{"id":4172,"date":"2013-02-25T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T20:02:22","slug":"canadian-organic-growers-eco-farm-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/canadian-organic-growers-eco-farm-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cog.ca\/ottawa\/eco-farm-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013 <\/a>this past Saturday February 23rd, 2013 in Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p>The theme was Water Management and we were treated to a keynote talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadians.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians)<\/a>.  She is a great speaker and the talk was also excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the seminars we participated in were:<\/p>\n<p>From Brown Water to Blue Water \u2013 natural systems to recycle farm effluents<br \/>\nChris Kinsley &#038; Anna Crolla, Alfred Campus, U of Guelph<\/p>\n<p>Controlling Weeds in Organic Cropping Systems<br \/>\nRoger Rivest, Keystone Grains<\/p>\n<p>Water Management in the Home and Market Garden<br \/>\nEdythe Falconer, Master Gardene<\/p>\n<p>Pushing the Envelope with Cover Crops<br \/>\nAnne Verhallen, OMAFRA<\/p>\n<p>Building a Home for a Zero Carbon Lifestyle<br \/>\nChris Weissflog, EcoGen Energy Inc<\/p>\n<p>If you dig around their website, you may find the presentations from past years as well.<br \/>\nThey are buried pretty well however&#8230; if I can find them again I will try to post direct links.<br \/>\nahh.. here we go:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cog.ca\/ottawa\/eco-farm-day\/eco-farm-day-2012-presentations\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cog.ca\/ottawa\/eco-farm-day\/eco-farm-day-2012-presentations\/<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at the Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013 this past Saturday February 23rd, 2013 in Cornwall. The theme was Water Management and we were treated to a keynote talk from Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians). She is a great speaker and the talk was also excellent. Some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}