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ANNUAL MEETING - March 5 & 6, 2010
March 5 - 6, 2010
Innovative Farmers of Ohio will hold its Annual Meeting March 5 and 6, 2010, in Athens, Ohio.
The Power of Agriculture:
Sustaining the Future
Highlighted will be bus tours to:
- Hocking College to see its energy projects
- AceNet to see the entrepreneurial spirit at work from those processing, packaging, and marketing their products
- Snowville Creamery and Chris Chieml's goat cheese facility to see how raw dairy products are processed, packaged and sold
- The famous gardens at Green Edge, Amesville, and other green growers.
The buses will as well visit the Russ Lab at Ohio University to watch algae turned into oil. There will also be on-site demonstrations of small grist mills grinding locally grown grains and bio-diesel fuel made from spent oils and/or sunflower seeds.
There will be a cheese tasting contest and a Taste of Athens where over 30 vendors will offer their foods to taste, the Athens Farmers Market will be on-going Sat., March 6.
There will be exhibitors displaying relevant products and information, breakout sessions on alternative crop production, carbon credit woodlots, new applied technologies and trends for the future on-farm production, and how tofund such enterprises!
Finally there will be a hog roast on Saturday featuring J.B. King Family's famous, delicious, home-grown pigs and good local musical entertainment.
This promises to be the biggest ever IFO event with plenty to see and consume!
SAVE THE DATE!
A keynote speaker has yet to be determined but it is enough to feature southeastern Ohio and all that it has done to further living productively and sustainably on the land.
Land that does not always want to give up its gifts to the lazy but releases its fecundity to those who are innovative, energized, and eager to discover the power of agriculture. |
