[FIG-ALL] Illinois Specialty Crop, Agritourism, and Organic conference Jan 6 to 9

[Lisa Gruver]

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:02:11 -0600
Subject: [Illinois Local Foods] Fwd: U of I News: Illinois Specialty Crop, Agritourism, and Organic conference Jan 6 to 9

  




The brochure and full agenda of the 2010 Illinois Specialty Crop, Agritouris, and Organic Conference (Jan. 6 - 9) is finally available!!!


Here's details on the conference.    Thanks to Carrie Edgar (Adams/Brown County Extension) for sending this.


-- Debbie




Debbie Hillman, Coordinator 
Illinois Local & Organic Food & Farm Task Force
Co-chair, Evanston Food Policy Council
847/328-7175
DLHillman at sbcglobal.net









 
Date: December 9, 2009
 
Source: Michelle Wander (217) 333-9471; mwander at illinois.edu
News writer: Debra Levey Larson (217) 244-2880; dlarson at illinois.edu
 
 
Illinois Specialty Crop, Agritourism, and Organic conference Jan 6 to 9
 
URBANA – The Illinois Specialty Crop, Agritourism, and Organic Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield January 6 through 9.
 
The conference will include special interest tracks of presentations on fruits, vegetables, herbs, agritourism/marketing, irrigation/business management, and two new tracks devoted to information on organics.
 
“The organic tracks will feature speakers who have blazed the trail for organic vegetable production, marketing, and season extension,” said University of Illinois soil scientist Michelle Wander, who is director of the U of I Agroecology/Sustainable Agriculture Program and one of the conference presenters.
 
Pete Johnson of Pete’s Greens and Steve Pincus of Tipi Produce open the organic session on Thursday. “Pete is a leader in the ‘locavore’ movement and a serious innovator in winter production and the use of moveable greenhouses on his Vermont farm,” Wander said. “Steve Pincus has developed creative marketing channels in Madison and Chicago including Homegrown Wisconsin and a fabulous CSA.” 
 
Johnson and Pincus will also speak in a session on integrated production along with Matt Kleinhenz from Ohio State University.  Kleinhenz will discuss organic greenhouse production, composting, grafting and irrigation. 
 
“One of Friday’s sessions will feature a farmer panel and a presentation by USDA scientist Gene Lester on organic production and food quality, and by Val Beasley of the U of I on why agriculture needs to keep it clean,” Wander said.
 
The afternoon will include an “Organic Research Roundup” with presentations on resources, weeds, transition, disease management, and soils by Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, John Masiunas, Dan Anderson, Ed Zaborski, Darin Eastburn, and Michelle Wander, all from the U of I.
 
Visit www.specialtygrowers.org/ for a complete agenda and information about how to register.


 
Debra Levey Larson, media/communications
University of Illinois
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
1301 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-2880
dlarson at illinois.edu
www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/
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