Healing the Earth by Growing Food as Medicine

Name: Healing the Earth by Growing Food as Medicine
Start: 2025-03-11T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Museum of the Rockies

Schedule

Tue, 11 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Museum of the Rockies | Bozeman, MT

Healing the Earth by Growing Food as Medicine
with Bob Quinn, Montana organic farmer and businessman
Tuesday, March 11th
Book signing of "Grain by Grain" with Bob at 6:30 pm
(courtesy of the Museum of the Rockies bookstore)
Talk 7 pm
Museum of the Rockies
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Presented by Gallatin Valley Earth Day in partnership with the Community Food Co-op.
Since WWII, our national ag goal has been plentiful, low-cost food. Now we have the most abundant, cheap food in the world. However, this cheap food has come at a very high cost. Let’s start with rural America - what % of the farms from our grandparent’s era still exist? - hardy half - Look down Main Street of most small towns. What % of the businesses are boarded up? - again about 1/2. Look at the pollution due to ag chemicals throughout our country and throughout the world. What % of your family and friends have at least one chronic disease? The national average is now 60%. All these problems can be mediated by growing food as medicine. We start by healing our land, then our communities and finally our people. I will be taking my personal experiences and observations over the past 70 years to suggest a few solutions that can involve everyone in a very positive way.
About Bob Quinn
Bob Quinn is a leading green businessman, with successful ventures in both organic agriculture and renewable energy. Raised on a 2,400 acre wheat and cattle ranch in Montana, Quinn earned a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry at UC Davis before coming home to farm in 1978. In 1986, he planted his first organic crop, and by 1989, he had converted his entire farm. He served on the first National Organic Standards Board, which spurred the creation of the USDA's National Organic Program, and has been recognized with the Montana Organic Association Lifetime of Service Award, The Organic Trade Association Organic Leadership Award, and Rodale Institute's Organic Pioneer Award. In 2023 he donated 700 acres of his farm to create a regenerative organic research, education and health institute. The vision and mission of Quinn Institute is “Healing the Earth by Growing Food as Medicine”.