Responsible Fashion Series invites you to participate in a tour of the Sustainable Cotton Project Farm Tour 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 by September 12: 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—approx. 8:30.

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.

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

• includes a local lunch

At the conclusion of the tour, the bus will return to Los Angeles arriving in downtown LA  for drop off at 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!

• 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!