Friday, December 7, 2007

Aloha from the first day here at ACRES USA conference. It was a full one. There was a film on Polyface farm of Joel Salatin along with the major line up of eco agriculture books with the trade show made up of 100 plus vendors. Then there was the
presentations seven scheduled in three hours. Choosing between Neal Kinsey and Gary Zimmer who were speaking at the same time was difficult yet I'll just buy the mp3 files of the conference to hear all of the presentations.



In the trade show a farm from Lancaster Pa. Millers farm traveled 10 hours to sell their farm fresh raw products. Great to have nutrient denser food fresh from the farm to offset the effects of being indoors in a heated environment.



Fletcher Sims who just turned 90 years young who is the "Dean of Compost" is here an old timer of ACRES,along with his wife and in this picture Anne Walters the matriarch of this long time event now taken over and run by her son Fred. Anne and her husband Chuck the founder of ACRES are going to be coming out to Hawaii in February. I've spoken to them and will put something together when I get back to honor their coming. Its great to experience all this history.


Just watched the movie "King Corn" I highly recommend anyone even young students interested in knowing about agriculture and the food they are eating to see this film. It was made by a couple of students from Boston who found out after traveling to a small town in Iowa called Greene that their great grandfathers were both from that town and were farmers.









Dr. Richard Olree who co-wrote the book with Chuck Walters
"Mineral of the genetic Code" has agreed to speak at our
conference next October, I'am very excited to have him on
board he is quite the presenter who is intelligent and engaging
in his delivery. He also is quite the chiropractor.





Thats it for now I will check back in tomorrow which is the last full day of conference. Aloha Vincent









Chuck Walters the founder of ACRES USA and I

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