2010 Sustainable Agriculture Tours Scheduled
For the eighth consecutive year, University of Illinois Extension is offering tours
that highlight sustainable agriculture operations around the state of Illinois.
“This year’s tours truly represent the vast diversity in Illinois’s small farms," said Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, Small Farm and Sustainable Agriculture Extension Specialist who is coordinating the tours. “The tours allow visitors to meet these extraordinarily, creative farmers and producers and find out how they solve their unique problems every day.”
The schedule for the 2010 sustainable agriculture tours is as follows:
May 27, The Business of Vermiculture
Wilken Farms
Iroquois County
June 18, Feeding Universities Sustainably
Farmer Brown’s Production Company and Mulberry Hill Farm
Jackson County
http://farmerbrownsproductioncompany.com
July 26, Illinois Berries
J & J Berry Farm
Jersey County
August 13, Romance Tour – Flowers and Wine
Bright Flower Nursery and Famous Fossil Vineyard & Winery
Jo Daviess County and Stephenson County
http://www.brightflowernursery.com
www.famousfossilwinery.com
September 15, Agritourism – Farm Fresh Fun
Country Corner
Henry County
http://www.country-corner.com
A fee of $20 per person will be charged for each tour, which includes lunch. This year two adults pay $30 when registered together and children under the age of 10 attend free.
Visit http://web.extension.illinois.edu/smallfarm/ag_tours.cfm to register and for more details about each of the tours including a map and agenda. To register by phone, contact Donna Cray at 217-241-4644. For more information, contact
Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant (217-968-5512; cvnghgrn@illinois.edu).