The demand for fresh, local meat products – with no taint of industrial process – is absolutely staggering. To read an article about the Conservancy’s inquiry please click here.

Edited partial transcript from the Northeast Regional Discussion Group on behalf of the Small Farms Conservancy originally published in the Fall 2009 Small Farmer’s Journal and copyrighted thereto.

Held in the Sanborn Mills Ox Barn, Loudon, New Hampshire, end of September 2009.

Charles Capaldi transcriptor

Discussion lead by Larry Brewer, President SFC

LARRY BREWER (Oregon SFC):

We want to talk about education – specifically on-farm education, farmland preservation and conservation – in that order. continue reading…