Fw: 16th Annual California Farm Conference

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

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What:       16th Annual California Farm Conference
Theme:  Healthy Farms - Healthy Communities:  Ingredients for Success
When:       November 17-19, 2000
Where:  Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
Cost:       Range: Half Day Short Course $25; Basic 2-Day Registration: $90

Information & Registration:  Tel:   (530) 888-9206,     fullcircle at jps.net
www.CaliforniaFarmConference.com

Press Contact:  Michael Straus, 415-663-8343, email: Info at BeyondOrganic.com

Program:
         Over 40 seminars, workshops, short courses and tours, on topics
including:
Specialty Crops and Products, Crop and Livestock production, Sustainable
Farming Practices, Farmers Markets, Farm and Food Policy, and Education
about Family Farms and Food Systems

Keynote Speakers:
     *   Joel Salatin - third generation alternative farmer in Virginia's
Shenandoah Valley; Polyface farm has been in the Smithsonian magazine and
ABC's World New Tonight.
     *   Allen Garcia - certified organic rice grower on 1050 acres at the
Cosumnes River Preserve in the Sacramento Delta region, recipient of a Bay
Institute award for bringing farmers and environmentalists closer together.
     *   Michele Gale-Sinex - Past Communications Director at UW-Madison's
Sustainable Ag Center, currently member of Redefining Progress, dealing with
growth-based models of progress and externalization of costs in the boom
economy.
     *   Desmond Jolly - Director, UC Small Farm Program, well-known and
articulate advocate for small-scale family farm operations. An Ag Economist,
he served as vice-chair of the National Commission on Small Farms and helped
develop the National Small Farm Strategic Plan for the USDA.

Program features include:
     *   Tours in Sonoma County on sustainable agricultural, innovative
marketing and nurseries
     *   Short Courses on Agri-Nature Tourism, Sustainable Grape Production,
Improving the Farmer-Retailer relationship, and Biotechnology
     *   The Shone Farm, SRJC Demonstration Farm, including organic vineyards
     *   Regional Wine & Food Tasting, featuring the bounty of the North Bay

Sponsors include: Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Occidental Arts &
Ecology Center, UC Small Farm Center, UC Cooperative Extension, Santa Rosa
Junior College, Golden Gate Marketing Association, USDA Farm Service Agency,
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service, Southland Farmers Market
Association, Southern Sonoma County Resource Conservation District

California Farm Conference is a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting the long-term viability of California's family farms.  The 1999
Farm Conference, held in Berkeley, attracted over 700 participants.
The Conference is open to the public.

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Michael Straus, Director
Beyond Organic*
Innovative Marketing for Environmental Agriculture
22890 Highway 1, Marshall, CA 94940
Phone: 415/663-8343 | Fax: 415/663-8346
Email: info at BeyondOrganic.com
Website: www.BeyondOrganic.com

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