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SUMMARY:A Talk with Jim Embry
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DESCRIPTION:Join 2023 James Beard Leadership Award winner Jim Embry for an
  engaging and inspirational conversation about sustainable communities and
  food justice. Available on livestream.\n .\nhttps://lexpublib.libnet.info
 /event/11466470
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>**Our sincere apologies\, due to technical
  difficulties this livestream has been cancelled. We will try to post a vi
 deo of the event elsewhere afterward. Thanks for your understanding. **</p
 >\n<p>The conversation will include:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim&rsquo\;s es
 say &ldquo\;Ancestral Vibrations Guide Our Connection to the Land.&rdquo\;
 &nbsp\; An edited version appeared in We Are Each Other&rsquo\;s Harvest: 
 Celebrating African American Farmers\, Land\, and Legacy\, edited by Natal
 ie Baszile (Harper Collins\, 2021). The unedited essay is available at Emb
 ry_WeAreEachOther'sHarvest_uneditedversion.pdf (sustainlex.org)&nbsp\; or 
 by emailing nclewett@lexpublib.org</li>\n<li>his upcoming trip to Italy as
  he represents Lexington and Slow Food USA at the global Terra Madre&nbsp\
 ;&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>and his 2023 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award&nb
 sp\;<br />&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Speaker Biography:</p>\n<p>Jim Embry won
  a 2023 James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in recognition of over 50 
 years of work in the food justice movement. His work is local\, national\,
  and international in advocating for sustainable communities and social ju
 stice.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Embry&rsquo\;s interest in local and healthy 
 food\, urban agriculture and food justice can be traced back through his f
 amily&rsquo\;s legacy as agrarian intellectual activists. He is the great-
 grandson of formerly enslaved African farmers who fought in the Civil War 
 and who became social activists in Madison County\, Kentucky.&nbsp\;&nbsp\
 ;</p>\n<p>Jim is at home at every level\, whether as an eight-time USA del
 egate to Slow Food&rsquo\;s Terra Madre in Italy\, a visitor to Cuba to st
 udy organic farming\, extensive work in urban agriculture\, or planting on
  his 30-acre farm. Jim maintains that the local food and sustainable agric
 ulture movement is the foundation of a sustainable community. &nbsp\;</p>\
 n<p>As a scuba diver and photographer\, Jim has traveled widely to capture
  the beauty of the land and oceans. He has exhibited his photos in books\,
  hospitals\, galleries\, and magazines. Working now on two books\, Jim has
  contributed articles and photographs to We Are Each Other&rsquo\;s Harves
 t\, Sustainable World Source Book\, Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky\, Ke
 ntucky African American Encyclopedia\, Latino Studies\, Biodynamics Journa
 l\, African American Heritage Guide\, Stella Natura and other publications
 . Jim believes that we need some big ideas that connect humans in a sacred
  relationship with the Earth and Cosmos\, which will require us to think n
 ot just &ldquo\;out of the box&rdquo\; but &ldquo\;out-of-the-barn.&rdquo\
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