Staunton Green 2020

Have you rocked the vote yet and supported Staunton/Augusta Farmers Market in the American Farmland Trust national competition? With 30 acres of farmland being lost in Virginia every day, supporting our local farmers is now more important than ever. In the 10 county Shenandoah Valley region consumers spend $1.2 billion buying food each year, but only $4.3 million of food is sold by farmers directly to consumers. We have the buying power to re-shape the local economy. Learn more here.

Vote today for the Staunton/Augusta Farmers Market and eat local every day.

Every Thursday in July at Live Arts in Charlottesville there will be the one woman show, Cry of the Mountain, a documentary play about Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia, conceived and performed by Adelind Horan.

As described on the Live Arts web site: “This is a wonderful and simple piece of theatre in which Adelind portrays a wide variety of people involved with and affected by Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia. The characters are performed verbatim from interviews she conducted last summer while volunteering with iLoveMountains.org.”

Get more info at Live Arts.

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On Thursday, July 15 at 7 pm, the film Save Our Land, Save Our Towns will be shown at Mockingbird Restaurant, 123 West Beverley Street, Staunton, as part of the Local Motion Film Series Third Thursday Screenings. Admission is free. Doors open at 5:30 pm for dinner in the Roots Music Hall space. The film follows the quest of small town newsman Tom Hylton to discover why America’s towns have declined. Hylton explores policies which gave rise to sprawl and laws that encourage sprawl. Contrasting bad policies with those that encourage greenbelts and traditional neighborhoods, Hylton unveils logical, practical ways America can rebuild its towns and preserve its countryside. Following the film will be a brief discussion with two planners in our area: Kathy Frazier of Frazier and Associates, and Sara Hollberg of Valley Conservation Council. The screening is cosponsored by Transition Staunton Augusta, Mary Baldwin College’s Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagement, and Mockingbird.