A Festival With Relevance

 

A Festival With Relevance

The blustery wind blew even harder across the VTC campus in Randolph Center on May 2—and, for me, only added to the meaning of the Fiddlehead Festival. It reminded me that on days like that, farmers and plantspeople are out in the thick of it, tending animals and growing crops that are our food.

The Fiddlehead Festival's organizers—Regina Beidler and Bob Eddy and many others—set out to create a community celebration of agriculture and the arts, and they did so.

I appreciate the relevance of the Festival's two workshops—one on wild edibles and the other on energy alternatives in the post-peak oil era. Feeding ourselves and powering the necessary equipment of our lives—these are pressing topics about which the mass media and federal government are silent at best, in active denial at worst.

I am grateful to the organizers, farmers, growers, vendors, local merchants, and VTC for their contributions to the Fiddlehead Festival. Knowing our neighbors and sharing ideas, skills, and resources sets a foundation for a communal, constructive response to the post-peak oil era in which we now live.

Elizabeth Ferry

East Barnard