In association with the exhibition, The Greatest Source of Wealth: Agriculture in Concord, the Farm to Lectern Speakers Series brings nationally-recognized agrarian activists to Concord.

On Thursday, January 17, 2013, the Concord Museum welcomes Joel Salatin, author and full-time farmer at Polyface, a multi-generational, beyond organic farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. In his talk, Folks, This Ain’t Normal, based on his book by the same title, Salatin gives a whimsical performance filled with history, satire, and prophecy in defense of small farms, local food systems, and the right to opt out of the conventional food paradigm. He relates his dirt-under-the-fingernails experiences with mischievous humor and based firmly on a lifetime spent communing with ecology, economics, and emotion in their full reality, as a farmer. Both sobering and inspiring, his performance empowers people to tackle the seemingly impossibly large tasks that confront our generation.

Book signing to follow lecture. 7:00 p.m., at the Fenn School, 516 Monument Street in Concord. The speakers series is free, but reservations are requested, 978-369-9763 ext. 216.