Webinar - The Top 10 Things You Need to Think about When Getting Started in Farming

The Missouri Beginning Farmer Program will jump start their internet teaching on February 21st with a free webinar from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on "The Top 10 Things You Need to Think about When Getting Started in Farming" presented by Chris Blanchard. Don’t miss this opportunity! Chris was the wildly popular keynote speaker at the 2011 Great Plains Growers Conference in St. Joseph on the topic of "Values and Scales in the Local Foods Market Place." He also participated in two pre-conference workshops to the conference on "Farming Smarter, Not Harder" and the "CSA Mini-School" as well as giving a breakout session on "Organic Under Glass and Plastic." Chris owns and operates Rock Spring Farm, a twelve acre organic market farm north of Decorah, IA selling a wide variety of vegetables and herbs through a 200 member CSA, food stores, and a farmers' market since 1999. He also coordinates the presentations for the Upper Midwest Organic Conference. To join in this webinar, see the directions below this article.

The Missouri Beginning Farmer Program’s internet teaching will include monthly webinars of topics of interest to beginning farmers. Other tools on the internet teaching will include "live chats" with successful farmers, forums on topics such as "grazing", "pastured poultry", "regulations" and more. Also included on the internet teaching site will be hand out materials, PowerPoint presentations and pictures from past and future face-to-face short courses. Over time we anticipate adding a farmer mentoring component as well.

The Missouri Beginning Farmer Program internet teaching will be free for the first 3 months. After that time, there will be an annual membership of $60/year.

Please join The Missouri Beginning Farmer Program in the webinar "The Top 10 Things You Need to Think about When Getting Started in Farming" with Chris Blanchard, Rock Spring Farm, Decorah, IA. All you need to join the webinar is a computer with speakers.

There are only 100 spaces available for the webinar.

Invited By: Debi Kelly
When: Monday 21 February, 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada)

To join the webinar go to: http://univmissouri.adobeconnect.com/r49979451/

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