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![Workshops](conference/workshops.jpg)
- Saturday Morning Workshops
- Tomato Grafting
- Slow-Growth Poultry
- Finding Food Truth
- CSA Planning
- Sunflowers for Fuel
- Organic Dairy Grazing
- Organic Certification
- Organic Apples
- Intercropping
- Plants for Health
- Biodynamics
- Plastic Bottle Greenhouse
- Field Crops
- Cancer & Diet
- Saturday Afternoon Workshops
- Vet Tips
- Seed Starting
- Weed Control: Vegetables
- Greenhouse Building
- Cover Crops in Organics
- Soda and Sauerkraut
- Water Analysis & Design
- Market to Restaurants
- Energy Crisis Deconstruction
- Local Milk Model
- Biodynamics
- Early Vegetables/Greenhouse
- Grain Weed/Pest Mgmt Q&A
- What's in Store?
- Web 2.0 World
- Organic Inspectors
- Electrify Chores
- Herdshares Legalities
- Sunday Morning Workshops
- Localized, Direct Market Production
- Livestock Pasture Management
- Soil-Plant-Animal Connection
- Building Green
- Biodynamics Q&A
- Natural Horse Care
- SPIN Farming
- Ecological Revolution
- Tourism Marketing Strategy
- Soil Health & Our Future
- Horse Care Q&A
- Food Safety
- Women Farmers Q&A
- Be Popular at Market
- Sunday Afternoon Workshops
- Perennial-Cropping
- Gardening
- Bramble Production & Marketing
- Field Crops
- Sheep & Parasite Resistance
- Food Demo
- Establishing a Green Mission
- Record Keeping
- Homemade Electricity
- More details
![Fred Kirschenmann](conference/fred.jpg) ![Fred Kirschenmann](conference/fredtext.jpg)
Long time organic farmer, and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, Fred Kirschenmann manages his family's 3,500 acre North Dakota organic farm, 1,000 of which is in native prairie and is used for grazing livestock. The rest of the land is planted in eight-to-nine crops each year, in three different rotations. In addition to his past work as director of the Leopold Center, he helped to found Farm Verified Organic, Inc. (a private certification agency) and the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society. He has held many national and international appointments and has authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture. Fred’s keynote address will acknowledge that change is forever constant, and discuss how the ecological farm movement, knowing this, is poised to deal with the effects of industrialization and the current energy situation.
![Melinda Hemmelgarn](conference/melindatext.jpg)
Dynamic dietitian and award winning writer Melinda Hemmelgarn founded and formerly directed the Nutrition Communications Center at the University of Missouri, and blazed the trail for blending nutrition education with media literacy. Her provocative yet practical columns and national conference presentations cover cutting edge nutrition and food safety issues. In 2007, Melinda received an American Dietetic Association Award for Excellence in Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. Melinda will discuss the current climate of food systems—one that has encouraged people to eat empty and unhealthy calories—and will provide a road map to eating “ecologically.” With humor, kindness, and enthusiasm, she will invite participants to "think beyond their plates" and better understand how daily food choices affect personal health and the planet the next generation will inherit.
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![Volunteers](conference/volunteers.jpg)
In exchange for 4 hours of work, volunteers may preregister for both days of the conference for only $50. (No
further discount applies, meals not included; preapproval necessary
to get this rate.)
For more information and to sign-up to be a volunteer, contact Renee at 614/421-2022, renee@oeffa.org.
Preregistration by February 14 required. Limited opportunities.
![Kids Welcome](conference/kids.png)
Participants are encouraged to bring the family! The OEFFA kid's conference
offers a variety of exciting workshops for ages 6-12.
Younger children
are invited to spend time in the Playroom, organized
by Rebecah Freeling, founder and teacher of Briar Rose Children's
Center, a Waldorf pre-school in Columbus. (There will be no charge for participation in these programs
if a parent or sibling over the age of 12 volunteers four hours during
the two days.)
- Saturday, February 21st
- 9:00 am Welcome & Announcements
- 9:30-11:30 am Workshop Session I
- 9:30-11:30 - Long Workshops
- 9:30-10:25 - Short Workshop Session IA
- 10:35-11:30 - Short Workshop Session IB
- 11:30-12:30 pm Exhibit Hall Break
- 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
- 1:45-3:45 pm Workshop Session II & III
- 4:00-5:15 pm
- Keynote Session, Awards & Announcements
- Fred Kirschenmann:
- Opportunities in a New Agricultural Climate
- 5:15-6:15 pm Business Meeting*
- 6:15-7:15 pm Dinner
- 7:30-9:15 pm
- Contra Dance with the Back Porch Swing Band
- and 30th Anniversary Party!*
- Sunday, February 22nd
- 8:30-9:15 am Non-Denominational service
- 9:30-11:30 am Workshop Session IV
- 9:30-11:30 am - Long Workshops
- 9:30-10:25 am - Short Workshop Session IVA
- 10:35-11:30 am - Short Workshop Session IVB
- 11:45-12:45 pm Lunch
- 12:45-1:30 pm Exhibit Hall Break
- 1:30-2:30 pm Workshop Session V
- 2:45-4:00 pm
- Keynote Session and Announcements
- Melinda Hemmelgarn:
- Feast or Famine: A Fork in the Road
- 4:00-4:15 Closing Remarks
- *OEFFA members are invited to attend the business meeting
and the dance. All other conference events require registration fee.
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Granville School
248 New Burg Street
Granville, OH 43023
The facility offers rooms for large group sessions, workshops, exhibitors,
dining, kids’ activities, and entertainment, all under one roof.
![Granville](conference/granville.jpg)
The conference will be held in the charming town of Granville,
Ohio, about thirty miles northeast of Columbus.
![A Place to Stay](conference/placetostay.jpg)
- For Special Conference Rates:
The Buxton Inn
- 313 E Broadway, Granville
- 740/587-0001
- ($75-$85, 0.86 mi.)
Courtyard by Marriott
- 500 Highland Blvd, Newark
- 740/344-1800
- ($80, 4.3 mi.)
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Soil Fertility: Through the Food Chain
February 20, 2009
10 am - 4 pm
Miller's Essenplatz
1058 E. Main St., Newark
Soils are the foundation for all food and farming. Join Jerry Brunetti for
this exploration of the links between soils, plants, animals and human health.
Starting with an analysis of soil and forage tests, Brunetti will describe
how all life is built upon mineral and biological fertility. He’ll go
on to describe how the nutrient density of plants grown in fertile systems
is in turn the foundation for animal health and productivity. Finally, he will
show how the nutrient dense plants and meats on our own tables are the cornerstone
of human health.
![Sponsors](conference/sponsors.jpg)
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