Participatory Hearthside Dinner with Chris Smith, Author of "The Whole Okra"
Friday, January 24, 2020 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Single Brothers House
Come celebrate the preservation, restoration, and sharing of our natural heritage through seeds with stories and the cross-pollination of plants, people, and food!
Friday, January 24, 2020
Participatory Hearthside Dinner w/Chris Smith author of “The Whole Okra”
6:00pm ,Single Brothers House (600 South Main St)
Come celebrate the preservation, restoration, and sharing of our natural heritage through seeds with stories and the cross-pollination of plants, people, and food!
For a donation of $25.00 per person, you can contribute to our fundraising effort. As a thank you we are holding a hearthside dinner for you! To donate click here. Proceeds go toward accessibility benches in the Old Salem gardens.
Join us for a special “make your own dinner” – dinner! As part of the SOWN and GROWN Seed Saving Weekend, Old Salem will have a special guest speaker, Chris Smith, author of THE WHOLE OKRA and executive director of the Utopian Seed Project. On Friday evening January 24th a special Hearthside dinner with Chris Smith will be held in the Single Brothers house. Expert okra enthusiast Chris Smith writes regularly for The Heirloom Gardener, the Mother Earth News blog, and the Farmers’ Almanac blog. His presentations on the versatility of okra have delighted audiences at food and farming festivals and fairs throughout the Southeast. He is the Executive Director of the Utopian Seed Project and serves on the boards of The People’s Seed and Slow Food Asheville. A native of the UK, Smith has a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Manchester. His short stories have been published in Nashville Review, Mid-American Review, and The Manchester Review.