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Past Events 2010 ECFWA annual meeting
Register now for the 2010 ECFWA annual meeting and tour planned for Thursday, April 29, 2010, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The theme of this year's event will be "Exploring the Holland Marsh" and it will be held at the Springdale Christian Reformed Chruch in Bradford. To quote directly from the Holland Marsh Gold website (www.hollandmarshgold.com), it is “Canada's very own ‘salad bowl’.” The community of some 125 farms, farmers and farm families - located just 40 kilometres north of Toronto - has for decades been considered a crown jewel of agricultural production. The agenda outline for the day is: 9:30 - 10 a.m. | Registration - catch up over coffee and renew your membership | | 10 - 11:30 a.m. | ECFWA annual business meeting | | 11:30 - 12 noon | "Holland Marsh 101" by Jamie Reaume, executive director of the Holland Marsh Growers' Association (www.hollandmarshgold.com) | | 12 - 1:15 p.m. | Lunch (provided) | 1:15 - 3:30 p.m.
| Tour Carron Farms, hosted by Jason Verkaik, president (carronfarms.ca)
The Verkaik family has been farming in the Holland Marsh since 1934. They grow a wide variety of produce (as can be seen on their website) and have a state-of-the-art onion curing and storing facility, as well as a carrot storing and packaging facility. |
The cost will be free for members and $50 for non-members (which includes a year’s membership in the association). Please pre-register no later than Friday, April 23 by contacting ECFWA Secretary-Treasurer Andrew Campbell at
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or 519-438-5729. Interested in carpooling from Guelph? Visit the Ride Board at www.ecfwa.ca to post a message or see who has room in their car. *Directions to Springdale Christian Reformed Church, located at 1466 5th Sideroad, Bradford: Take Highway 400 north to Toronto to exit 58 (Canal Road) Head west on Canal Road to the 5th Sideroad. The church is on the corner of the 5th Sideroad and Canal Road Carron Farms (site of the afternoon tour) is across the road from the church
Twitter Techniques for Ag Tweeps & Tweets TM ECFWA On-line Webinar Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Have you ever tweeted your tweeps in a twub as part of the Twitterverse? Like it or not, Twitter has become mainstream and boasts the largest percentage growth of any social media tool. If you’re not familiar with micro blogging, aren’t quite sure about @, don’t understand the business value, or haven’t participated in “tweet-ups” or chats such as #AGChat – you’re not alone. As a follow up to the popular new-media session held in February of 2008, the ECFWA will be offering an hour-long on-line Twitter webinar for ECFWA members on February 23, 2010. And the best thing is that if you have a computer, you can take this course – regardless of your location in Ontario, Quebec or the Maritimes and regardless of whether you attended the 2008 session. Michele Payn-Knoper created #AgChat in April of 2009, a weekly streaming conversation that now draws 1,000 to 1,500 international tweets over two hours about the business of raising food, fuel, feed and fibre. In the interest of agriculture advocacy, Michele will share her experience, insight from extensive social media training and what she’s learned first hand in building a network that has garnered a nomination as one of Mashable’s Top 5 Twitter users of the year. The course will help ECFWA members to: * Become familiar with one of the hottest social networking tools * Understand Twitter terminology * Learn how to build your community quickly and effectively * Identify ways to efficiently track anti-agriculture messaging * Break through clutter by finding Twitter management tools to help you When: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Where: Anyone in the Guelph area is invited to participate as a group by meeting in the Syngenta board room, 140 Research Lane in Research Park off of Stone Road in Guelph. However, you can participate from anywhere in the country by registering for the workshop and receiving log-in instructions. You will need speakers for your computer to hear Michele’s presentation. Dial-up internet services, while not ideal for a workshop of this type, should still suffice. There is an easy-to-use Q & A system built into the webinar technology that will allow participants to ask questions of Michele throughout the program. Cost: Free to all ECFWA members (but registration is mandatory to receive log-in instructions); $15 for non-members. Added Dinner Option: A pay your own way dinner and networking opportunity will follow for all attendees at the Guelph location at the Shakespeare Arms Pub on Harvard Road following the workshop. Pre-registration is required by Friday, February 19 to ensure time to provide you with log-in information in advance of the session. Pre-register indicating whether you'll be participating on-line or meeting at the Syngenta office in Guelph and join us for dinner following the webinar by contacting ECFWA secretary-treaurer Andrew Campbell at
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or by calling 519-438-5729, extension 5023. All non-members will be invoiced for their registrations. 
Photo by Jim Romahn 2009 ECFWA Annual Meeting Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10 a.m.to 3:30 p.m.
Rittenhouse Hall, Vineland, Ontario
Speaker highlights: Bill Ingratta, Director, External Relations and Outreach, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre PANEL DISCUSSION – Living within the Greenbelt Bill Hodgson, Mayor of Lincoln Len Troup, Chair of the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers' Marketing Board; tender fruit grower Burkhard Mausberg, President, Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation
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