Needed - workshop ideas

Donna Meyer (dmeyer@win.bright.net)
Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:27:39 -0600

I am education outreach coordinator for our local chapter of the Sustainable
Farming Association. I have requested ideas on how I can reach out to the
other Sustainable and Organic farmers who are afraid to come out of the
closet for fear of one reason or another.

I have another idea that may work if you can help me. We are centered in an
area of mainly dairy and crop farms. The Board of Directors of the SFA is
not diversified enough to come up with ideas for winter workshops and/or
summer field events. Does anybody have any ideas for events that might
interest the sustainable farmers?

Somehow, I have to be able to reach out to those "closet" farmers. I think
maybe we all have a tendency to think within paradigms and sometimes need a
little push to step outside those realms. And if we can sponsor events that
might be of broader interest to farms, it may be a way of reaching those
other 1,000.

I would really appreciate any ideas you could give me.

Donna Meyer
e-mail dmeyer@win.bright.net