April recap - Local food & ag meetup and Earth Month!

April was Earth Month - and it was a busy one! We kicked it off with a great conversation as usual at our monthly meetup, on the topic of Local Food & Agriculture. Just in time for the beginning of outdoor farmers market season!

We talked about everything from efforts to protect local farmland via the Missoula Area Mapping project, to the many environmental benefits of mushrooms, to saving seeds and supporting our local farmers. Here's a few links to some of the people, organizations and ideas that were part of the conversation:

• Community Food & Agriculture Coalition 
• Missoula Area Land Use Mapping Project 
• Front Street Fungi - William Gregg
• Red Hen Farm & CSA - Julie Peters
• Oxbow Cattle Company - Bart Morris
• Five Valleys Seed Library - Anne Little
• UM Dining Sustainability - Trevor Lowell and Stasia Orkwiszewski
• Grain by Grain - new book about Montana agriculture

We're grateful to be part of a community of locavores who understand and value agriculture and local food as important tools in Missoula's climate resilience toolbox!

We hope you also had a chance to take part in some of the great community festivities around Earth Month. From the International Wildlife Film Festival, to MUD's Annual Earth Day Celebration, to celebrating trees and their climate benefits, we had fun out and about in April. 

Next Monthly Meetup is Health & Climate - hope you'll join us on Thursday, May 9!