Where: Indianapolis Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana

New for 2010:

• Three concurrent track
• Big Wind–Supply Chain–Community/Smaller Wind
• Topic-specific round table discussions
• Expanded exhibition area
• Multiple tour options, including Horizon Energy’s Meadow Lake 1

(Space on the Horizon tour will be very limited)
Attendance and sponsorship/exhibition space will be capped this year, so sign up early!

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Where: Red Bridge Park, Cicero, Indiana
Website or Map: http://www.ciceroin.org
Organized By: Town of Cicero Indiana

Do you have a desire to protect our water quality. Then start in your own backyard with a Rain Garden. Rain Gardens are shallow depressions which intercept stormwater that would otherwise run untreated into our storm sewers, then into our streams and lakes. Consider attending this Rain Garden Workshop.

See: Town of Cicero Indiana on fb for more information and to RSVP

More information http://www.agreenerindiana.com/xn/detail/1995154:Event:38002

Where: The Troyer Group, Street: 550 Union St, City/Town: Mishawaka
Organized By: Michael Reese

Monthly program for the North Central Branch of Indiana USGBC. There will be a presentation about the Unity Gardens movement in the South Bend area, followed by the monthly branch meeting with committee updates, etc.

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Where: Indianapolis City Market, 222 E. Market St, Indianapolis, Indiana
Free admission, but registration is required.

10:30 - 11 a.m. Vegetable Gardening 101, Getting Started, Location, soil, water, testing, raised beds.
11:15 - 11:45 a.m., Vegetable Gardening 102, Top 10 easiest veggies to grow and how to grow them.

The program also features Jill Ditmire from Mass Ave Wine Shoppe, Meredith Easley of Easley Winery, and Sarah Smith from Mallow Run Winery, as panelists to talk about local wines and food pairings and the wine trail.
ILG publisher Lynn Jenkins will talk about food labeling and what consumers should look for when buying food at farmers markets, community supported agriculture subscriptions and other local sources. Chef Wendell Fowler will do a cooking demonstration.

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Where: Batesville Middle School, 210 N. Mulberry Street, Batesville, IN
Cost: $15 per person, $10/ea. additional family member

This seminar is for food growers & producers, hobby farmers, home gardeners, farmers’ market vendors and those interested in a safe, local food supply. The richness, variety and flavor of our communities, food systems, and diets are in jeopardy.  Factory farms, agribusiness control of the food system, and mega-supermarkets have brought us low prices and convenience but have taken away many other essential aspects of our “food lives”, such as a personal relationship with food and with the people who produce it.  They have also diminished our understanding of the basic nature of food and farming.  More and more people are realizing this and are actively working to turn the tide and to preserve a food industry based on family-owned, small-scale businesses.  Local farmers and small entrepreneurs are our best guarantee agains a world of Styrofoam-like, long-shelf-life tomatoes and diets dictated from the corporate boardrooms.

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