Responsible Fashion Series invites you to participate in a tour of the Sustainable Cotton Project Farm with an international group of fashion educators and industry members.

Thursday, October 30 
8.30am - 4.30pm

The Farm Tour is $70 per person and $50 for students.

All participants must register and pay for the tour here: http://www.sustainablecotton.org/tours.html

A Complementary Bus provided by Sustainable Cotton Project departs from Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct 29 at 3:30pm. The bus arrives in Firebaugh the evening before the tour and will return to Los Angeles the evening of Thursday, Oct 30 at approx. 8:30 pm.

Pick up location Wednesday, Oct 29 at 3:30pm:

ASU FIDM 
ASU CA Center Grand
919 S. Grand Ave 
Los Angeles, CA 90015

We will stop for dinner at Harris Ranch https://www.harrisranch.com/

There are menu options for all diners.  

Accommodations in Firebaugh, CA

Best Western Apricot Inn 

Book your own accommodations directly.  Room rates start at $140 and can be shared. Note, you may want to wait to book until The Cotton Project confirms they have enough participants (after September 12) to run the bus and host the tour! Update October 1: Tour confirmed!

https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/book/hotels-in-firebaugh/best-western-apricot-inn/propertyCode.05638.html

A bus will pick the group up from the Apricot Inn the morning of Thursday, Oct 30 at 8:30am to take us to the farm.

The tour of the farm will include:

• meeting directly with cotton farmers and scientists

• learning about biological and regenerative practices

• seeing cotton being harvested, ginned, baled and ready for shipment to a spinner

• touching a range of products made from California Cotton

• a local lunch

At the conclusion of the tour, the bus will return to Los Angeles arriving in downtown LA / ASU FIDM at approximately 8:30pm.

We hope you will join us for this very special tour with colleagues from around the world and around the valley.

Please reach out to any of the following for questions:

Stefanie Mallon and Ian King: Responsible Fashion Series  stefanie.mallon@uni-goettingen.de

Dennita Sewell, Director, ASU FIDM Dennita.sewell@asu.edu

Lesley Roberts, SoCal Fibershed hello@socalfibershed.org

Checklist for Participation:

• Register with Sustainable Cotton Project for the Farm Tour

• Notify Dennita, Lesley, or Stefanie of your participation and if you will be joining us for the bus to Firebaugh! Email Lesley here >>

• Book hotel accommodations at Apricot Inn for the night of Oct 29

This is a special opportunity to see the farm-to-fiber origins, and we hope you can join us! This will be a fruitful experience both on the farm tour and with the colleagues we will be traveling with. Please reach out if you have questions!