Sustainable Food Expert Coming to Exeter

The Food and Health Forum will host Barton Seaver, the newly appointed Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard's School of Public Health for a dinner seminar on Feb. 11 at Blue Moon Evolution in Exeter. Barton's role is to help people understand our food choices and how they impact human health and the environment.  

As a chef and environmentalist, Seaver believes that truly recognizing the process of food production and consumption can drastically improve the environment. He was named a National Geographic Fellow for his tireless work and initiatives to preserve depleted seafood specimens by suggesting substitutes. 

As a Fellow with the Explorer Program at the National Geographic  Society, Barton has used his position to explore the confluence of human and ecological health. Barton has traveled the globe and gained deep insight into the human and economic systems that govern our relationship with nature. A main focus of his work as been in helping to develop the Seafood Decision Guide, a decision tool which helps to inform consumers by consolidating sustainability, mercury, and Omega-3 data in one convenient location.

The dinner seminar is part of the Food and Health Forum's Community Wellness series which features dinner seminars and cooking and wellness classes. Kath Gallant, owner of Blue Moon Evolution and Tracey Miller, nutritionist teach the cooking and wellness classes.  They launched the Food and Health Forum last year to revolutionize our food system from the ground up and provide opportunities to reestablish the between what we eat, where our food comes from, and how it affects our health. The dinner seminar costs $55.00 and includes a 3-course family style meal.  For more information go to www.foodandhealthforum.com or call 603-380-1080.