Sustainable Alternatives to Conventional Agriculture

Via the University of Minnesota’s Organic Ecology

Sustainable Alternatives to Conventional Agriculture

Thursday, April 8

7:30-9:00pm

Bell Museum, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis campus

Rural areas are experiencing significant population losses, and industrial farms are not sustainable in the long term. What can be done to revitalize rural communities and ensure environmental stewardship in farming practices?

Speakers: Kathy Draeger, Director of the Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships and Big Stone County farmer; Jim Kleinschmit, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Rural Communities program.

Film: A Farm for the Future (2009). Investigates how to transform a family’s farm into a low-energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.  Originally aired on the BBC’s Natural World series.  50-minute run time.

Posted March 23, 2010 by El Dragón in Farmers.
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About El Dragón

Barth Anderson is chief blogger at Fair Food Fight. He has roughly 20 years experience with the natural foods industry, working as grocery stocker, produce buyer, marketer, and organic certification coordinator at various natural foods co-ops across the country. His two novels, THE PATRON SAINT OF PLAGUES and THE MAGICIAN AND THE FOOL (Bantam) are available through Amazon.com.

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