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KRC's Farm & Food Conference

By KRC

10/28/2013

KRC's Farm & Food Conference

Saturday, November 2

9 am to 5 pm

Meridian Center

1420 E. Broadway Ct.

Newton, Kansas

Register today to reserve your spot at Kansas Rural Center's 2013 Farm & Food Conference, "Farming as if People Matter: How to Feed Ourselves, Build New Farms and Adapt to a Changing World."

In addition to an exceptional offering of educational and informational workshops ranging in topic from farm and food policy and grassroots advocacy, to soil health secrets and cover crop integration techniques, community gardens and Farm 2 School opportunities and challenges, pricing and marketing your local farm products, emerging issues in renewable energy, and how to support pollinators on your farm, the conference also includes a hearty lunch featuring locally-sourced ingredients.

In order to ensure an accurate meal count, please register for the conference by Monday, October 28.

Click here to register.

Registration is $45 per person, which includes conference materials and lunch.

This conference is presented by the Kansas Rural Center in partnership with Kansas Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension, Kansas Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Alternative Crops, and Farm Aid. Additional sponsors include Heartland Mill, Inc.

The Kansas Rural Center is a non-profit organization that since 1979 has promoted the long-term health of the land and its people through research, education, and advocacy that advances economically viable, ecologically sound, and socially just food and farming systems.

More information about the conference and other upcoming opportunities are available at www.kansasruralcenter.org. Or, please contact Project Coordinator, Natalie Fullerton at nfullerton@kansasruralcenter.org, or 402-310-0177.

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