Eat Local Food: Michigan State University Organic Reporting Session

Our friend, Vicki Morrone of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, has asked us to share this opportunity with you. The Organic Reporting Session at Michigan State University, to be held this Friday, March 1, is a chance to have your voice be heard. There will be a facilitated discussion to identify areas of interest to organic farmers, a presentation by Maureen Wilmot from Organic Farming and Research Foundation, an on-site lunch featuring MSU Organic Farm greens and if there is interest, a tour of the new MSU hoophouse. See Vicki’s note and all the details below:

Hope all of you can come and join in this inaugural event-we need your experience at the table and ideas!! Please share too-we need all types of organic farmers!

Hey Friends-

YOU WILL Not want to miss this! March 1-Friday is the Organic Reporting Session at Michigan State University. This year we are offering a special chance to have YOUR voice heard!!!

We are offering a facilitated discussion with farmers like you-researchers and ag resource folks to identify priority areas for future organic Research! The program starts at 9:00 with research reports and a presentation by Maureen Wilmot from Organic Farming and Research Foundation. She will share with us, "Where have all the dollars gone?"- fill us in on what is happening on the Farm Bill development and how we can engage to find support for organic research with farmers.

Visit:

Www.ofrf.org <http://www.ofrf.org/> for info on her organization.

Whether you see a need for crop production, harvest, storage, scale, transport, marketing or distribution whether you are an urban farmer in Flint or a 500 ac bean farmer in Caro, we want to hear from YOU!!

The venue is at Michigan State University campus, Brody Hall, located just off Harrison Rd across from the conference center. Of course there is also the chance to catch up on what research and results are happening at MSU and visit with our Graduate students as they share their work via posters. Lunch is at Brody Café- featuring MSU's own Student Organic farms greens. If there is interest we will offer a tour of the new on-campus hoophouse growing organic herbs for the MSU kitchens. Social time will offer a Taste of Michigan.

All of this wonderfulness for $15 for students and farmers and $25 for others.

<http://www.michiganorganic.msu.edu/> TODAY!

Event will be from 9-5 and the discussion/priority setting will be from 1:30-3:00

Please share this with others via your newsletters and listservs.

We want to make this a great event to identify great research.

Please contact me with any questions.

All the best,

Vicki

Contact Information:

Vicki Morrone

Organic Farming Specialist

Center For Regional Food Systems at MSU