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An Evening with Farmer Daniel Botkin
Daniel Botkin is a lifelong teacher, counselor and athlete who, eight years ago, turned to farming full time. Laughing Dog Farm, located on the hilltop site of an historic commune in Western Massachusetts is today a three-acre, organic market garden and teaching site promoting micro-intensive, permaculture style growing methods to steward the land and produce gourmet quality, heirloom fruits, vegetables and flowers around the calendar.

Join Nancy Hanson of the Hampshire College Farm Center to learn everything you ever wanted to know about Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs).

Join Robin Clairmont of the Food Bank of Western Mass to learn about your local food bank - one of the few in the country to operate its own farm.

Sharon Gensler of NOFA/Mass shares the great work being conducted every day by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts. NOFA is a community of farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, consumers, environmentalists, and other activists who care about the quality, flavor, and nutrition of great food. Find out how you can be a more farmer-friendly consumer and healthy eater!

Philip Korman and Devon Whitney-Deal of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) will share how we all can help our farms to be vibrant and successful so our families and communities benefit. CISA will present how buying local food and other farm products keeps money in the local economy, reduces oil-dependent transportation costs, and ensures a healthy food supply.

CISA will be joined by Local Hero participant Charlie Thompson, Director of Dining Services for Amherst College, who will be sharing his creative strategies for going green, buying local, and reducing the school’s carbon footprint.