Flier for workshops with Scott Sheely and George Hurst

[Bendfeldt, Eric]

Dear Shenandoah Valley Food and Farm Network colleagues,

 

Hope you are doing well. 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 21^st 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/

 

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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