Birke on the Farm ISBN #978-0-9846647-0-2
STORY SYNOPSIS:
An eight year old boy asks hard questions about our food system and travels
down the road of discovery to find out that the reality of the industrial food system is less than picturesque. First,
it leads him to organic and sustainable farming methods and then, on to a stage from which he begins to change the world with
his views on "What's Wrong With Our Food System." This journey takes him around the globe
where he vows to make a difference, "one kid at a time."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Birke Baehr is a twelve year old internationally know youth advocate for
organic food and sustainable farming practices. Birke's mission is to educate others about the problems of the industrialized
food system, while presenting solutions for that system through advocating the alternative choices of local, organic, and
sustainable food.
Birke was named one of six child environmentalists who have already made a change in the world
by TreeHugger.com Featured on numerous websites, podcasts, blogs as well as newspapers and magazines, Birke's 2010 TEDx
Next Generation talk, "What's Wrong With Our Food System," is the most viewed TEDx talk on YouTube,
with over 1,000,000 views. Birke begins another speaking tour and will be appearing in two documentary films:
Bite Size, about childhood obesity and Choice Point, a film about "being the change one wishes to see
in the world."
