Sustainable Farm Business

GROWING YOUR SUSTAINABLE FARM BUSINESS: A PRODUCERS PERSECTIVE

Once the romantic ideas about small scale sustainable farming wear off, there is a dollars and cents reality to making your farm a success. Spence Farm Foundation welcomes you to join us for the field day “Growing Your Sustainable Farm Business: A Producers Perspective”. We will begin our afternoon at Living Waters Farm in Strawn, IL where we will see a variety of vegetable farming methods and then move on to South Pork Ranch in Chatsworth, IL to see animal production. These small farms have thrived by working together with other local producers and then branching out to become independent, successful businesses. The history of each farm, tour of the facility, what works/what doesn’t and how they analyze success both as a family and as a business, financially, will be discussed. A packet of resources and ideas will be available as handouts.

For registration, visit the Central Illinois Sustainable Farming Network website.

Date: Saturday July 13th, 2013*
Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Living Waters Farm
29695 E. 100 North Road
Strawn, IL 61775
South Pork Ranch
32796 E. 750 North Road
Chatsworth, IL 60921
Cost: $5/participant (free for CISFN members)
Size Limit: 40 participants
Ages: 10 years and older
Bring: Sack lunch and folding chair

* Preregistration required by July 10th, 2013