UVFC Events

Friday, April 3 at 5pm

Upstairs at the Co-op

Upper Valley Food Co-op
193 North Main
White River Junction, VT 05001
802/295-5804

This Forum is Free and open to the Upper Valley community. Please register in-store, or call 802-295-5804 or email info@uppervalleyfood.coop

What’s the Buzz?!?! Upper Valley Food Co-op has the opportunity to team with Dartmouth Graduate Students in offering a forum to discuss various research topics. These students will share their expertise and offer the diverse Upper Valley Community a chance to reflect and exchange understanding. Students hope to better appreciate impacts their research threads may lead to.

Braden Elliott will speak on the relationships between grasses, shrubs, trees & animals, using Native American managed landscapes as models for restoration projects.

Braden Elliott is an ecologist trying to find out why there are self-maintaining meadows in the middle of the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, one of the world’s most productive timber regions. He works closely with Tribal and Federal land managers in western Oregon. He is passionate about uncovering new knowledge about how the world works, and using that knowledge to improve natural resource management practices and policies. He is a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth, and holds a Bachelors in Anthropology from Missouri State University as well as a Masters in Applied Anthropology from Oregon State University.

Monday, April 6th at 6pm

Acupuncture and Herbs: Ancient Medicine for the Present and Future

Upstairs at the Co-op

Upper Valley Food Co-op
193 North Main
White River Junction, VT 05001
802/295-5804

This talk is Free and open to the Upper Valley community. Please register in-store, or call 802-295-5804 or email info@uppervalleyfood.coop

As the interplay between genetic disposition and environment becomes more clearly understood, western science is moving towards personalized medicine. For time immemorial, Chinese scholar-physicians have recognized this dynamic and employed appropriate diagnostic and treatment strategies honoring each individual.

Using “case studies” of patients, we will explore how Chinese medicine physicians think about health and disease, anatomy and physiology, acupuncture and herbs. We will also talk about “convergence” medicine – the existing partnership and forthcoming synergy between eastern and western medicines – and what this means for a patient in the modern medical system.

Britton Mann holds a doctorate in acupuncture and Oriental medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist in Vermont and New Hampshire. He has a spent much of his life studying the healing arts, including a seventeen year study of yoga, Japanese and Chinese martial arts, and qigong. Prior to practicing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, he was a massage therapist and yoga teacher in Norwich and New York City. He returned to the Upper Valley this past summer after practicing Chinese medicine in Portland, Oregon.