March 6th | Florencia Ramirez: Eat Less Water
Sunday, March 6, 3 P.M.
The Wildling is thrilled to host Florencia Ramirez, author of Eat Less Water, for a special presentation and conversation with Steve Beckmen, the winemaker behind Beckmen Vineyards, at the Museum on Sunday, March 6, 2022, 3 p.m. as the Wildling Museum kicks off a year of climate-focused exhibitions and programming.
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 70 percent of freshwater flowing to the fields and ranches that grow our food. Eat Less Water takes the reader on a journey to meet America’s food producers growing food with less water. Florencia exposes the seldom-seen connection between dwindling water resources and the choices we make when shopping for groceries for our families and offers us the solution that begins in the kitchen.
Following the program will be a book signing and environmental pop-up shop curated by Ramirez, along with a biodynamic wine tasting by Beckmen Vineyards for attendees.
General admission is $20.00. Current Wildling Museum member admission is $15.00.
Please email info@wildlingmuseum.org with any questions. This presentation will not be recorded.
About Florencia Ramirez
Florencia 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, an agricultural town on the Pacific coast that smells of celery, strawberries and fertilizers with her husband and three young children.
About Steve Beckmen
As both a winegrower and a winemaker, Steve Beckmen has spent over 28 years overseeing Beckmen Vineyards’ acclaimed estate vineyard and wine program. From his work planting and cultivating the winery’s renowned Purisima Mountain Vineyard to his focus on Rhône varietal wines and his adoption of biodynamic farming techniques, Steve has earned a reputation as one of Santa Barbara County’s most innovative winegrowers. His efforts have helped to establish the area as a world-class winegrowing region, while also earning Beckmen Vineyards acclaim as one of North America’s leading producers of Rhône varietal wines.