Attending OEFFA Conference This Weekend

Another great conference is going on this weekend in historic Granville Ohio. The Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) is having their annual conference. This Saturday and Sunday, February 19th and 20th, the main conference starts, with up to 14 concurrent sessions. Today was a pre-conference workshop on starting a CSA called “The ABCs of CSAs”.

There will be two keynote addresses. Joan Dye Gussow, author of “This Organic Life; The Feeding Web”, and “Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture: Who Will Produce Tomorrow’s Food?”, will give a talk entitled “Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?” The other keynote will be given by Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens, who made the change from conventional to organic farming in 1993. They currently are producing on around 1400 acres, raising organic grains and meats. They will give an address called “Living Upstream: Decision-Making on an Organic Farm.”

These sessions, the keynotes and the workshop on CSA are all being recorded by Organic Voices, owned and operated by Barry and Judy George, themselves sustainable small produce farmers from Wisconsin. I am actually here working with them. Every recording will be available for sale at a very reasonable price, either individually, or as a package deal. I’ll give more details on Organic Voices later.

I encourage you to checkout OEFFAs website and information about the conference. Lot’s of good things happen when people connect at these events. This one will be no exception. I look forward to posting more on the conference when it is over.

www.oeffa.org.

I hope you all have a great weekend. I know that I will!

Chris