Lecture to focus on local food production

May 21, 2010

Marmian Grimes

Julie Estey
907-474-1144
5/21/10


The Alaska Center for Energy and Power will host its next community lecture May 25 at 6 p.m. at the Blue Loon on the Parks Highway.

The lecture, “Local Food Production for Energy Security,” will discuss how producing food locally can improve local energy security. Speakers include Tom Zimmer from Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, Jeff Werner from the UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, and Markus Mager from the Alaska Center for Energy and Power.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.uaf.edu/acep.

MEDIA CONTACT: Julie Estey, ACEP business director, at 907-474-1144 or julie.estey@alaska.edu.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/acep

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