19th and 20th, 2008.  Details below as they are confirmed. 
For Tentative Schedule for weekend, scroll down.
For Press Releases, click here.

The two dinners described below are Fund Raisers at the Sustainable Fair for Sustainable Living For
West Virginia, Inc., a registered non-profit W. V. organization.  Donations are tax deductible.

A Sustainable Feast:  Living in Concert


to precede the WV Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening April 19th, 2008:  $40/per person to benefit Sustainable Living for W. V. .  Send check or money order to:   
Jan Myers, Treasurer, 295 Simpson Run Rd., Weston, W. V. 26452 
or phone Jan at (304) 269-7019 to make reservations via credit card.
(Reservations limited)

Spinach and Arugula Salad Spring Red Onions Ramp Vinaigrette
Golden Beet Salad with Roasted Walnuts Firefly Mountain Top Blue Cheese Sesame Raisin Vinaigrette

Mixed Spring Greens Buttermilk Dressing, Balsamic Vinaigrette

Puree of Fresh Asparagus Soup Lemon Cream

Braised West Virginia Beef Roast Morels and Roasted Root Vegetables

Roast Leg of Lamb Stuffed with Spinach, Rosemary, Garlic and Feta

Pan Seared Artic Char "Peas and Carrots"

Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna

Jeff's Breads

Holl's Chocolates, Lemon Tarts "24 Carrot" Cake

 

To order A Taste of West Virginia:  local Chefs serving their signature dishes on Friday Night,
April 18th, send check or money order for $25. to Sustainable Living for W. V., c/o Jan Myers,
Treasurer 295 Simpson Run Rd., Weston, W. V. 26452 or phone Jan at
(304) 269-7019 to reserve via credit card.  Those registered will have their names listed at the Registration table at Davis and Elkins and upon entering Halliehurst Mansion for the dinners.  If there are any questions, phone Jan at (304) 269-7019 five days after registering.

Chefs Confirmed for April 18th Friday nights:  "Taste of West Virginia" (local chefs serving local food - presenting their signatures dishes):  Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef, Stonewall Resort. Melanie Campbell:  Graceland, Davis and Elkins College.  Jay Mahoney:  Pierpont Community and Technical College at Fairmont State.  Hall Hitzig:  The Crazy Baker. 
Jeff's Kessler:  Jeff's Breads.  Tim Urbanic:  Cafe Cimino.  Joy Marr:  Smokey's on the Gorge. Nemat Odeh:  Canaan Valley Resort.  Pablo Solonet:  Firefly Farms

To order A Sustainable Feast Dinner at the Sustainable Fair 2008 on Saturday, April 19th, send check or money order for $40. to:  Sustainable Living for W. V.
c/o
Jan Myers, Treasurer, 295 Simpson Run Rd., Weston, W. V. 26452 or phone (304) 269-7019 after 5 pm
Attention:  People  must make reservations for either Friday or Saturday night's dinners by check or credit card no later than the 14th of April to the Treasurer, Jan Myers.  If reservations are not received by the Treasurer by the 14th, they cannot be honored.  However, there will be a limited number of dinners available at the door on both Friday and Saturday nights.

Profits from both dinners are for the benefit of Sustainable Living for W. V., a non-profit organization.

For WV Symphony Orchestra concert on Saturday night ($12.. per person  $10. for students and senior citizens) , contact Carol Schuler, Public Relations and Marketing Director, D & E,  at schulerc@davisandelkins.edu or phone (304) 637-1338

Gourmet menu featuring local chefs and local produce below.

List of Booths (scroll down)




Workshops, Demonstrations
Exhibits & Booths on
Energy:  solar, wind & more
Food & Farming
Sustainable Tourism & Recycling
Green Building & Green Business
Environmental Art Exhibit
Children's Program & Music
Gourmet Dining using local foods
Davis & Elkins College
April 18th, 19th, 20th, 2008
Elkins W. V.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Koons Garcia will be the
Keynote Speaker at the
W. V. Sustainable Fair

A writer, producer and director, Ms. Garcia's film
"The Future of Food" is described below by Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Food"

The Future of Food is a 2004 documentary film which makes an in-depth investigation into unlabelled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly made their way onto grocery store shelves in the United States for the past decade.

It gives farmers in disagreement with the food industry a voice to express how their lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology, and shines a light on the market and political forces that are changing what we eat.

The film decries the cost of a globalized food industry on human lives around the world, and highlights how international companies are gradually driving farmers off the land in many countries. Potential global dependence of the human race on a limited number of global food corporations is discussed, as is the increased risk of ecological disasters (such as the Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)) resulting from the reduction of biological diversity due to the promotion of corporate sponsored monoculture farming.

The issue of incorporating a suicide gene into plant seeds is questioned, with concern being expressed about the potential for a widespread catastrophe affecting the food supply, should such a gene contaminate other plants in the wild. Legal stories reported by the film related how a number of farmers in North America have been sued by Monsanto; and the defendant of the Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser case is interviewed.

The film was written and directed by Deborah Koon Garcia, produced by Catherine Butler and Deborah Koon Garcia, and premiered on 14 September 2005 at Film Forum in New York City to a full house. It has since been released on DVD in both NTSC and PAL formats.  The film will be available for viewing at the Sustainable Fair.

:Tentative Schedule of Events at Sustainable Fair 2008:  Green Makes $en$e ~ April 18th, 19th, 20th.Davis & Elkins College
Please note that workshops, demonstrations, exhibits can change or be cancelled and I will try to keep up with these changes on the website, but this is not always possible. MBH

 Friday, April 18th

4 – 6 p.m.  1.  Early Registration:  (for all event i.d. and Taste of W. V.)

                2.  Sustainable Fair Art Show Opening at D & E Library.

5 – 7 p.m.:  Early Bird Booth Set Up

6 – 7:30 p.m.Taste of West Virginia:  Local Chefs serve their signature dishes using local food at  Halliehurst   $25./person (see chefs committed to date above)

7:30 – 8 p.m.:  Now Hear This:  Saturday presenters give brief descriptions of their forums/workshops/talks

8:00 – Music by Public Outcry:  D & E sponsors this event at Harper-McNeely Auditorium – no fee  (for more information on Public Outcry scroll below).

Saturday, April 19th

               All day at designated areas – Register in order to attend workshops and keynote address by Deborah Koons Garcia.  All participants must register for an i.d. stamp.   $5. each $10/family.  Students with identification free.

Artists for Sustainability Show:  Open in Booth Library all day beginning April 18th through August, 2008

9 a.m.:  Fair Opens ~ Booths Set Up

9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon:  Children's Environmental Awareness Activities (ages 6 to 11)
Caretakers Responsible for Lunch

Workshops

 

Food & Farm

Dale Hawkins, Chair
Location - Science Center 413

Green Makes $en$e

Myra Bonhage-Hale Chair
Location - Science Center 319

Energy

Russ McClain, Chair

Location - Science Center 400

9:30 a.m. – 10:30

Collaborative for the 21st Century

www.wvfarm2u.org
Annie Seay
Dr. Allen Arnold
Dale Hawkins

Recycling;
Dr. David Ahrend JEDD WVO Recycling Used Vegetable Oil for Home and Car
Jane Birdsong, Conversations with Local Official
_______________

&

Note:  This is a last minute change!
Thom Worlledge,
Green Building:   Pres. Elect American Institute of Architects WV first LEED certified professional in W. V.
Location - Science Center 300

 Rick Webb
Wind Energy:  Pros and Cons
U of VA who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences committee of 16 scientists who recently published a report on the environmental impact of wind energy. This study was commissioned by congress. 

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break:  Visit booths

 

 

 

11 a.m. – Noon

Keynote Address

Deborah Koons Garcia

Food & Integrity

Noon – 1 p.m.

Lunch Break

Watch for the Green Piper!
Colin Henning

 Answer his environmental questions and win a green prize

 

12:30 – 4 p.m.

Children's Environmental Awareness Activities

Caretakers responsible for children’s lunch

Food Booths at the Sustainable Fair on Saturday April 19th:  Stonewall Resort soup, salads, sandwiches, cookies, drinks.,  The Crazy Baker, Jeff's Breads, Fire Fly Farms, DeFluri's Chocolates.

1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Goat Farming
in West Virginia
 
with Rachel Moran

Sustainable Tourism:
Brent Bailey, Exec. Dir. Mountain Institute - concerned about lack of policy for supporting sustainable tourism in W. V.
Doug Arbogast,
Travel Green West Virginia  

West Virginia Solar
Dan Bowes

Vicki Wolfe
WVEC
Renewable Energy Board
A Citizen's Energy Plan- What's In It For You!

2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Booth Break

 

 

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Slow Food USA:
Hall Hitzig
from The Crazy Baker in Rennik WV will host this presentation and introduce a Slow Food Chapter to W.V.

Green Business:

Scott Weaner Organic Farmer selling to area high end restaurants
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Mike Davis
Water Gap Retreat
How to Start a Successful Green Business in W. V.
www.watergapretreat.com


 

Mountain View Solar Builders:
WV Environmental Council Green Entrepreneur of the Year

3:30 – 4 p.m.

Booth Break

 

 

4:00 – 5 p.m.

EZ Bites PBS Kids:
Debbie Oleska from WV Pubcast will facilitate an E-Z Bite read-along session for kids that will incorporate cooking.
 

Green Building:
Don Spencer, Morgantown City Council member Convinced Council to build the new fire station as a LEED certified
"Green Building".

Saving Energy in Your New Home:

Ken Auvil

 Don Garvin TBA

5:30 -  -7:30 p.m.

 

A Sustainable Feast

Halliehurst

Living in Concert for the benefit of Sustainable Living for W. V.

 

$40./person

 

 

 

 

 

Booths down

By 7:30 p.m.

 

 

7:30 p.m.  -
doors open at 7 p.m.

W. V. Symphony Orchestra

Harper- McNeely Auditorium

$12 general
> admission;
> $10 seniors and students; $8 per person for groups of 10 or more. For
> symphony tickets, call 304-637-1240.

 

Davis & Elkins College Bookstore will be open both Friday before the dinner and Saturday all day
 

Sunday, April 20th, 2008:  Angela Eib, Chair

10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.  Prayers for the Environment – Robbins Chapel

10:30 a.m. – Distribution of Maps for Visits to a Green Life on the way home

Includes:  Edible Wild Plant Walk on site (D & E campus) Eve Van Deck

               Underground home – Melissa Dennison

                Self guided Wood Walks in Nature – Stonewall Resort

                Tour of the Gardens of La Paix – organic herbs and produce
 

                Tour of Water Gap Retreat - shelters made out of art!

 

2 p.m.:  Boiler House Theatre, Campus:    URINETOWN:  A Musical  $7./ticket

Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann        Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
URINETOWN was produced on Broadway in September, 2001 by the Araca Group and Dodger Theatricals in association with TheaterDreams, Inc., and Lauren Mitchell.

URINETOWN is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

               

A Sustainable Feast:  Living in Concert


to precede the WV Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening April 19th, 2008:  $40/per person to benefit Sustainable Living for W. V. .  Send check or money order to:   
Jan Myers, Treasurer, 295 Simpson Run Rd., Weston, W. V. 26452 
 
(Reservations limited)

Spinach and Arugula Salad Spring Red Onions Ramp Vinaigrette
Golden Beet Salad with Roasted Walnuts Firefly Mountain Top Blue Cheese Sesame Raisin Vinaigrette

Mixed Spring Greens Buttermilk Dress, Balsamic Vinaigrette

Puree of Fresh Asparagus Soup Lemon Cream

Braised West Virginia Beef Roast Morels and Roasted Root Vegetables

Roast Leg of Lamb Stuffed with Spinach, Rosemary, Garlic and Feta

Pan Seared Artic Char "Peas and Carrots"

Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna

Jeff's Breads

Holl's Chocolates, Lemon Tarts "24 Carrot" Cake

 

Sustainable Fair 2008 Booth List

Name

Mail Name

Chair Massage

Mike Plybon

Charleston Area Youth Environmental Network (CAYEN)

                        Treavor Swan

Davis & Elkins Admissions

Ken Maxwell

Davis & Elkins Student Environmental Group

 

Electric Car

Mike and Faith McKechnie

Elkins Farmers Market

Katie & Joel Wolpert

Environmental Advocate / DEP

Pam Nixon

Fabric Art

Laurie Gundersen

Faiths United for Sustainable Energy (FUSE)

FUSE

Gamesa

Ann Nozica

Garden Treasures

Melissa Dennison

Glenville State College

Milan C. Vavrek

Great Spirit Herbs

Eve Von Deck

Green Building

Ken Auvil

Hardscrabble Enterprises

Paul Goland

Holistic Moms Network, North Central Chapter

Kristy Clark

Hybrid car / Prius

Davis & Elkins contact

Landscape Architecture

Thomas Vasale

LaPaix Herb Farm

Myra Bonhage-Hale

Laural Mountain Preservation Association

Pam and Art Dodds

Morgana Fair Trade

Morgan McKinney

Mother Earth Foods

Dave Hawkins

Mountain Party of WV

Frank Young

Mountain View Builders

Mike McKechnie

Omega-Alpha Recycling Systems"

Bob Hamburg

Organic Foods (for purchase, variety)

 

 

 

four

 

PIMBY, LLC

Sarah Hunt and Matt

Poole's Art & Antiques

Denise Poole

Pottery

Scotty Weist

Pottery

Renee' Margocee

Pottery - "Mud River Pottery"

Susan Maslowski

Red Spruce project / WV Highlands & Wilderness

Dave Saville / Cory Bonasso

Rivanna Natural Designs

Gretchen Wirth

Rolling Thunder Vegetable Preserve

 

Shepherds Federation

Sigrid & Jason Keets

Sierra Club, WV Chapter

Beth Little

Smoke Camp Crafts

Dot Montgillian

Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)

Danny Chiotos

The Crazy Baker

Hall Hitzig

Travel Green WV

Doug Arbogast

Uncle Bunk's

Stacy Young

Vegetable Oil run car

David Ahrend

Water Gap Retreat

Michael Davis

Wee Care LLC / Envirosax

Amanda Hussion

Wilderness Co-Op

Lyle Coutts

WV Environmental Council

WVEC

WV Friends of Midwives

Morgan McKinney

WV Highlands Conservancy

Cindy Rank

WV Rivers Coalition

Arin Dickson

WV Wilderness Coalition

Mike Costello

WV-DEP Environmental Public Information Office

Theodora Plumley

 

Transportation

1)  Hybrid Car  - Toyoto  2)  Veggie Oil Car (Mercedes)  Jim Peters  3)  Veggie Oil Car (volkswagon)  Abe Miwaura

About Public Outcry Presentation Harper McNeely Auditorium Friday, April 18th, 8 p.m.:

Public Outcry is a group of six Appalachian writers, songwriters, and musicians, all hailing from Kentucky, and all united in a collective mission to “educate people inside and outside their home state” about the devastating effects of mountaintop removal mining (MTR).  Public Outcry blends song, reading, visual imagery, and dialogue to raise awareness about this growing environmental problem.

Public Outcry is The Cosmic Mamaws (Jessie Lynne Keltner, Kate Larken, Anne Shelby, and George Ella Lyon) and The Doolittles (Jason Howard and Silas House).  Although as individuals, they are published authors (Silas House, author of three best-selling novels and several prestigious fiction awards, visited campus with great success last year), as a group they have also become successful.  They have played all over the Appalachian region on college campuses, at community forums, and in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky.  Their music is featured on the CD Songs for the Mountaintop and in the book Missing Mountains, a collection of non-fiction about MTR.  It is, in fact, this unique blend of artistic genres, both grounded in the word, which promises to expand interest in Writers’ Week, both amongst the student body and within the local community.

Lodging Information

www.watergapretreat.com , 304-704-7867

 

http://www.randolphcountywv.com/Lodging.htm

Chamber of Commerce Information:  Lodging

Lodging
Name Email Phone  
Cheat River Lodge   304-636-2301 View this Address Contact
Elkins Motor Lodge & Tavern   304-636-1400 View this Address Contact
Glady Fork Cabins gfcc at hughes dot net 304- 636-6574 View this Address Contact
Graceland Inn & Conference Center   1-800-624-3175 View this Address Contact
Harman's North Fork Cottages wvlogcabins at frontiernet dot net 304-257-2220 View this Address Contact
Holiday Inn Express   304-630-2266 View this Address Contact
Hutton House Bed & Breakfast huttonhousebnb at frontiernet dot net (304) 336-2642 View this Address Contact
Smoke Hole Caverns   304-257-4442 View this Address Contact
Super 8 Motel   304-636-6500 View this Address Contact
The Lodge @ Kelly Mountain   304-635-0300 View this Address Contact
Tunnel Mountain B&B   304-636-1684 View this Address Contact
Valley Village Apartments lward at cebridge dot net 304-637-0651 View this Address Contact

 

Sponsors and Supporters to Date:
Sustainable Living for West Virginia, Inc.
Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia
West Virginia Environmental Council

Davis & Elkins College Wilderness Student Co-Op
Stonewall Resort
Highlands Conservancy
WV Wilderness Coalition
Bryson Van Nostrand Architect

History of the WV Sustainable Fair 2008:  The Fourth West Virginia Sustainable Fair is being planned for 2008 or 2009.  The initial planning meeting was at La Paix Herb Farm on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006.  Members of the Planning Committee to date (January 6, 2007)  are: 
Denise Poole, President, West Virginia Environmental Council & Co-Director, Sustainable Living for W.V.,
Ben and Stacy McKean, Healthberry Farms, 
Russ McClain, Professor, Davis & Elkins College, coordinator of the Biology and Environmental Science Department’s Environmental Science Program,
Elizabeth McClain, Elkins West Virginia
Andy Andryshak, Board Member, Sustainable Living for W.V.
Doug Arbogast, Project Leader West Virginia Sustainable Communities Project
A partnership of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, SCA - Students Conserving America, and the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.

