Feel free to kindly pass this on to interested parties. Visionary Farmers and Visionary Consumers How organics is transforming our world
Saturday, February 16, 2008 - one-day conference 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 89 Chestnut St., U of Toronto Conference Centre (Wheelchair Accessible) Presented by Canadian Organic Growers $65 ($85 after Jan 15); COG members $55 Includes an organic lunch and mini-market! Info and registration: www.cog.ca 1-888-375-7383 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why are more farmers and consumers choosing to go organic? Join us as we share how organic is making a difference in how we eat and live. You will be stirred with inspiringstories, the difficult challenges and the proven visions that are bringing organic food from the field to the table, creating new careers, markets and a more livable planet. Is there a role for you? Keynote speaker: Helge Hellberg, Executive Director of Marin Organic Marin Organic is an award winning, innovative organization of local farmers that is realizing a vision for the first all organic county in North America. They have inspired schools, businesses and governments to take a stand for an alternative way of doing business and in doing so show us what a sustainable food system looks like. Panels on topics including “Where’s the local in organic?”; “Being organic in a non-organic world”; “Can organics feed Ontario”; and “Ensuring organic integrity”. Panelists include: Ann Clark, Gavin Dandy, Dag Falck, Wayne Roberts, Wally Seccombe. Plus a career track – meet the intrepid “new” farmers who, despite lacking land and farming skills, took the leap and followed their dreams of being organic farmers. For a complete agenda, see www.cog.ca Sunny Lam Environmental consulting, research, writing (MES) t: 416 845 0818 Toronto, ON Canada Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/sunny.lam/sla.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080110/3d3a10e3/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
