Fwd: INVITATION TO NJHEPS SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROGRAM
Gary Feinland
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Bureau of Solid Waste, Reduction and Recycling
Sustainable Agriculture Workshop
October 29, 2010, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm
Hosted by Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ
Atrium - Performing Arts & Health Science Bldg
Come enjoy local food, chat with the farmers, learn how to compost and other sustainable agriculture related festivities.
FEATURING KEYOTE: Mikey Azzara, whose Zone 7 business connects New Jersey's organic and sustainable farmers with restaurants and groceries who want to provide the highest quality local ingredients to their customers. Azzara, formerly coordinator for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of NJ (NOFA-NJ), who also teaches school-garden classes at the Lawrenceville School and runs a local farmers' market, is uniquely qualified to serve as a lynchpin between growers and chefs. Zone 7, which takes its name from the state's agricultural zone, is entering its third year of making weekly stops for hard-to-get, reliably fresh and delicious ingredients from growers and producers around New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania — and then delivering them to grateful chefs and grocery owners.
8:45 am to 9:00 am ~ Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am to 9:15 am ~ Welcome From Sussex County Community College & NJHEPS
9:15 am to 10:00 am ~ Keynote: Mikey Azzara of Zone 7
10:00 am to 10:20 am ~ The Rocket Composter: onsite composter, Peter Marcalus
10:20 am to 10:40 am ~ FOR Solutions LLC: onsite composter: Nick Smith-Sebasto
10:40 am to 11:00 am ~ AgChoice: Sustainable Compost, Jay Fisher
11:00 am to 11:10 am ~ Coffee Break
11:10 am to 11:30 am ~ Create Your Own Farmers Market: Nancy Boone, Ramapo College of NJ & The Ramsey Farmers Market
11:30 am to 12:00 pm ~ Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Cheryl Rogowski of W. Rogowski Farm
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ~ Local Lunch Catered by Black Dirt Gourmet and Networking
1:00 pm to 1:30 pm ~ Rutgers and Rutgers Cooperative Extension's Agriculture Focused Educational Programs: Steve Kormar
1:30 pm to 1:50 pm ~ The Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group: Turning Waste Into New Products Through Innovation and Policy Change: Priscilla Hayes
1:50 pm to 2:10 pm ~ Sustainable Maple Syrup Production: Breeze Maple Farms: Rick Newman
2:10 pm to 2:30 pm Edible NJ: Nancy Painter
Please use the following link to register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=206331
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Terra Meierdierck
Program Manager
The New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
c/o Ramapo College of New Jersey - SSHS
505 Ramapo Valley Rd
Mahwah, NJ 07430
p: 201.684.7830
f: 201.684.7932
e: terra.me...@gmail.com
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Priscilla E. Hayes, Esq., Program Coordinator
Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group
Turning Waste Into New Products Through Innovation and Policy Change
Proud Winner of 2009 USEPA Environmental Quality Award
c/o Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
55 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
Fax: 732-932-8887
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http://enviropurchasing.rutgers.edu
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