Agriculture/Organics; Cooking Demonstrations/Challenges

PURPOSE:

 Discover:

• how we can reduce pesticide usage;
• what’s available locally (includes cooking demonstrations and a mock Farmer's Market)
• the many benefits of local foods (economics, transportation/energy costs, etc.)
• how to compost: backyard, city and vermi-composting
• Gardening without chemicals; organics
• organics & health
• how animals are used around the world to help fight hunger & poverty
• solutions to Fire Ant problems
• Cooking Demos
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PARTICIPANTS/EXHIBITORS include:

• Rockefeller Institute Culinary Program, Robert L. Hall, 
• Chef 4 Hire
• Rick deRoque: Meet Rick from the Biggest Loser and learn to cook his (garden) vegetable and chicken chile
• Conserving Arkansas's Agricultural Heritage 
• Faulkner County Cooperative Extension Office
• Conway Farmers Market
• Master Gardners: U of A and Faulkner Co. 
• Plant a Row for the Hungry