Cultivating Comparative Advantages for Agriculture and Farm-based Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century workshops
Bendfeldt, Eric
Dear Shenandoah Valley Food and Farm Network colleagues,
Hope you are doing well. We are still trying to promote these upcoming workshops with Scott Sheely and George Hurst so any additional promotion of the workshops you can provide would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Eric
On behalf of the planning committee and workshop sponsors, I have attached a flier and link for the upcoming workshops with Scott Sheely of the Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board and George Hurst of Oregon Dairy Farm. The workshops are entitled, Cultivating Comparative Advantages for Agriculture and Farm-based Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century. http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ebendfel/Fliers/Sheely_Hurst_final.pdf
Scott Sheely, Executive Director of the Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board, will discuss how to optimize comparative advantages of agriculture and farm-based entrepreneurship with manufacturing, educational, tourism, alternative energy, natural resources conservation and farmland protection sectors. Scott assisted with the development of the Lancaster Prospers strategic plan, which plans for many local entities in Lancaster County to be involved, clustered and networked to better coordinate their efforts toward a set of county-wide agricultural and community economic development goals. http://www.lancastercountywib.com/
George Hurst and his family own and operate Oregon Dairy Farm in Lititz, PA. Oregon Dairy is a real multi-generation working 500-cow dairy farm in Lancaster County that includes a family friendly supermarket, restaurant, gift shop, bakery, ice cream shop and agritourism attractions, but also innovations in manure handling and alternative energy such as anaerobic digestion, methane recovery and composting of food waste. George and his family have been leaders in environmental stewardship and farmland protection in Lancaster County for more than 50 years. http://www.oregondairy.com/
Registration is free, but the deadline for registration is Monday, March 26, 2012 at 12:00p.m. To register, please call the Northern District Office at (540) 432-6029 Ext. 106 or 107 or your local Extension Office.
For more information, please contact Eric Bendfeldt at (540) 432-6029, Tom Stanley at (540) 463-4734, Jason Carter at (540) 245-5750, or your local Extension office.
Please share the flier and information about the workshops as you see fit. The flier is sized as an 8.5” by 14” document for your reference.
Best regards,
Eric
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Eric S. Bendfeldt
Extension Specialist, Community Viability
Virginia Cooperative Extension
2322 Blue Stone Hills Drive, Suite 140
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801
Phone: (540) 432-6029 Ext. 106 Cell: (540) 209-4705
Fax: (540) 432-6251
Email: eben...@vt.edu
Serving the Commonwealth of Virginia
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