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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg@igg.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] TRANSITIONING TO BIODYNAMIC AG CONFERENCE Nov 12-14, DURHAM, NC
  • Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:15:33 -0500

November 12-14, 2004 TRANSITIONING TO BIODYNAMIC AGRICULTURE - AN ECONOMIC PATH TO QUALITY BIODYNAMIC FARMING & GARDENING ASSOCIATION 2004AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE

The annual conference of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association will be held on November 12-14, 2004 at the Durham Armory, 220 Foster Street, in downtown Durham, North Carolina. The Association, the oldest organic farming and gardening organization in North America, will present a conference detailing the steps involved in converting a farming operation to biodynamic practices, focusing specifically on the importance of "quality" in agriculture. The conscientious consumer is willing to pay higher prices for higher quality food in today's market, and the biodynamic approach to agriculture is ideally suited to meet this call for quality.

Over the course of the conference, the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association will bring together an impressive lineup of leaders in the fields of organic and biodynamic agriculture, research science, and marketing. Well-known farmer, marketing innovator, writer, and educator, Joel Salatin, will deliver the keynote speech, "Holy Cows and Hog Heaven." Janet Barkercomes from Switzerland to share her expertise with a talk entitled "Imaging Methods: Can These Show Quality?" Janet is internationally recognized for her work using the Steigbilder imaging method to determine optimum quality of medicinal herbs for pharmaceutical production. In his presentation on "The Whole Farm Individuality,"Hugh Williamswill draw upon his experience at Threshold Farm in Philmont, New York to illustrate the processes involved in developing a self-contained biodynamic farm in a setting that combines CSA, an orchard, and livestock. Steffen Schneider, manager of Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, New York, and Rachel Schneider, a member of the general management team of the Hawthorne Valley Foundation, round out the weekend with a talk that considers "How Does the Concept of Quality Affect the Development of Hawthorne Valley Farm?"

Workshops on conversion to biodynamic practices, compost tea brewing, on-farm value-added products, relationship marketing, Steigbilder imaging, seed growing, intensive grazing, integrating orchards into the farm, working consciously with natural rhythms of the earth and solar system, biodynamic cut-flower production, and meaningful marketing will provide opportunities to learn from leaders in the agriculture of the future. An all-day series of presentations on Friday, November 12 will address the needs of the practicing farmer who is interested in making the transition to biodynamics. Experienced practitioners, including Hugh Courtneyof the Josephine Porter Institute for Applied Biodynamics, Gena Nonini, Steve Storch, and Paul Sansone, will work with a panel of beginning biodynamic farmers to present workshops on converting to biodynamics, large-scale composting with the Pfeiffer BD Compost Starter, making and applying the biodynamic spray preparations, and more. Please join us as we explore these and other whole-systems approaches to growing, marketing and community-building based on this eighty-year effort in alternative agriculture. Talks and workshops, lively entertainment, good food, and the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with folks from across the country, promise to make this an exciting and informative weekend.

The Biodynamic Association would like to thank Sally and John Fallon of New Trends Publishing; Nathan and Beth Corymb of Turtle Tree Seeds; Raphael Gardens at Rudolf Steiner College; and the Demeter Association for the generosity they've shown in sponsoring the conference.

Hosted by the josephine porter institute for applied biodynamics
Supported by the mid-atlantic biodynamic food and farming conference

For more information, see www.biodynamics.com


Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, inc. 25844 butler road, junction city, or 97448 (888)516-7797; biodynamic@aol.com; www.biodynamics.com





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