Community Farms Roundtable

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Friday, February 21st, 2014
Feb. 19 at 5 pm - Feb. 21 at 2 pm

The purpose of the ongoing Community Farms Roundtable meetings is to bring farmers and community farm supporters together to explore common ground and mutual challenges and to talk about what community farms need to be successful. Community farms is a broad term inclusive of a wide diversity of farming models that include shared farming and/or shared land.

The 2014 Roundtable will have a focus on the potential for establishing a new farmland trust to facilitate community driven protection and management of actively farmed agricultural land. There will be sessions devoted to discussing the potential role of a new provincial farmland trust, the most suitable model for the trust, and how to move forward with the development of a provincial farmland trust in BC.

Program Preview (final program details coming soon):

- Farmland Trust Visioning Sessions:Presentation on the state and potential of Farmland Trusts in BC and a facilitated visioning session
- Open Space Sessions - Topics of discussion to be determined by participants
- Explore O.U.R. Ecovillage�s community farming and living through a guided tour
- Expanding Community Farming Models: What's happening on the ground
- Share in a Zero Mile Feast by O.U.R Ecovillage for Thursday dinner
- Key Note Address on Thursday evening (to be confirmed)
- Future Directions - Setting new goals and action items for the Community Farms Program

The 2014 Roundtable will also include open space workshop sessions in which topics of discussion will be chosen and facilitated by the participants. If there are particular topics you would like to see discussed or on which you would like to facilitate a session please email your ideas in advance to [email protected].

The Roundtable is being held at O.U.R Ecovillage and the primary sessions will occur on Thursday, February 20, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm and on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 9am - 2:00pm. Participants are welcome to arrive on Wednesday, February 19 after 5pm or on Thursday morning between 8-9am.

There are different registration options to accommodate people's different availabilities.

1. Full Registration
2. Thursday and Friday Registration
3. Thursday Only Registration

Event Details and Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/community-farms-roundtable-2014-registration-9901489622

Inquiries can be directed to [email protected]