A roundtable conference will organize teams of farmers and
researchers to address key questions on growing and marketing
organic fruits and vegetables Feb. 21-22 in Statesboro, Ga.
The Southeast Farmer-Researcher Roundtable on Organic
Horticulture will be in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education
Center on the Georgia Southern University campus.
The roundtable will feature a University of Georgia survey,
conducted in fall 2002, of organic fruit and vegetable growers
and other farmers interested in switching to organics. The report
on the survey results will follow a keynote address by Jane Sooby
of the Organic Farming Research Foundation.
The Georgia Organics Conference will follow the roundtable, Feb.
22-23, at the same site.
The roundtable registration fee is $40. Scholarships are
available for nonprofit representatives and farmers to attend
from each Southern state.
For more information, call Marie Bumback of Georgia Organics,
Inc., at (706) 340-5179 or (706) 227-2677. Or e-mail her (at
marie@georgiaorganics.org
).
