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Come & Enjoy Our 13th Annual Festival, May 5-6, 2013
Sunday and Monday, 10 am to 7 pm both days
Celebrate spring with 150 vendors, 75 old time
musicians, and more than 40 craftsmen. Browse
through thousands of varieties of plants and learn how
to grow them with our acclaimed guest speakers.
Come and join us and more than 7000 gardeners at
America’s premier event of seeds, plants, music, culture
and the celebration of historic foods. Join gardeners
from 30-40 states. Bring the kids, who will be admitted
free, for a full day of children’s fun and educational
activities. Area schools are invited to bring their classes.
Enjoy a sense of community with fascinating seed collectors,
renowned musicians, national speakers, historic demonstrators,
food activists, home schoolers, western re-enactors, organic growers,
gourmet chefs, free thinkers, Ozarkian crafters, trendy vendors and
herbal hippies!
read more at www.rareseeds.com
Paul Wallace of the Petaluma Seed Bank
and Dr. William Woys Weaver
Guest Speakers
Dr. William Woys Weaver, internationally-known food historian
and author of 16 books.
Dr. Jeffrey Nekola, a Research Associate in the Biology Division
of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, an Adjunct Associate Professor for the University of New Mexico,
and Research Associate in the Section of Mollusks at the Carnegie Museum of
Natural History.
roNNie CummiNs, founder and director of the Organic Consumers
Association.
Jim loNg, herb gardener and prolific writer who travels the world looking
for interesting new herbs and vegetables.
ira WallaCe, a Central Virginia Master Gardener who serves on the
board of Organic Seed Alliance and who is a worker/owner of the cooperatively
managed Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
osCar “HaNk” Will iii, the great-grandson of the founder of the
notable Oscar H. Will Co. seed and nursery business. As Editor in Chief of
grit magazine, he also farms with his wife, Karen, on their Kansas acreage.
kareN keb Will, a freelance writer and editor who started her own
home-based baking business. Her new book about starting a home-based business
will be out this spring.
JoHN brazaitis, a life-long organic beekeeper and local honey producer.
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