Attending a Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farmers Conference

Reader Contribution by Becky And Andy
Published on March 15, 2010
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We are still decompressing from the MOSES Organic and Sustainable Farming Conference. On Wednesday of last week, we sent the kiddos over to Grandma’s house and headed to La Crosse, about a 3 hour drive. We rented a room at a B&B about 45 minutes north of La Crosse. We got there just before 4 pm and checked in. It is a lovely little farmhouse out in the boonies owned and operated by a nice couple. If you follow the link, our room was the “English Country” room. We got a nice deal because it’s the off season and took advantage of a stay away from the standard hotel.

The next day we had a wonderful homemade breakfast and headed off to La Crosse. We were going to a full day of a single class called Organic University. This is extra aside from the main conference itself and we each took a class that interested us. Andy went to Dairy Herd Nutrition and Rations. I went to Understanding the Biological Connection between Plants and Soil.

Now, I could talk about what we learned, which was vast. But I’m going to focus on the people that we met and things that we learned from them. In my class, I happened to sit next to a man in his 60s from North Dakota. He and I got to talking about what brought us here and our farms. He is a certified organic crop farmer but wasn’t always that way. I asked him why he decided to go organic back in the ’80s.

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