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-For Immediate Release- March 13, 2008
The Penfield Library and Genesee Land Trust To Host Lecture On Organic Farming, Tuesday, April 1st at 7 p.m.
Elizabeth Henderson, an organic farmer for over 25 years, will share her knowledge about this earth friendly way of farming when she lectures at the Penfield Library, (Ruth Braman Room) located at 1985 Baird Road in Penfield, on Tuesday, April 1st at 7 p.m.
Henderson farms at Peacework Organic Farm, in Wayne County, New York, and is an expert at producing organically grown vegetables. She is a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) in Massachusetts, has been on the Board of Directors of NOFA-NY since 1989, and represents NOFA in the national discussions of organic standards. She chairs the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board in Wayne County, and is a member of the steering committee of the Agricultural Justice Project and helped organize the Domestic Fair Trade Association. In 2007, Abundance Co-op honored her with the “Cooperating for Communities” award. Her writings on organic agriculture appear in The Natural Farmer and the NOFA-NY Food, Farms and Folks, and she is one of the authors of The Real Dirt: Farmers Tell about Organic and Low-Input Practices in the Northeast, lead author of Sharing the Harvest: A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture (Chelsea Green, 1999, with a new edition in 2007) and wrote A Manual of Whole Farm Planning (2003) with Karl North. With her former farm partner, she wrote A Food Book for a Sustainable Harvest for the members of the Genesee Valley Organic Community Supported Agriculture Project (GVOCSA). Her farm, Peacework Organic Farm, supplies vegetables to the 300 member GVOCSA, in its twentieth year in 2008. Peacework Farm is located on land protected by Genesee Land Trust which is a local non- profit preserving 3000 acres in the greater Rochester area.
This lecture, which will address the value of organic farming, is free and open to the public but requires registration. Please go to www.penfieldlibrary.org to register (beginning March 18th) or call the Penfield Library at 340-8720; 340 8747 for hearing impaired. For more information about this event and Genesee Land Trust, call 256-2130.
### Contact: Margaret Potter Assistant Director Genesee Land Trust 500 East Avenue Rochester NY 14607 (585) 256-2130
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