Speaker Program - 8 Tracts covering 6 different topics

(&&&& Hotel - Downtown Toronto opposite Toronto City Hall - Heated pool, saunas & whirpool)

Hotel Reservations:

Dates:

On-Farm Functions

Entertainment

Specialties

Innovative Blueprints

Ornamental Enhancements

Advanced Markets

Rural Tourism

Farmers' Markets

Corporate and Children's Parties, Weddings, Retreats, Food Service and

Edutainment.

School Tours, Building a Performance, Charging Admission, Seasonal

Event Marketing, Fall Entertainment, Festivals.

Extending Into Christmas, Weird & Wonderful Ideas, Ice Cream, Fruit

 Wineries, Mkting Livestock.

How to Build: (1) Goat Walk, (2) Haunted House (3) Haunted Hayride,

(4) Bakery.

Creating Faces on Trees, Making Preserves Gardening Trends,

Competing with Big Box Stores, Adding Plant Sales, Adding a Garden

Centre, Alternate Uses for Greenhouses.

Delegating, Gifts-the Next Cash Cow, Crisis Management, Marketing Wants

vs. Needs.

Trends, Accommodations Plus, Turning Lemons into Lemonade, What Flew

& What Flopped.

Economic Impact Study of F.M., Friends Groups, Team Building, Signs &

Displays, Ads. & Promotion, Is Your Market Healthy.

June 6 Opening Day - Nathan Phillips Square Farmers’ Market Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall, Toronto (Wednesdays til October 3, 2001)

July 14 - Ohio Short Course - (US floriculture’s premier educational & trade show event) 18 Columbus, Ohio Contact: 614-487-1117,Fax:                          614-487-1216  Web: www.ofa.org

August 1 5th Annual OFFMA Pot Luck Social Ron & Pat Butwick’s, Butwick Orchards, Freelton Contact: Bob or Donna Cobbledick 905-945-9057

Oct 3 - 4 23rd Annual Canadian Greenhouse Conference * New Location for 2001 International Centre - Arrow Hall, 6900 Airport Rd., Mississauga (Toronto) Contact: Bob or Donna Cobbledick 905-945-9057; E-mail: info@CanadianGreenhouseConference.com

Dec 11 - 2001 New England Vegetable & Berry Conference & Trade Show 13 Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge Massachusetts Contact: Dr. Vern Grubinger 802-257-7967 E-M: vernon.grublinger@uvm.edu

Jan 13 - 143rd Ont. Fruit &Veg. Growers Assoc. (OF&VGA) Annual Convention 16 Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton, Contact: Deborah Milito 519-763-6320

Jan 14 - Progress North 2002 - OFFMA/NAFDMA Joint Conference 20 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, ON Contact: OFFMA - Bob Cobbledick 905-945-9057 or NAFDMA - Charlie Touchette 1-888-884-9270

Jan 14 -16: Pre Conference Tour; Jan 17 - Workshops, Exhibitor set-up & Trade Show; Jan 18-19 - Speaker Sessions & Trade Show; Jan 20 - Post Conference Tour

Feb 27 - Ontario Horticultural Crops Conference & Trade Show 28 Hamilton Convention Centre, Hamilton ON Contact: Deborah Milito 519-763-6320 E-M: deborah@ofvga.org