THESE ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE PLACERGROWN EMAIL NEWS RELEASE ON THE CONFERENCE:
2012 PlacerGROWN Food & Farm Conference
Saturday, February 4, 8:30am-3:30pm
Lincoln High School
790 J Street
Lincoln, CA
JOIN PlacerGROWN AND THE UC Davis Extension FOR AN EXCITING DAY OF FOOD, FUN AND WORKSHOPS ON FARMING, AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND THEME: I LOVE FARMERS, THEY FEED MY SOUL teaching the NEXT GENERATION OF FARMERS.
They may be young, but they are not stupid.
"I Love Farmers," as it is affectionately known, is a national agricultural advocacy group of young people with headquarters in San Luis Obispo. J. Scott Vernon, an agricultural communications professor at the Cal Poly State University, help found the group. Together, they have launched an ambitious campaign to inform the young people, primarily in urban areas, about agricultural issues, and family farming in particular....
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