Sowing the seeds of our food sovereignty

This is the theme of the Ohio Eco­log­i­cal Food and Farm Association’s (OEFFA) 33rd con­fer­ence. Held at Granville’s Mid­dle and High Schools on Feb. 17–19, the con­fer­ence will fea­ture inter­est­ing and infor­ma­tive work­shops, speak­ers and more.

Events will fea­ture Slow Money Alliance founder and Chair­man Woody Tasch who will dis­cuss Slow Money, a national effort to encour­age sus­tain­able finan­cial invest­ments that sup­port local, community-based food and farm busi­nesses. To date, $4.5 mil­lion has been invested in 16 small food enter­prises through Slow Money’s national gatherings.

Cur­rently, Sunday-only and pre-conferences tick­ets are avail­able; full-weekend tick­ets are sold out, as are all meals. But there are still some great speak­ers and work­shops left, so get online and reg­is­ter today. To learn more, visit oeffa.org. The con­fer­ence is open to the pub­lic and prices vary.

Accord­ing to its web­site, OEFFA was formed in 1979 and is a membership-based, grass­roots orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cated to pro­mot­ing and sup­port­ing sus­tain­able, eco­log­i­cal and health­ful food sys­tems. Its mem­ber­ship includes farm­ers, con­sumers, gar­den­ers, chefs, teach­ers, researchers, retail­ers and stu­dents. Together, they are work­ing to recre­ate a regionally-scaled farm­ing, pro­cess­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem that moves food from farm to local fork.

Log onto the web­site and take a look around. It is a fan­tas­tic resource; you might just want to book­mark it so you can stay tuned to learn more about OEFFA’s programming.

Tues­day Trip­pier lives in Delaware, is a writer, a mother of four and has a spe­cial inter­est in green living.

Posted by Tuesday Trippier on Feb 3 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.