For instance, $50 pays for a Cambodian farmer to attend a mushroom farming training seminar, with over two days of instruction, a mushroom training manual, and spores to get started growing a cash crop that can mean the start of a better life for an entire family.
Come and hear the final presentations of UC Berkeleys first Farm Bill Graduate Seminar and learn about emerging marker bills and pressing issues in our nations largest omnibus food and agriculture legislation.
The conference offered over 60 farm-related seminars given by an array of presenters from around the country, some crusty, some shy, but all founts of knowledge in their specialties.
This could be achieved by professional development of scientific and extension personnel, establishment of demonstration blocks, on-farm training, seminars, field days, study visits with people from countries interested in fostering this crop in Asia and the Pacific island nations, and by sharing information through publications.
If you missed Thursday's Cornell Small Farms Program seminar, Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice with Leah Penniman, Soul Fire Farm, it is available online.
National seminar good farming practices.
The mood was positive at the all-day conference, which included seminars on mechanized farming, organic land care, biotechnology and "community organizing for positive change".
Those participating in the LiB program will be able to enter the festival grounds a day early, and join the artist in building a demonstration garden that will include a seminar on the farm-to-festival food production model, long-term ecological planning for the festival grounds, as well of course, planting a few oak trees.
A seminar on off-farm activities was held in Santiago (September 1999).
If you missed Monday's Horticulture Section seminar, The Challenges of Farming in New York City with Yolanda Gonzalez and Sam Anderson, Cornell Cooperative Extension, it is available online.
