Come and exchange seeds with other local growers.  There will be annual and perennial plants for sale, local produce for sale, and local food to sample.  There will also be a raffle to benefit the Library (we are still accepting donations for the raffle).  

Come have a great time and support your local library.  We hope to see you all there!

Come support your local library and bring your checkbooks and spend some time socializing with your community neighbors.  If you cannot attend the dinner, please send in your donation to:  El Rito Library, P.O. Box 5, El Rito, NM  87530.

THANK YOU!

3rd Film Series - "King Corn" (What is in our foods?)

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm.  Written by King Corn

A discussion will follow after the film.

Desserts, popcorn and drinks will be served. Hope to see you there!

2nd Film Series - "Unnatural Selection" (What is in our foods?)

A failed GM cotton crop prompts farmer suicides in India.  GM pigs are born with ghastly mutations in the US.  Wind borne GM canola threatens farms in Canada, forcing one farmer to the Supreme Count.  A Company breeds giant GM salmon, despite its threat to natural fish populations.  Alarming findings convince a scientist that GMOs may lead to a catastrophe.  And corporations deceive the public, while trying to patent and control the food supply.  By Bertram Verhaag and Gabriele Krober. (60 minutes)

A discussion will follow after the film.

Desserts, popcorn and drinks will be served.  Hope to see you there!

Other upcoming films:

• Your Milk on Drugs - Just Say No!
• Don't Put That in Your Mouth
• Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals
• You're Eating What?

 "The World According to Monsanto" - (What is in our foods?)

Monsanto's controversial past combines some of the most toxic products ever sold with misleading reports, pressure tactics, collusion, and attempted corruption.  They now race to genetically engineer (and patent) the world's food supply, which profoundly threatens our health, environment, and economy.  Combining secret documents with first-hand accounts by victims, scientists, and politicians, this widely praised film exposes why Monsanto has become the world's poster child for malignant corporate influence in government and technology. 

Desserts, popcorn and drinks will be served.  Hope to see you there!

Other upcoming films:

• Your Milk on Drugs - Just Say No!
• Don't Put That in Your Mouth
• Unnatural Selection
• Hidden Dangers in Kids' Meals
• You're Eating What?

Thank you all who have supported the El Rito Public Library for the past 25 years.  May you all have a safe and very Prosperous New Year!

Santa is checking his list twice, so you better not be naughty - but nice!