Anyone going to this? -Allan >Status: U >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Greg Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Community Food Security Coalition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: PASA Conference - Feb. 8-9: Ikerd, Sneed, Fallon, Brinton, >Otten, Demas, Pais -- and YOU >Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:52:34 -0500 >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >Importance: Normal >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Please share -- pardon cross-postings. > > > >Healthy Farms and Communities > >Focus at 11th PASA Conference > > > >STATE COLLEGE, PA. - There's still time to join more than a thousand >farmers and friends who will convene for the 11th annual Farming for >the Future Conference Feb. 8 and 9 in State College, Pa. "Healthy >Farms, Healthy Communities: Our Link to a Sustainable Future" is >sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable >Agriculture (PASA) at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. > > > >Farmers, researchers and ag professionals will be featured in 48 >workshops in five time slots. Receiving lots of attention will be >"The Farmers' Own School of Family Farm Economics," with other >multi-workshop themes on human nutrition and food, soil and >livestock health, diversifying farm enterprises, grass-based >livestock and agriculture building community. > > > >Keynote speakers are John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural >Economics at University of Missouri, and Cathrine Sneed, executive >director of The Garden Project, San Francisco, Calif. Ikerd has >inspired many farm audiences with his message that a >"people-centered" agriculture allows farmers to succeed by utilizing >greater creativity, dignity of work and attention to social equity >(<http://hometown.aol.com/jeikerd>http://hometown.aol.com/jeikerd ). >Sneed will describe how teaching life-skills to former inmates >through commercial urban farming gives a real chance for them to >contribute to their communities once released. >(www.gardenproject.org) > > > >The four "Farmers Own School of Family Farm Economics" sessions are >part of eight workshops dealing with financial aspects of >sustainable farming. A dozen producers will come ready to share >their intimate financial details, using standardized reporting >forms. "I've been thinking about this for years," says series >organizer Jim Crawford of New Morning Farm, in Hustontown, >Huntington County. "I didn't want to have to settle for one >workshop. Finances demand more explanation." > > > >Experienced vegetable producers will share their farm's financial >records in two sessions on Friday. The intent is to allow others to >learn from their mistakes, successes and financial analysis. >Livestock and dairy producers will hear dairy, beef and poultry >farmers use the same financial reporting system to open up their >accounts. > > > >Vegetable farmers who are willing to their share finances will have >the chance in the conference's final workshop slot. To participate >in this "learning circle" format, contact the PASA office in advance >of the conference to obtain the suggested accounting format. > > > >Other economics topics include: > >-- "After 16 Years of Grazing: Keeping It Simple Works the Best." >Art Thicke reflects on managing life, work and finances on a >Minnesota family dairy farm. > >-- "Big Bucks and Capital on the Vegetable Farm." Five Pennsylvania >farmers explain their struggle with how and when they've made >capital improvements. These farms each started "from scratch" from >19 to 30 years ago. > >-- "Not Just Chicken Scratch-100 to 10,000 in Four Years." Canadian >farmers Ron and Sheila Hamilton will present two poultry farm >development workshops with the common heading The first is on how >they scaled up production from 100 to 10,000 birds in four years, >the second on how they marketed them. > >The conference will have informal "tracks" of multiple workshops on >the themes of ecological health; human health and healing; food >policy, politics and economics; and diversifying farm enterprises. >Highlights include: > > > >-Will Brinton of Woods End Research Labs will share his >international expertise on compost. He will present compost quality >benchmarks for agricultural use. In a second workshop, explain how >well-made compost, in a biologically monitored system, can achieve >new levels of productivity in intensive cropping systems. > >-Sally Fallon, founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, >will outline 11 common factors of healthy traditional diets. She >will point out dangers in modern soy foods. In a second workshop, >she will show how to implement traditional diets in your own kitchen >through breakfast foods, snacks, soups, salads, condiments and >beverages. > >-Dr. Gregory Pais, with 20 years experience in natural health care, >will explain his weaving together of clinical nutrition, herbal >medicine, and homeopathy. > >-Dr. Paul M. Otten, editor of Northland Berry News, is also a >professional health director. He will explore the link between soil >health and human health, explaining how depleted soils may be a root >causes of degenerative diseases and declining family farms. > >-Antonia Demas, teacher, nutritionist and anthropologist, has >developed food-based curricula for 30 years for socially and >ethnically diverse groups. She will show how early education can >help children reduce their risk of diet-related, chronic diseases. > > > >Also featured: K-8 youth program, by reservation only; scholarships >for young and beginning farmers; PASA annual meeting; and a PASA >awards banquet. Three of the conference meals will feature >sustainably, organically, and regionally raised foods. > > > >The Sustainable Trade Show and Marketplace will fill the center's >exhibit area with companies offering the latest agricultural >hardware, ag products and services. Farm and food advocacy >organizations will exhibit their efforts to build new markets and >educate consumers. As a convenience, vendors selling farm-fresh and >ag products will be grouped together. A "PASA Mercantile" display >will offer PASA-imprinted gear and feature signed books by major >conference speakers. > > > >For details, contact PASA, 114 West Main St., P.O. Box 419, >Millheim, PA 16854-0419, > >(814) 349-9856, fax (814) 349-9840, ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Complete details >and on-line registration at ><http://www.pasafarming.org/>www.pasafarming.org The conference >opens 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, and closes 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9. > > > >
