Date/Time
Date(s) – 11/07/2014
11:45 am – 1:00 pm

Location
LJAC Gallery

Additional Information

Steven Hopp will discuss how the Animal Vegetable Miracle project has unfolded in the ten years since his family did their year of local food eating. The talk will touch on the role of local food for the Hopp/Kingsolver family, and how Hopp has tried to bring the ideas and ideals to a local community development project, The Meadowview Farmers’ Guild.

Steven Hopp is a graduate of Simpson College and Indiana University with degrees in psychology and biology.  He has been on faculty at the University of Arizona and currently teaches Environmental Studies at Emory and Henry College.  He is coauthor (with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver) of the international bestseller Animal Vegetable Miracle, which chronicles the year-long attempt by his family to eat as close to home as possible.  The book has been translated into nine languages.  Hopp is the founder of the Meadowview Farmers’ Guild and Harvest Table Restaurant, where he serves as director.  He and his family live in Southwest Virginia.