[Orange_County_Permaculture] Oct 9-13 2013 141st annual California State Grange Convention

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Over 200 Grange Halls are located throughout California. If you live close to a Grange and are interested in local agriculture, the Halls are a great resource and they need new young members to help revive them and make them Green Granges like the one in Santa Cruz , a map of the Grange Halls is included and attend the 141st annual California State Grange Convention

141st annual California State Grange Convention will be celebrated October 9 – 13 at the Sebastopol Grange. The Grange is located at 6000 Sebastopol Road in Sebastopol, which is located 50 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County.
http://www.californiagrange.org/convention/

Granges throughout the State of California. Membership has varied over the past 75 years and currently stands at approximately 12,000 in 200 local, Community Granges.

What is the Grange?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Grange_of_the_Order_of_Patrons_of_Husbandry

As America's first agricultural fraternity, Grange service to agriculture, communities and the nation is built upon democratic expression and organization. Each member has the opportunity to help formulate community, state, and national policies. They where the first organization to have women as equal members in 1867, 

Many rural communities in the United States still have a Grange Hall and local Granges still serve as a center of rural life for many farming communities.

http://www.californiagrange.org/convention/
This year’s theme will be “Rooted in History… Seeding the Future”. Highlights include

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