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42nd Annual Acres Conference & Trade Show | 2017 Eco-Ag | Columbus, Ohio

Come explore new on-farm strategies and tools while engaging with the leading minds in modern eco-agriculture. This year's event will feature all-day advanced learning workshops, a trade show full of innovative ideas and products you can apply to your operation, diverse expert sessions, consultant hours, book signings, film screenings, and much more. Don't miss this valuable opportunity to expand your eco-agriculture world!

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Harlem Grown’s Tony Hillery: “Education Is The Way Out"

Hillery founded Harlem Grown to address the health and academic challenges facing public elementary school students in Harlem. In 2011, he began volunteering at a local elementary school and witnessed first-hand the lack of resources allocated to the schools and the poor nutrition of students. He transformed an abandoned garden, essentially a junkyard, into a thriving community garden.

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Mobile Greenhouse Showcases Ontario's Indoor Crops

The one-of-a-kind roaming Greenhouse Education Centre is an initiative of NatureFresh, a Leamington, Ont., produce company that started in the greenhouse growing business in 1999.  Travelling from April to September, the educational unit – a 38-ft. trailer towed by a truck – is essentially a miniature version of a regular greenhouse.

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The Trump Administration’s False Promise to Rural America

The Administration claims that GMOs should be accepted on scientific grounds. And it says that its motivation for this policy is to provide large benefits to rural economies that grow these crops, and sustainability. This is undoubtedly aimed at currying favor with an important Trump constituency. But on balance, science does not support the value of GMOs for rural society or sustainability in the U.S.—just the opposite. Several recent research studies have added to the mounting record of GMOs contributing to harmful industrial agriculture in the U.S.

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Atop a Parking Garage in a Staten Island Residential Development, an Urban Farm Builds Community and Thrives

Empress Green Inc. is an urban farming business specializing in organic food production, education, and consulting. Bates and her husband, Asher Landes, started the company in 2016, shortly after moving into the residential development Urby, a 500+ apartment complex that sits on the north shore of Staten Island, New York.

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USDA and SCORE Launch Innovative Mentorship Effort to Support New Farmers and Ranchers

“Shepherding one generation to the next is our responsibility. We want to help new farmers, veterans, and people transitioning from other industries to agriculture,” said Secretary Perdue. “They need land, equipment, and access to capital, but they also need advice and guidance. That’s what SCORE is all about.”

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Brian Wansink: “It Is Easier To Change Your Environment Than It Is To Change Your Mind”

Wansink is the John Dyson Professor of Marketing, the Director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, and Co-Director of the Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs. He is also co-founder of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement at the Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management at Cornell.

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