SEE Expo 2009: Presentations
18.08.09
Friday, Aug. 21
Year-Muster Local Foods, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Regional gardening expert Patryk Battle discusses the afield range of options and perspectives, from farmers markets to CSAs.
Biomass Electricity: Dollop Our Economy & Ecology, 1:30-2:30 p.m. John Bonitz, farm outreach and policy stand behind with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, shares the facts, including actions you can take for a simple-energy future.
Agriculture Action: Economics and Local Foods , 3:30-4:30 p.m. John Swann, co-proprietor of Greenlife Grocery and owner of Maple Creek Farm, discusses the impact of townsman food production on local economies, trends in the natural-foods industry, marketing your goods and more.
Incubator Farms: Growing New Farmers in America, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Aaron Newton, co-initiator of A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil , explains how gardeners can cover the leap to market farming through affordable access to land, shared equipment and more.
Source: Mountain Xpress