Farming on the Edge: Livable cities, profitable farms

September 13, 11:45 to 1:15

See Bennett Hall's story in the Sept. 14 Corvallis Gazette Times

NOTE THE NEW LOCATION

Banquet Room, Renaissance Building, 136 SW Washington St., Corvallis

The Willamette Valley anchors Oregon’s agricultural economy. A patchwork of fruit, nut, grain, vegetable, dairy, livestock and grass seed farms supplies growing communities in Oregon and across the world. Locally, future population growth will increase competition and conflict over land use. How can commercial farms and growing urban communities co-exist? What is the social contract between them? Do we need new land use rules to define the urban/rural transition?

Speakers: Dan McGrath, staff chair, Linn County Extension

Andrew Martin, Bald Hill Farm, Inc., Corvallis

Peter Kenagy (invited), Kenagy Family Farms Inc., Albany

LUNCH MENU FROM VALLEY CATERING

Salad Buffet including a cobb salad, Asian chicken salad and a waldorf salad,

a bread basket, cookies, tea, coffee and sodas

PRE-REGISTER ONLINE HERE BY SEPT. 9 OR PAY AT THE DOOR.