REGISTRATION FOR Community Gardening Growing Communities Workshop in Great Falls
Kittle, Thelma
Greetings,
Earlier this week I sent out details for a community gardening workshop. Attached please find the Registration information for the Growing Communities workshop on April 5, 6, & 7. We have been working diligently to keep the registration costs as low as possible. We have worked the registration fee down to $140.00. This is a wonderful bargain and includes lodging for two nights, breakfast/lunch/dinner and snacks during the workshop, and all workshop materials. This workshop will be delivered by the American Community Gardening Association out of Boston.
Sponsors include WSARE, AERO, MSU Extension, and Montana Farmers Union. Please join us in Great Falls for an in-depth, hands-on workship for leadership development, community building, and organization development through community gardening.
Please call if you have any questions about the workshop.
Thank you,
Rene
Rene Kittle
MSU Flathead Reservation Extension
701 B 1st Street East
Polson, MT 59860
(406) 275-2756 (Phone-No Voice Mail)
(406) 675-2700 Ext. 7375 (Phone & Voice Mail)
(406) 883-1491 Fax
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Montana State University and the Montana State University Extension prohibit discrimination in all of their programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital and family status. Issued in furtherance of cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Douglas L. Steele, Vice President of External Relations and Director of Extension, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717
From: gardens-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:gardens-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Karl Sutton
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:27 PM
To: gardens-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Gardens Alliance] Community Presentation -- Western Montana's Local Food and Farm Economy
Dear Community Member,
Western Montana farmers lose approximately $31 million each year and spend nearly $80 million buying farm supplies from suppliers outside the region. Moreover, western Montana consumers spend approximately $749 million buying food each year and purchase $680 million on food from outside the region. If western Montana consumers purchased only 15% of the food they need for home use directly from the region’s farmers, this would generate approximately $66 million of new farm income to the region.
The High Stakes Foundation, Alternative Energy Resources Organization, Community Food and Agriculture Coalition, Nourish the Flathead, New West, and Lake County Community Development Food and Agriculture Center invite you to an evening with Ken Meter, a farm and food system analyst with the Crossroads Resource Center. Meter recently completed a Western Montana Local Farm and Food Economy study that covers Flathead, Lake, Missoula, Ravalli and Sanders Counties. The study highlights the economic opportunities and challenges that exist in western Montana’s food and farm economies.
Please join us for a presentation and discussion on our local food and farm economies. The presentation will occur March 16th in Ronan at the Ronan Middle School Auditorium, 421 Andrew ST NW, from 6pm—8pm. Contact Karl Sutton, Food and Agriculture Program Coordinator, at Lake County Community Development, 406-676-5901 x114 for more details.
Karl Sutton
Program Coordinator
Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center
A program of Lake County Community Development
407 Main Street SW
Ronan, MT 59864
406-676-5901
www.mmfec.org
www.lakecountycdc.org
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