Liz Carlisle and friends at the Seed Bank at 7 pm on 2/3/15

Forty years ago, corporate agribusiness told small farmers to “get big or get out.” But 27-year-old David Oien decided to take a stand, becoming the first in his conservative Montana county to plant a radically different crop: organic lentils. Unlike the chemically dependent grains American farmers had been told to grow, lentils make their own fertilizer and tolerate variable climate conditions, so their farmers aren’t beholden to industrial methods.

Liz, David, and the growers will be on hand to present Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America, with a lentil and heritage grain tasting by farm-to-table Chef Claudia Galofre-Krevat.