Virginia Biological Farming Conference, March 3 & 4, 2000
Montebello Virginia
Co-sponsored by the Virginia Association for Biological Farming and
the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
We have a wonderful conference lined up. Soil microbiologist Dr. Elaine
lngham's presentation
"Understanding the Soil Food Web" will be keynote you won't want to miss!
Please visit the following for detailed information about our conference in
Nelson County Virginia. Feel free to forward this information to everyone
you think would be interested.
Links off the directory and homepage.
The general public can attend a Friday evening session with Dr. Ingham, for
just $10. So forward to folks that might not attend a whole conference.
(The Friday evening talk is included for folks attending the whole
conference.)
The full conference is $40, including breakfast and lunch. Childrens
program $20, with smaller children arrange child care. Deadline for
pre-registration is February 19, 2000 (postmark date). You may register
after that date, or pay at the door, for the same $40. 00 fee, but no meals
will be included - so be sure to bring your own food!
Lodging: Camp Blue Ridge offers heated group cabins (four to six people
sharing a room) for just $17.00 per person per night. Bring your own
bedding and towels, or arrange to have Camp Blue Ridge provide linens for
an extra $7.50 per person.
We will also have our annual VABF Membership Meeting at the conference on
Saturday afternoon. Attendance at the conference is not required to attend
the VABF meeting. If you are not a VABF member you are still welcome.
We also have a children's program and can arrange child care. See webpage
for more details.
Jeanne Nye Harris
The Virginia Association for Biological Farming
1715 Blair Street
Christiansburg VA 24073
540 633-6633 w & fax
540 633-0089 h
nyej@vt.edu
<http://www.vvac.org/vabf/>
<http://www.buygreen.org/>
"How we eat determines to a considerable extent how the world is used."
Wendell Berry
"Sustainability is a question rather than an answer," as the late Robert
Rodale was fond of saying. Sustainability is a direction rather than a
destination, like a star that guides the ships at sea but remains forever
beyond the horizon. The "question of sustainability" can be asked of any
ongoing activity or process. It can be asked of "conventional" agriculture
and of any proposed "alternative" agriculture: Is it sustainable? Is it
moving toward the goal of sustainability?
John Ikerd
"If there is to be a bright future for
our children and grandchildren, it will come from
consumer support of producers who work in concert
with nature -- organically, sustainably, and humanely."
-Howard Lyman
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