[Community_garden] Event Notice: Visionary Farmers and Visionary Consumers: How organics is transforming our world

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Visionary Farmers and Visionary Consumers
How organics is transforming our world

Saturday, February 16, 2008 - one-day conference
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
89 Chestnut St., U of Toronto Conference Centre (Wheelchair Accessible)
Presented by Canadian Organic Growers
$65 ($85 after Jan 15); COG members $55
Includes an organic lunch and mini-market!
Info and registration:  www.cog.ca   1-888-375-7383   conference at cog.ca

Why are more farmers and consumers choosing to go organic?  Join us as  
we share how organic is making a difference in how we eat and live.   
You will be stirred with inspiringstories, the difficult challenges  
and the proven visions that are bringing organic food from the field  
to the table, creating new careers, markets and a more livable  
planet.  Is there a role for you?

Keynote speaker:  Helge Hellberg, Executive Director of Marin Organic
Marin Organic is an award winning, innovative organization of local  
farmers that is realizing a vision for the first all organic county in  
North America.  They have inspired schools, businesses and governments  
to take a stand for an alternative way of doing business and in doing  
so show us what a sustainable food system looks like.

Panels on topics including “Where’s the local in organic?”; “Being  
organic in a non-organic world”; “Can organics feed Ontario”; and  
“Ensuring organic integrity”.  Panelists  include: Ann Clark, Gavin  
Dandy, Dag Falck, Wayne Roberts, Wally Seccombe.

Plus a career track – meet the intrepid “new” farmers who, despite  
lacking land and farming skills, took the leap and followed their  
dreams of being organic farmers.

For a complete agenda, see www.cog.ca




Sunny Lam

Environmental consulting, research, writing (MES)
t:  416 845 0818
Toronto, ON  Canada
Email:  sunny.lam at rogers.blackberry.net
http://homepage.mac.com/sunny.lam/sla.html
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