PLEASE FORWARD!

You're invited to attend the upcoming Healthy Food, Local Farms Conference

WHEN: Saturday, October 2, 2004, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST

WHERE: Louisville, Kentucky at the University of Louisville, Strickler Hall

COST:  $35.00 per person (limited scholarships available).

Conference fee includes an all local breakfast and lunch catered by Eve’s Sweet Revenge.

Keynote Speaker:  

Jim Hightower

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.  For more information, visit www.jimhightower.com.

John Ikerd

John Ikerd Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri Columbia.  Dr. Ikerd has written numerous papers and journal articles, making him one of the foremost in his field.  He is a vital proponent of sustainable agriculture.

David Kline, with special introduction by Wendell Berry

David Kline is a farmer, naturalist, and writer; he and his family farm 120 acres and operate a 40-cow organic dairy near Mt. Hope, Ohio.  Kline is the author of Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer’s Journal and Scratching the Woodchuck: Nature on an Amish Farm; he is also an editor of Farming Magazine. 

            Tod Murphy

Tod Murphy is the founder of the Farmers Diner, a Vermont diner that spends more than 70 percent of all its food dollars on local farmers and small-scale producers.  The mission of the Farmers Diner is to support rural economic vitality, to create new farms, and to create new opportunities for existing farms.   With the diner, Tod is seeking to recreate a robust infrastructure that supports local farmers and food producers.  For more information, visit www.farmersdiner.com.

Workshop Topics Include:

• Local food and farm economy - Environment - Health and food safety

• Corporate myth busting - Exposing the dangers of industrialized agriculture

• Local food facts - Revealing the benefits of a local food and farm economy

Special Events:

• Friday night Social: Wine-tasting and dinner at the Smith-Berry Winery.  $30 per person.

• Saturday night Fundraiser: An Evening with Jim Hightower.  A benefit for the Sierra Club and Community Farm Alliance.  $50 per person.

Registration Deadline: Friday, September 24.

To Register: send registration fee and the following information to:

                Community Farm Alliance

                614 Shelby Street

                Frankfort, KY 40601

Please make check payable to Community Farm Alliance.

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Specify meal preference:

• non-vegetarian
• vegetarian
• vegan

Hotel Accomodations:

• Community Farm Alliance, Cumberland Chapter of the Sierra Club

• Underwritten by Brown-Forman

• Additional sponsors:  Citizens Action Coalition's Indiana Campaign for Economic Justice, EarthSave Louisville, Fox Hollow Clinic, Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Kentucky State University, Partners for Family Farms, Sierra Club Water Sentinels.