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See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest The Deidre Currie Festival will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 8:15 am to 6 pm in the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105.

The cost is $45, which includes access to all lectures.

Speakers include:

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, M.D., a Cambridge pediatrician, is reversing autism with nutrition in her own son and thousands of her patients. Author of Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Dr. Campbell-McBride holds advanced degrees in nutrition and neurology. For more about the GAPS diet, visit http://www.gutandpsychologysyndrome.com/ and http://www.gapsdiet.com. Video interviews of Dr. Campbell McBride are on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLP0Ijo2CK4.

Sally Fallon is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the founder of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Her cookbook, Nourishing Traditions, has sold more books than Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals and Ina Garten’s The Barefoot Contessa (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/05/AR2008080501000.html). For more on Sally Fallon, visit  http:/www.westonaprice.org and http://www.ftcldf.org/.

Jerry Brunetti cured himself of terminal cancer with food (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8841234327210711547). In 1979, he founded Agri-Dynamics, which provides holistic sustainable consulting and products for ecological and natural remedies to replace pharmaceuticals. Jerry also founded Earthworks in 1991 to advise landscapers and golf courses on sustainable practices.

Karen Lubbers served as CEO of Lubbers Resource Systems, an award winning waste reduction and recycling program for the commercial/industrial sector. She and her husband currently operate a sustainable farm in West Michigan offering grass-fed meats, a cow share program for raw milk, and a bakery. 

In addition to the speakers, from 9-6 pm, free of charge and open to the public, there will be a children’s health area with local holistic doctors and dentists, and a gourmet farmer’s market featuring local and national sustainable farmers and food artisans – from Zingerman’s cheese to rabbit from US Wellness Meats and raw milk from Oliver Farms.

Register for festival tickets at http://www.deidrecurriefestival.com or call 248-620-8969.

Cover

@ the door: 

$45

In advance: 

$45