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Events
5 past eventsSee All
- Next Generation Farmers Retreat
Pilgrim Heights Retreat
Friday, December 11 at 3:00pm - Fourth Annual Garlic Fest
2183 320th St, Madrid, IA
Saturday, November 7 at 3:00pm - Farminar Series
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Tuesday, November 3 at 7:00pm - July 25 Field Day at One Step ...
One Step at a Time Gardens
Saturday, July 25 at 4:00pm - Next Generation Planning Event
Berry Patch Farm
Sunday, July 12 at 2:00pm
Sara Andreasen Hopkins I'm interested in barn quilts and painting one of our corn crib or barn. I'm also wondering if other PFI members are interested and if we could get a workshop on this?
Bob Krause
As an old farm boy, I am happy to be am admirer or Practical Farmers of Iowa!
Bob Krause
Democratic Candidate for US Senate
Practical Farmers of Iowa
http://practicalfarmers.blogspot.com/200
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No one has said it better than PFI farmer Ron Rosmann, who, with his wife, Maria, is PFI's Sustainable Agriculture Achievement award winner for 2010. Ron wrote the following for The Practical Farmer newsletter in the Fall of 1988. ...
www.businessweek.com
Local food businesses play a much more critical role in economic development than commonly thought, a new report shows.
Practical Farmers of Iowa The office is full, but we are not full of Suzi's homemade cookies.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Rick Hartmann from Small Potatoes Farm delivered a hit farminar on Tuesday night. Marketing a 3 Acre production vegetable farm in Central Iowa. In case you missed it, here is the Direct URL: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p37
All Farminars archived and available at www.practicalfarmers.org/farminar
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Practical Farmers of Iowa PFI members featured on the Land Stewardship Project Podcast #70
www.landstewardshipproject.org
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Interactions with Farminars: How-To Guide (8 Minutes)
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p27
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Reasons Practical Farmers of Iowa's Next Generation Retreat is for you...
Ryan
Don’t miss these great FREE Crossroads seminars at the central library tomorrow. Meeting room #3.
FOOD ADVOCACY
10:00 - 11:00
Dave Murphy from Food Democracy Now and Lynn Fallon from I’m For Iowa discuss the importance of grassroots efforts to change our food production system on the national level.
THE NIMAN RANCH MODEL
1...1:00 - 12:00
Sarah Willis from Niman Ranch gives you an in-depth look at Niman Ranch’s model of bringing sustainable agriculture to a national market.
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Francis Thicke, accomplished organic farmer from Fairfield Iowa and candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture gives you an overview of his farm as a model to how a farm can be designed and managed to not only protect, but to enhance the natural resource base.
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Farmer Wade Dooley gave an excellent presentation about his farm and adding an enterprise.
Check out 1:23:00.
Where will the farmers of the next generation come from? How can PFI help them be get established and successful?
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p45
connect.extension.iastate.edu
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Our next "Farminar" features Wade Dooley, a young Iowa Farmer returning to his family crop/livestock operation, shares his personal story of adding a new enterprise.
Features 39 Full Color photos of his farm enterprise and family.
A must-see online event.
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/far
7PM CDT
Tuesday, Dec-1, 2009
connect.extension.iastate.edu
RECENT ACTIVITY
Practical Farmers of Iowa wrote on Next Generation Farmers Retreat's Wall.
