Oklahoma and Arkansas Horticulture Industries Show—January 4 & 5, 2008 |
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"Four Seasons of Success"
PROGRAM GENERAL INFORMATION"Celebrating Horticulture, Four Seasons of Success” is the theme for the 27th Oklahoma and Arkansas Horticulture Industries Show. This two-day grower meeting and trade show is sponsored by the University of Arkansas, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Community College, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture. It has consistently provided growers the latest information on vegetables, fruit, herbs, Christmas trees, farmers market crops and public gardening issues. Growers from Oklahoma, Arkansas and surrounding states are welcome to attend. On Friday and Saturday, each day will feature Eliot Coleman following with six different grower organizations of H.I.S. providing concurrent educational programming on the following topic areas: Christmas Trees, Vegetables, Fruit, Herbs, Farmers’ Market Growing/Sustainable Agriculture, and Public Gardens/Master Gardeners. Attendees to the two-day event will receive a CD-Rom containing all programs presented during the event. |
2008 Program & Registration Form 2008 Exhibitor Registration Form For more information contact Horticulture Industries Show |
Eliot Coleman, Keynote Speaker
Eliot has nearly 40 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field and greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest, and the Winter Harvest Manual.
During his careers as a commercial market gardener, the director of agricultural research projects, and as a teacher and lecturer on organic gardening he has studied, practiced and perfected his craft. He served for two years as the Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements and was an advisor to the US Department of Agriculture during their landmark 1979-80 study, Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming.
He has conducted study tours of organic farms, market gardens, orchards, and vineyards in Europe and has successfully combined European ideas with his own to develop and popularize a complete system of tools and equipment for organic vegetable growers. He presently consults and designs tools for Johnny's Selected Seeds.
With Barbara Damrosch, he was the host of the TV series, Gardening Naturally, on The Learning Channel. He currently operates a commercial year-round market garden, in addition to horticultural research projects, at Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine.