Wise Traditions 2009 – the Weston A Price Foundation’s 10th Annual Conference – is just around the corner and I’m planning to attend. It’ll be my first Weston A Price Foundation conference, and the line up has me entranced: lectures about sacred foods and traditional diets, films, cooking classes, yoga. Best of all for a foodiot like me, the menu at the 3-day conference focuses exclusively on real, wholesome food: lacto-fermented vegetables, grass-finished meats, raw milk cheeses, sourdough breads and other delicious goodies. There’s no powdered egg or sucralose on this menu!
Sally Fallon Morell, author of Nourishing Traditions (available online) and president of the Weston A Price Foundation will offer a seminar on Traditional Diets. You better believe, I want to hear what she has to say. It was Nourishing Traditions that brought me to traditional foods just as the Future of Food brought me to organics. Sacred Foods for Fertility and the Role of Oxalates in Mental Illness and Chronic Disease seem particularly interesting. Plus RJ Ruppenthal, author of Fresh Food from Small Spaces, will be there as well. Inspiring, his book discusses maximizing minimal amounts of space – such as urban apartments – for growing foods. Sprouts, kefir, honeybees, laying hens and even mushrooms.
I’m also looking forward to connecting readers, other bloggers touching on traditional foods.
The Weston A Price Foundation focuses on educating the public about traditional nutrient-dense foods and their role in human health. The Weston A Price foundation advocates for real and traditional foods prepared the way our ancestors prepared them. You can view more about their work on their website. Read more about the conference here.
Oooo, we’ll have o meet up! It’ll be my first conference too! I’m just trying to figure out which sessions I want to attend – there are so many good ones!
Do you happen to know if the material presented at the conferences ever becomes available to people who can’t attend?
I’m not going to be allowed to travel after November 1st, due to having a high risk pregnancy. It sounds wonderful, though, and I really hope to go to one in a few years… the food alone is enough to tempt me! Some of the seminars sound very good, and if I recall correctly, last year’s conference focused on children’s health. I’d love to be able to read through what was presented there.
@Bekki
They always make the audio from the conferences available for purchase. If you head on over to http://www.fleetwoodonsite.com/index.php?cPath=40 you can purchase audio (CD or MP3) from the 2006-2008 conferences. I actually even believe you can buy a DVD of the video taped sessions (not sure how many there are). If there is just one particular session you are interested in you can purchase that separately – you don’t have to buy the whole thing.
This is one conference I think would be right up my alley to attend. Not this year…but maybe next. Do you know if it is always held in Illinois?
I’m looking forward to attending this conference. It will be my first time.
I am jealous, can’t wait to here how it goes!