Myra Bonhage-Hale, Co-Director, Sustainable Living for W.V., Board Member, WVEC,
Justin Wizard, Innovative Technology Research Center,
Joan Beard, Eureka Herbs,
Tom McConnell, WVU Extension Service:  Sustainable Agriculture
Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef, Stonewall Resort, Collaborative for 21st Century Appalachia:  Creating Sustainable Communities  (local organic food for local restaurants)
Don Garvin, Past WVEC President and Legislative Coordinator
Frank Young, WVEC Treasurer, WV Highlands Conservancy

On Dec. 2, 2006, Planning Committee Members (left to right) Doug Arbogast, Joan Beard, Russ McClain, Denise Poole, Elizabeth McClain and Myra Bonhage-Hale (took photo) met at La Paix. Major decisions made:  The 4th WV Sustainable Fair will be held Earth Day week (Friday, Sat. Sunday) in April of 2008 at Davis & Elkins College in Elkins West Virginia. 

Sustainable Living By-Laws below. (scroll down)

A Short History of the Sustainable Living for WV group

 

1999:  The collaborators, Denise Poole, Myra Bonhage-Hale,John Williams, Kara Capandonis,  Debbie Mixon & Eve Van Sant Drennan planned and held "Music for the Millennium" a fund raiser for the First Sustainable Fair to take place in 2000.

 

2000:  The First Sustainable Fair was held at Watters Smith State Park in Harrison County.

Speakers included:
Tom McConnell ... WVU Extension
Susan Sauter ... Mountain State Organic Grower & Buyers Assoc; Comm. Supp. Agric
Sue Cosgrove ... Mountain State Organic Grower & Buyers Assoc.
Art Digman ... Mountain State Dowsers
Dr. John Williams ... Natural Lifeways Corp.
Natasha Diamond ... WV Dept. of Nat. Resources
Mark English ... Whistlin' Wheels
Melissa Dennison ... WV Herb Assoc.
Greg Good ... Green Space Coalition
Greg Sayre ... WV Solid Waste Assoc.
Pam Nixon ... Environ. Advocates Office, DEP
Gary Zuckett ... WV Citizen Action Group
Rick Eades ... WV Environmental Council
Myra Bonhage-Hale ... La Paix Herb Farm
Thomas Mulligan ... Sustainable Housing
Denise Poole ... W.V. Environmental Council
Peter Maille ... Nat'l Park Service
Peggy Pings ... Rec. Trails Program

 Co directors of the Sustainable Fair 2000 were:

Dr. John Williams, Natural Lifeways, Inc. 17 Center Ave., Weston, W.V. 26452 (304) 269-7902
Myra Bonhage-Hale, La Paix Herb Farm, HC 64, Box 17, Alum Bridge, 26321 (304) 269-768l
Denise Poole, WV Environmental Council, 1324 Virginia St. E., Charleston, W.V. 25301 (304) 346-5905

Summaries of Workshops and Presentations; Sustainable Fair 2001

WVWC Buckhannon, W.V. 26201

 In order of presentation:    Friday

8:45-9:00  Welcome & Orientation by Myra Bonhage-Hale and Denise Poole
John Lozier, Harping for Harmony will perform

 9-11:45"Getting Grants That Build Better Communities" 

Margaret Krome from the Michael Fields Institute of Troy, Wisc., who wrote a book titled Building Better Communities  - about grantmanship for farmers - will present a workshop on agriculture and rural grant writing.  She will help those attending better understand the grant process and  how to pattern their present research needs into a meaningful grant request.  Everyone attending will receive a copy of her book
                          
1:30-2:30     

"Successful Sustainable Agriculture Grants for Farmer/Growers"

David Holm will explain the popular Farmer/Grower grant program where farmers can apply for grants to experiment on their own farms so they can gain new insight into their operations.  Holm will explain the grant process, which starts with an idea and ends with a successful on-farm solution.   In addition to David Holm, four actual on-farm studies dealing with pest control, organic nitrogen production for vegetables and deer damage abatement options, will be presented by grant recipients.  The recipients will also share their grant experiences from 3 - 5 p.m.

                                                                  2-?

      "Whole Foods Demonstration"

Lynn Degen summarizes her demonstration:  Healthy Whole Foods: Our Ancestral Diet.  While modern food processing emphasizes profit over nutrition, a more traditional diet enhances health.

                                                                      2:00-3:00

 

"Demonstration of Solar Energy"

                                                                  Bob Handley

 

3.00-4:00   

"Farmer-Friendly Community Supported Agriculture & The Unmet Demand for Organic Food"

Susan Truxell Sauter:  Nationwide, the organic industry has posted double- digit sales growth of 20% fo