The National Farmers Union-Ontario is holding it's annual convention and AGM on Saturday, March 5 in Kingston.
Farmer panelists Emily Dowling, Oliver Haan, and Chris Wooding will focus on how farmers, from gardeners to grain and livestock producers, can work for environmental and social sustainability and financial viability. They will examine how farmer-to-farmer networking, and community engagement are political acts that can change the discussion about the future of farming.
The panel will explore innovative, leading edge ideas and models that influence their farms and communities, tried and true methods, practices, philosophies and approaches that carry their farms forward into the future, and the key challenges they face.
Dowling grew up on a family farm and has over a decade of organic vegetable growing experience. Haan produces ecologically raised pork using “old school production methods to ensure sustainability of the family farm for now and the future,” and he also sits on the Board of Ontario Pork. Wooding runs Ironwood Organics, a small farm located in eastern Ontario that produces organic cereals including wheat, rye, oats and barley.
You can RSVP at nfuontario.ca or call Sarah Bakker, General Manager, at 1-888-832-9638.
