Featured Speaker, Florencia Ramirez, author of Eat Less Water

Florencia Ramirez, author of Eat Less Water, will be the featured speaker for the next Speaking of Ventura County Speaker Series, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 11th, at the Museum of Ventura County’s Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula.

By 2030, experts predict two-thirds of people living on this planet will not have enough water, a situation expected to result in the deaths of millions and an unprecedented rise in military conflicts. Can we as individuals hope to reverse these dire predictions? Award-winning author and water activist, Florencia Ramirez, believes we can if our conservation efforts focus on the seventy percent of freshwater flowing to the fields and ranches that grow our food.

Florencia Ramirez will share the stories of America’s food producers who grow food with less water from her book Eat Less Water. Ms. Ramirez sheds light on the seldom-seen connection between dwindling water resources and the choices we make when shopping for groceries for our families and offers a solution that begins in the kitchen.

Ms. Ramirez is a trained researcher at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy. Her articles appear in Edible Communities Magazine and San Jose Mercury News, among others, and her popular blog. Florencia has been interviewed by NPR, American Public Media, KCRW’s Good Food, New York and Bay Area Pacifica Radio, Entertainment Weekly, and KTLA Morning News. She lives in Oxnard, California with her husband and three young children.

Cost is free with general admission; members free. The Agriculture Museum of Ventura County is located at 926 Railroad Ave, Santa Paula. For more information call (805) 525-3100 or email agriculture@venturamuseum.org.