The 2010 VABF conference will be held February 19 and 20 in Danville Virginia. For more information on this year's conference visit http://www.vabf.org/annual-conference . There you can find a schedule of speakers, a vendor list and info on registration fees, hotels and lodging.
Michael Ableman is one of this year's featured speakers. An excerpt from the VABF page reads... "Michael champions the cause of sustainable agriculture through books, films, television and many public presentations. During the last 50 years we have lost over 5 million acres of arable farmland to real estate development in Virginia. If this trend continues, there will not be much farmland or forested land in this state. Can you imagine the entire state of Virginia as one connected urban and suburban sprawl? Michael Ableman will suggest that islands of land preserved for farming and forestry could exist within this future landscape.
Other Conference speakers will discuss permaculture, composting, seed saving, pastured poultry, raspberries, heirloom vegetables, beekeeping, biological controls of insects and diseases, tomatoes and mushrooms. We will have two presentations on food safety. We will have three of the best representatives in Virginia on hand to talk about state and federal government programs that support agriculture. We have two personnel from Berea College in Kentucky who can describe how small liberal arts colleges might become engaged in agriculture. We will have two excellent film presentations and one tour of an incredible composting operation."
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It's great to see that another meaningful conference is going to held. I must react from my realtor point of view to your statement about sold farmlands for real estate purposes. It is up to each realtor and his/her personal ethics which business he goes in. I, personally, am very green-oriented person and I am thankful that I am not the only one.
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