I mentioned to a friend that issues pertaining to sustainable and regenerative agriculture are sometimes discussed on this list, and she asked me to post a message about the event below in case it might be of interest to some Sierra list members.  I hope this posting is acceptable.  Thank you.
 
Cindy
 
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I'd like to share information about the 2016 WFAN annual conference, Women and Permaculture: Making a Living in Harmony with the Land, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, at Lied Lodge and Conference Center, Nebraska City, NE (a half hour south of Omaha). Friday options include three field tours and two on-site intensives, a local wine and cider tasting, a local foods tasting event, and a free screening and discussion of the permaculture film "Inhabit."  Keynote speaker Karryn Olson-Ramanujan will give a talk titled Co-Creating our Regenerative Future: Why Permaculture? Why Women? Why Now? She and other presenters will focus on how we can create a regenerative agricultural system together.  And yes, some men do come to the conference.
 
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Cindy Hildebrand
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Ames, IA 50010

"So completely has the whole State passed beneath the plow, so quickly assumed the appearance of one vast farm, that one who thus studies the Iowa of to-day realizes with difficulty the strange picturesque wildness of fifty or sixty years ago...The whole flora of the prairie went down to rise no more..." (Thomas Macbride, 1895, from THE EMERALD HORIZON)


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