ohio’s largest sustainable food and farm conference is feb. 18-19 Registration is now open for the Ohio
Ecological Food & Farm Association’s (OEFFA) 33rd annual conference, “Sowing the Seeds of Our Food Sovereignty,” Feb. 18-19 in Granville (Licking County). The state’s largest sustainable food and
farm conference, the event draws more than 1,000 attendees from across Ohio and
the Midwest, and has sold out in advance the past two years. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Woody Tasch and Andrew Kimbrell; more than 70 informative, hands-on workshops; two fea- tured pre-conference events on Feb. 17; a trade show; a fun and educational kids’ conference and child care area; locally
sourced and organic homemade meals; and Saturday evening entertainment. “Our conference title says a lot about
what we believe and what we’re trying to accomplish,” said OEFFA Program Director Renee Hunt. “Farmers, business- es, chefs and consumers are working together to reclaim our food sovereignty —
rebuilding local food systems and Ohio’s rural farming communities, demanding access to healthy, organic food and infor- mation about how that food is produced, and relearning sustainable agriculture practices that nourish our bodies, our com- munities and the environment.” Saturday’s keynote lecture titled, “Slow
Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Matter,” will be provided by Woody Tasch. Tasch is the chairman of the Slow Money Alliance and inspired the Slow Money movement by writing “Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered.” The Slow Money Alliance advocates for
sustainable financial investments that sup- port local, community-based food and farm businesses. So far, $4.5 million has been invested in 16 small food enterprises through Slow Money’s national gatherings. In the last year, $5 million more has been invested through Slow Money chapters. Sunday’s keynote lecture titled, “The
Future of Food,” will be provided by Andrew Kimbrell. Kimbrell is one of the country’s leading environmental attorneys and the founder and executive director of the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA). The Center for Food Safety pursues public education, policy advocacy and legal actions to curtail indus- trial agricultural production methods that harm human health and the environment, including genetic engineering. The conference also will feature more
than 70 hands-on, educational work- shops and cooking demonstrations with topics including: bramble and strawberry production; no-till farming; edible land- scaping; pest management; compost; pork, beef and lamb production; poultry nutrition; food preservation; food safety; social investing; farm and business plan- ning; renewable energy; mushroom pro- duction; season extension; mulch; cover crops; aquaculture; dairy health; record- keeping; Farm Bill policy; co-ops; small space gardening; companion planting; organic certification; fiber production; permaculture; tax planning; genetic engi- neering; field crops; grassroots organiz- ing; conservation funding; cheesemaking, and more. In addition, the conference will offer a
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three-part series of workshops about high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF), commonly known as “frack- ing,” which is an intensive extraction process that uses a high pressure chemi- cal cocktail to fracture rock to release nat- ural gas. The workshops are designed to educate farmers, landowners and con- cerned citizens about the environmental and social risks of this process, existing laws and regulations, and what actions can be taken by landowners and community organizers. For more information, go to
www.oeffa.org. To register or for more information about the conference, includ- ing maps, directions, workshop descrip- tions, speakers and a schedule, go to
www.oeffa.org/conference2012.php. For additional questions, contact Renee Hunt at 614-421-2022 Ext. 205 or
renee@oeffa.org.
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