A Celebration of Local Food and Farmers

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PHOTOGRAPHY about FoodEnvironmentposted on March 13, 2010 by Hillary

A Celebration of Local Food and Farmers

by Kayleigh MacSwain

Local grain distributor Speerville Mills baked for the conference in an outdoor wood-fired oven. Pictured: Doug Brown

Conference workshops were given on topics ranging from composting for field crops to cold storage, to the Agricultural Justice Project. Pictured:Ken Taylor (speaker)

Taylor's Taters at the Farmer's Market - Many farmers from the Maritimes come to ACORN every year to network with other producers and distributors

One of ACORN's main goals is to pass on the latest farming practices, skills, and technologies -technologies such as this handy vegetable buncher.

Heartnut seeds - good non-intervention crop that fits well into permaculture systems. A bonus: tastes like walnuts, but better!

The conference featured a Contra Dance with the Smoking Contra Band, an ACORN birthday cake, and a lot of celebrating

Click on the above slideshow to view photos and captions.

From March 4th - 6th the annual Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN) conference was held in Charlottetown, PEI. ACORN is a local organization which works to promote organic agriculture and support local organic farmers. The aim of the conference was to link up organic producers and consumers, as well as transfer knowledge to local farmers. The conference was organized into the following streams: livestock workshop, berry symposium workshop, crop/weed workshop, new growers series, soil series & gardening and greenhouse production.

Check out the ACORN website for transcripts of all the workshops.

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