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*11th Annual Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference * *When:* January 29-30, 2010 *Where:** *Grayling High School, Garyling, MI *Why**:* Come hear success stories from farmers who are meeting the challenges of today’s agricultural world with new found passion and creative production, marketing, and management strategies. Friday’s Keynote speaker is Melinda Hemmelgarn, Nutrition and Health Communications Consultant. She is speaking on “Thinking Beyond our Plates: Critical Questions to Find Food Truth”. Saturday’s keynote speaker is Gary Zimmer, President of Midwestern Bio-Ag. He’s speaking on “Value Added: For You, For the Environment and for the Consumer”. The youth keynote speaker is Daniel Salatin, from Polyface Farm. He’s speaking on “Growing Up Joel’s Son: The Real Story”. The conference also includes two concurrent breakout sessions on an array of topics such as permaculture, hydroponics, raising organic chickens, grass based dairy, integrating animals into your farm, storage and season extension, farm to school, Saskatoons, farm sized wind energy and much more. *How:* Registration online is closed but on site registration is welcome (cash and check only). Cost: $60 for 1st person ($45 for additional group members), and $15 for children. On site registration does not guarantee lunch. *Grafting Tomatoes for Organic Open Field and High Tunnel Production Webinar* * * *When: *Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. *Where:* Online *Why:* David Francis of Ohio State University will share research findings and experience from an integrated organic program (IOP) project that has been addressing the use of grafting for organic systems. *How:* To register visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/353882137. Space is limited If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html