Please add a discussion of the Northern New England Beginning Farmers
Conference to the agenda

At 10:18 AM 4/20/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Please note the time: 11:30 - 1:30, with lunch provided.
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>Mark Your Calendars:
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>The 2005 Spring 2005 New Farmer Network Meeting will be on Wednesday May
>18, 2005, 11:30-1:30
>
>Because the majority of people who can attend are coming from the
>Burlington area, it will be at the Burlington Extension office. There is
>ample parking there. I've included directions to the Extension office at
>the bottom of this message. The Center for Sustainable Agriculture will
>provide lunch for all who attend.
>
>The draft agenda includes:
>-- Updates:
>         What has been happening with beginning farmer activities over the
> last few months and what's upcoming with each organization;
>-- Planning for an annual update to our resource guide (web and print);
>-- a proposal to include professional development in future meetings;
>-- expanding our membership -- are there organizations who should be
>included? How do we determine that?
>-- list serv/electronic mailing list for farmers?
>-- new initiatives?
>-- any other items VT NFN members would like to discuss.
>
>Please send me any other agenda items you would like to include by end of
>the day on May 10.
>
>See you soon.
>
>Beth
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>Directions to the Burlington Extension Office:
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> From Interstate 89 North or South: Take I-89 to Exit 14W. This brings you
> onto Route 2 West (Williston Road). Take a right at the first light past
> the Sheraton Conference Center. Take an immediate left (around the
> U-turn) to a set of lights. Go straight through the lights. This brings
> you onto Spear Street. Go approximately 1 mile. You will see the UVM Farm
> on the left; turn right at the UVM Bioresearch Facility sign. The
> Extension office is in the first building on the left.
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> From Route 7 (Shelburne Road) North: Turn right onto Swift Street (just
> before Denny's Restaurant and Interstate 189). At the second traffic
> light, turn left onto Spear Street. Travel about 1 mile and turn left at
> the UVM Bioresearch Facility sign. The Extension office is in the first
> building on the left.
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>Beth Holtzman
>Women's Agricultural Network
>
>617 Comstock Rd.
>Berlin, VT 05602
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Allen Matthews
http://www.sare.org/publications/naf/matthews.htm
Center for Sustainable Agriculture at UVM
http://www.vermontagriculture.com/newfarm.htm
63 Carrigan Drive - Ag. Eng. Bldg. Room 107
Burlington, Vt. 05405
phone: 802+656-0037
www.uvm.edu/sustainableagriculture