- January 15-19, 2009
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- Event Title:
- The Agriculture Course: An Intensive Study of the Origins and Future of Biodynamics
- Description:
- Taught by Mac Mead, Steffen Schneider, and Malcolm Gardner. In-depth study of Rudolf Steiner’s approach to agriculture.
- Location:
- Chestnut Ridge, NY
- Event Contact:
- Mimi Satriano
- Phone: 45-352-5020 x15
- Email: mimi@threefold.org
- Website link for more info:
- www.pfeiffercenter.org/workshops
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- January 21-24, 2009
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- Event Title:
- Southern SAWG Annual Conference:
Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference
- Description:
- This conference will provide you with the practical tools and solutions you need to be
successful in your farming enterprise, your community foods projects and your advocacy
and outreach work. It will provide sustainable production and direct marketing information for horticultural and
livestock producers, enterprise management lessons, farm policy education, community food
systems development information and the opportunity to meet and learn from peers from across
the region. Come see why so many return to participate in this conference year after year!
- Location:
- Chattanooga Convention Center, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Event Contact:
- SSAWG
- Phone: 678-494-0696
- Email: info@ssawg.org
- Website link for more info:
- www.ssawg.org/
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- January 31, 2009
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- Event Title:
- Center for Rural Culture’s Fourth Annual Grower’s Workshop
- Description:
- January 31, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for Rural Culture and the Ellwood Thompson’s Natural Market, this conference provides an educational opportunity for new and experienced growers who wish to grow produce and provide value added products for market. Participants will gain valuable knowledge about the business of growing for market. This is a popular workshop that fills up fast, so register early.
Admission is $35 in advance by January 28th, 2009 (Pre-register online at the Center’s web site above) or $45 at the door (Same day registration does not include lunch).
The Center for Rural Culture, a 501c3 (non-profit), is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of educating, promoting, and inspiring members of the community to sustain a culture that builds individual and local economy, protects natural and historical resources, and maintains the rural character of the community.
- Location:
- J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Western Campus 1851 Dickenson Road Goochland, VA 23063
- Event Contact:
- Center for Rural Culture
- Phone: 804-332-3144
- Email: info@centerforruralculture.org
- Website link for more info:
- www.CenterForRuralCulture.org
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- February 13, 2009
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- Event Title:
- Permaculture Design Course
- Description:
- Sustainability Strategies for the Blue Ridge
Permaculture Trainings in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Permaculture Design Course Spring 2009 with Ted Butchart, Christine Gyovai, Dave Jacke, Dave O'Neill and Joel Salatin.
Offered by the Blue Ridge Permaculture Institute.
Dates: Feb. 13-15, Feb. 28-Mar. 1, Mar. 14-15, Mar. 27-29, and Apr. 4-5, 2009
For more information, email tygerlilley@gmail.com
or visit the website www.blueridgepermaculture.net
- Location:
- Charlottesville, VA
- Event Contact:
- Blue Ridge Permaculture Institute
- Phone: 434-296-3963
- Email: tygerlilley@gmail.com
- Website link for more info:
- www.blueridgepermaculture.net
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- February 27-28, 2009
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- Event Title:
- 10th Annual Virginia Biological Farming Conference
- Description:
- View the full-color Biological Farming Conference flyer here . . .
View all of the pertinent information online here . . .
The Virginia Biological Farming Conference began in 2000
at Camp Blue Ridge in Montebello up in Nelson County.
This conference is an offspring of an earlier program called
the Virginia Sustainable Agriculture Conference which was
held from 1985 to 1997. All of these conferences have been
co-sponsored by Virginia Cooperative Extension and by the
Virginia Association for Biological Farming. All of these
conferences have promoted ecological agriculture.
Perennial concepts which are always promoted at the Virginia
Biological Farming Conference include natural pest
controls, the use of cover crops, crop rotation, ecological
livestock production, specialty crops, Community Supported
Agriculture, careful soil management, direct marketing,
compost, mulch, careful management of animal manures,
family labor, on-farm research and careful financial
management. Practices and products which are never promoted
at the Virginia Biological Farming Conference include
the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, herbicides,
petroleum-based fertilizers, growth hormones, antibiotics,
genetically modified organisms, irradiation and sewage
sludge.
The theme of the Tenth Annual Virginia Biological Farming
Conference is Community Based Foods Systems. We
are very fortunate to have Will Allen with Growing Power
Inc. from Milwaukee and Chicago serving as our keynote
speaker.
Growing Power, Inc. transforms communities by supporting
people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in
which they live through the development of Community
Food Systems. These systems provide high-quality, safe,
healthy, affordable food for all residents in the community.
Growing Power develops Community Food Centers, as a
key component of Community Food Systems, through training,
active demonstration, outreach, and technical assistance.
They have urban farms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and in Chicago, Illinois. Food production occurs in the
organization's demonstration greenhouses, rural farm site in
Merton, and urban farms in Milwaukee and Chicago. They
also distribute produce, grass-based meats, and value-added
products through the activities of over 300 small family
farmers in the Rainbow Farmers Cooperative, and the organization's
year-round food security program the Farm-to-
City Market Basket Program.
Other conference speakers will discuss the use of parasitic
nematodes for natural pest control, ecological livestock
raising, greenhouse production of naturally-grown vegetables,
small-scale production of small fruit, managing family
and farming, sheep and goats, permaculture, ecological
weed management, selling at farmers’ markets, agriculture
economics, vermi-composting, marketing organic produce
to restaurants, farmscaping for biological insect control,
grass-fed beef, gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, certification
programs and building healthy communities.
As always we will have a lively youth program, an awesome
trade show and plenty of opportunities for networking
with ecological farmers from Virginia and other states.
- Location:
- Sheraton Richmond West Hotel, Richmond, VA
- Event Contact:
- Andy Hankins
- Phone: 804-524-5962
- Email: ahankins@vsu.edu
- - OR -
- Marilyn Buerkins
- VABF Registrar
- 5146 Plank Road
- Natural Bridge, VA 24578
- 540-291-4333
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