Market Farming

[Marcie Rosenzweig <fullcircle AT jps.net>]

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>For Immediate Release                          Contact: Sean McGovern
>Monday, January 10, 2000
>614/267-3663
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>OEFFA Announces 21st Annual OEFFA Conference
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>The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) is proud to announce
>its upcoming agricultural short courses on Greenhouse Production and Free
>Range Poultry. The courses will be held March 4th & 5th, 2000, at
>Northridge School, in Johnstown, Ohio.
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>The Greenhouse Shortcourse on Saturday, March 4th will be taught by Steve
>Moore of Wilson College CSA.  Steve's passive solar greenhouse structure
>feeds over 100 families, and is designed with simplicity in mind to reduce
>maintenance and energy use.  Year round production and seed starting cycles
>and biointensive nutrient management strategies for healthy products will
>be discussed, as well as construction and maintenance concerns.  Steve will
>also address how this low-energy structure saves time and generates income.
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>The Free-Range Poultry Shortcourse on Sunday, March 5th  will be taught by
>Herman  Beck Chenoweth  of the Resilience Institute and Locust Grove Farm.
>Herman is the author of Free-Range Poultry Production and Marketing and a
>noted direct farm marketing expert.  The seminar  will feature the Modern
>American Free-Range Production System for chickens and turkeys.  The system
>was developed by Beck-Chenoweth at his research farm in Southern Ohio where
>up to 4000 birds per year have been raised and direct-marketed using this
>system.  Thanks to a generous grant from the USDA's North Central
>Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE), thirty-five
>seminar participants will receive Beck-Chenoweth's book and companion video
>at no charge.
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>Visit OEFFA's homepage at http://www.greenlink.org/oeffa for complete
>program information and registration forms.
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>These short courses are part of  OEFFA's 21st Annual Conference themed "Our
>Biological Heritage, Seeds of the Past, Seeds for the Future."  The weekend
>will also feature experts from Ohio and around the country sharing
>sustainable agriculture production and marketing techniques through a wide
>variety of workshops and keynote speeches.  The OEFFA conference is Ohio's
>largest annual sustainable and organic agriculture gathering of
>approximately 700 consumers, farmers, and retailers.   The Conference is
>sponsored in part by the Resilience Institute and Ohio Earth Food.
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>Registration fees for the conference begin at $45, with volunteer discounts
>available. Child care is available. Early registration deadline is 2/10/00.
>On site and single day registrations will be accepted. For a copy of the
>workshop schedule, registration forms, or trade show information, contact
>OEFFA at:
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>PO Box 82234, Columbus, Ohio 43202
>Phone 614/267-3663, fax 614/267-4763, or email at oeffa AT iwaynet.net.
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>OEFFA is a non profit organization founded in 1979 as a broad based
>membership association of farmers, gardeners and consumers which conducts
>Ohio's organic certification program, and hosts numerous educational
>programs for sustainable and organic farmers, gardeners, and their
>customers.
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>Sincerely,
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>Sean McGovern, Executive Director
>Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
>PO Box 82234 Columbus Ohio 43202
>(ph) 614/267-3663  (fx) 614/267-4763    email:  <oeffa AT iwaynet.net>
>www.greenlink.org/oeffa
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>For OCIA/OEFFA Organic Certification services in Ohio, contact OEFFA
>Certification Coordinator, Sylvia Upp at 419/853-4060, fax 419/853-3022 or
>email <oeffasylvia AT cs.co>
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>For OEFFA's Newsletter submissions and/or ad rate sheets, call Newsletter
>Editor Anne Bulford at (ph/fx) 740/993-2871 or email <anneb AT angelfire.com>.
>Call first for faxes.
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Marcie A. Rosenzweig
Full Circle Organic Farm
Auburn, CA