2008 Conference Success!
It's official - the 8th organic conference and trade show was a huge success!
From March 6-8, 2008, over 350 people came to the Memramcook Resort to see the trade show and dozens of workshops on organic horticulture, seeds, livestock, grains, food miles and more.
Speakers and participants came from across Canada and the Northeast, and left raving about the great learning and networking they experienced.
The sold out trade show took place in a spacious old chapel and exhibitors reported they left with pages of new contacts and customers.
Thursday's conference kick-off, featuring Dag Falck, from Nature's Path, and Pat Mooney, ETC Group, spoke to a standing room only crowd. Offering unique perspectives, Falck and Mooney raised significant awareness on the new threat of nano-technology. With many people expressing alarm, both speakers assured the room that the answer was "exactly what you are already doing–growing and supporting organic".
On Friday night at the sold out banquet, Karen Davidge (Good Spring Farm, NB) was presented with the Gerrit Loo Organic Achievement Award. The keynote address by Marc Schurman (Spring Valley Farm, PEI) provided a fresh and very honest perspective of a conventional farmer bring organic into his operations. The food was abundant and excellent, and the evening concluded with a celtic jam.
This great event would not have been possible without the dozens of volunteers and the generous support by:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada & NBAC
Carrot Cache Foundation
Speerville Flour Mill
EcoCert Canada
AgraPoint
Centre for Systems Integration
Crofter’s Organic
Envirem Technologies
Farmer John Herbs
Fromagerie L’ancetre
Foxmill Ltd.
ETC Group
Java Moose Coffee Roasters
Just Us! Coffee Roasters
Les Fromagiers de la Table Ronde
Lundberg Family Farms
Maritime Certified Organic Growers
Nature’s Path Foods
New Brunswick Department of Agriculture and Aquaculture
Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture
PEI Department of Agriculture
Planet Organic
Pro Organics
OCIA
Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada
Organic Meadow
Organic Products Lanka Inc. - Nature's Cup
Organic Trade Association
Selwood Green
Speerville Flour Mill
Treehugger Organics
Yu – Soya World
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