Deidre Currie Festival Photos
I will be doing a few posts about the Deidre Currie Festival. I took a lot of notes at the seminars and will share as much as I can with you all.
Today I’ll start with a few photos…
Here’s Archie with Baby Jack:
And here they are the morning of the festival:
Archie played a slideshow of Deidre which made us all cry. Baby Jack’s mom, Dee, passed away in childbirth last January. She never got to hold her baby.
Archie is carrying the torch passed to him by his beloved wife, Dee, and held this festival in her honor. What a brave man he is to honor his wife like this. He didn’t want all her work to go to waste.
The good news is, last year they had only 100 people at the festival, but this year I heard they had 400 people. A lot of new people were there, too, so that was wonderful.
Archie and Jack are both great spirits. Jack is so lucky to have a daddy like Archie to look up to, and a mommy like Deidre who watches over him from Heaven.
I was so pleased to get to know John Wood this weekend. Grass farmer and founder of US Wellness Meats, John has such a passion for helping people and producing healthy, nutritious food from sustainable farms. He drove 9 hours just to get to the festival. He’s a real hero.
And don’t you just love that photo of that cute baby eating beef jerky?
Here’s the link to US Wellness Meats: http://www.grasslandbeef.com
Here’s Dave Wetzel of Green Pasture Products, selling cod liver oil and butter oil. I bought a LOT — the prices were so good.
I’m personally in love with the new fermented cod liver oil. It’s fabulous stuff!
Here’s the link to Green Pastures: http://www.greenpasture.org/
Here’s Karen Lubbers, Sally Fallon, Jerry Brunetti, and Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride at a panel:
Here’s Kelly the Kitchen Kop, blogging away:
And here I am with Kelly and our laptops, taking notes:
Kelly was so much fun. She’s a real powerhouse, so passionate and motivated — such an inspiration to me! And she’s a joy to be around. You can read her post here about the festival.
I also got to spend time with Diane of Peaceful Acres blog. Diane is such a sweetheart. Truly an amazing lady. I sat with her and talked about herbs and natural healing for about 15 minutes and in that short time, learned so much — many things I’ve never read in books.
You can see more photos from the festival on her blog here.
More photos coming later today. And I’ll also be posting about all the seminars we attended.
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15/09/2008 at 10:29 pm Permalink
Thankfully you brought your camera, since yours did a much better job than mine! What a great weekend and it was so fun to hang with you. (Even if you are much more photogenic than I am!)
Love, Kelly
15/09/2008 at 10:48 pm Permalink
Oh please! You’re so gorgeous! You’re way too hard on yourself.
It was great hanging out with you, too!
xoxo
08/10/2008 at 9:55 pm Permalink
I wanted to find out if you bought the regular fermented cod liver oil or if you bought one of the flavored ones and if so what flavor?
I also wanted to say that I love your blog I found it over the weekend and have been reading the entire thing. Alison
08/10/2008 at 10:11 pm Permalink
Hi, Alison,
Thanks for your compliment.
I just wrote a post about fermented cod liver oil which will go up this Friday.
I think the fermented cod liver oil is much better — as you will see in my post.
That said, I tried giving it to Kate today and she HATED it. I think it burned a little — she is just not used to it. I’ll wait until she is older. I still have a lot of the regular cod liver oil to give her.
I like both the cinnamon and the licorice. I have never tried the plain — people have said it is nasty but I don’t know.
Although I know Dave Wetzel is rejiggering the flavor for the licorice. However I like the licorice flavor — I guess he’s just trying to make it better.
Green Pastures was having a sale last week (or two weeks ago?) selling the licorice flavor for 70% off. I bought a whole bunch of it. I’m not sure if they are still having the sale or not.
Ann Marie