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Mark Shepard Event here in Waterloo Ontario!!

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..and I am sooo excited!  For those of you who don't know Mark Shepard. He is "redeisgning agriculture in nature's image". He has a 110 acre forest farm in SW Wisconsin where he has been using his forest agriculture successfully for 18 years. I particularly like Mark Shepard as an exa...

03.07.14 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
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VELD's Vrijdag Verses - 6

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"The technological development, especially in agriculture, as well as increased contact with industrial cities, movement of people from rural communities to urban centers, and spread of urban beliefs and values due to the improved means of transportation and communication have radically tr...
27.06.14 02:45 PM - Comment(s)
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VELD's Vrijdag Verses - 5

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"we accept these new farm buildings as we must accept the inevitable, but we look forward to their evolution in matters of design and material to the point where a comparison may be made with the barns of an earlier era in which beauty and surprising degree of efficiency emerged as a solution t...
20.06.14 02:45 PM - Comment(s)
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VELD's Vrijdag Verses - 4

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bank barn"it is possible that millions now living in North America have never seen a barn, let alone been in one. In the foreseeable future there is more than a possibility that for many, the kind of barn illustrated in these pages will not be there to see." - Eric Ross Arthur & Dudley Whit...
13.06.14 02:45 PM - Comment(s)
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VELD's Vrijdag Verses - 3

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"the science of agriculture, which is the only profession in the world which encompass all sciences and all the laws of the universe, but the realm of human philosophy as well"  - Louis Bromfield, Author. From My Experiences: the Pleasures and Miseries of Life on a Farm.
06.06.14 02:45 PM - Comment(s)
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