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- From: "Nan Johnson" <nan AT olemiss.edu>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: conference in Miss.
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:41:09 -0700
Hey y'all - if you are anywhere near Mississippi in
December, come on by....we will roll out the red carpet!
The Mississippi Sustainable Agriculture
Working Group holds its inaugural conference - "Agriculture that lasts:
How to keep farming" - on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002 from 9-4 at the Yazoo
City's Triangle Conference Center. Registration fee of $20 includes
luncheon featuring Mississippi-grown food. To register send check or money
order to MS-SAWG, PO Box 701, Oxford, MS 38655. For more info, contact
Errol Castens at 662=281-1069 or email mssawg AT hotmail.com.
Over thirty speakers (farmers
and specialists) will present sessions on topics ranging from pastured
poultry, cut flowers and mushrooms, and planting vegetables for profit, to
integrating pasture with llivestock and crops, influencing government policy,
and weed control. Two key note speakers are John Ikerd, professor emeritus
of agricultural economics at Univ. of Missouri, and Steve McKaskle, organic
cotton farmer. Both large and small scale growers will
benefit.
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- conference in Miss., Nan Johnson, 09/27/2002
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