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Schedule for 2011
Join us for a four-part series - over the phone,
from the convenience of your home.
For farmers and consumers at all levels of
cow/goat share experience who want to learn more
2011 TELESEMINAR SCHEDULE:
Special Session - Open Forum, June 16
Month |
Time |
101 |
102 |
103 |
104 |
April |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST |
7 |
14 |
21 |
28 |
June |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
16 |
August |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST |
4 |
11 |
18 |
25 |
PRICE: Each teleseminar is $35.
DISCOUNT: Buy three for $95 or all four for $125
AUDIENCE: For farmers and consumers at all levels of cow/goat-share experience who want to learn more about the topic.
METHOD: When it’s time for the teleseminar, just pick up the phone and dial the long distance number and password you’ll get after you register. You’ll need long distance access and a touch tone phone to participate. During lectures, all callers will be placed on mute, to decrease background noise distractions. Participant interaction is encouraged during the Question & Answer sessions and the entire 104 session, which is totally devoted to interactive activity.
LONG DISTANCE CHARGES: Tuition does not include any applicable charges for your long distance call. Many of our participants use cell phones with free long distance. Another alternative is using a discount long distance service from a discounter like OneSuite.
CLASS SIZE: Teleseminars will have a minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 participants.
CURRICULUM: SPECIAL OPEN FORUM JUNE 16!
101 - Legal Basis for Share Operations - Pete Kennedy, Esq.
102 - ADDED IN 2010! Goat-Share Operations - Sharon Wilson
103 - Cow-Share Operations - Tim Wightman
104 - Legal & Operations Forum - Pete Kennedy, Esq, Sharon Wilson and Tim Wightman
FORMAT: 90-minute sessions include one hour lecture and 30 minutes for questions and answers; the open forum may begin with a brief introduction and then the remainder is for questions, answers and comments.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
101 – LEGAL BASIS FOR SHARE OPERATIONS (Cow & Goat-Shares)
Pete Kennedy, Esq. presents a legal overview of share operations and a discussion of the differences between the various types (cow/goat, herd or farm-shares).
102 – OPERATIONS (Goat-Shares)
Past attendees with goat-shares asked for their own class focusing on goats. Beginners and experienced goat-share operators will benefit from Sharon Wilson’s advice, including important aspects to consider before starting, solutions to common problems and sure-fire ways to improve both quality and profitability.
103 – OPERATIONS (Cow-Shares)
Tim Wightman offers advice, including important aspects to consider before starting a cow-share, solutions to common problems and sure-fire ways to improve both quality and profitability.
104 – LEGAL & OPERATIONS FORUM (Cow & Goat-Shares)
A favorite of past attendees - A lively forum hosted by Tim Wightman, Sharon Wilson and Pete Kennedy, Esq. for getting your most important legal and operations questions answered.
INSTRUCTORS:
Pete Kennedy, Esq. is an attorney and serves as President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and Vice President, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation. He works on dairy issues, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. Each week, he helps farmer members of the Fund with cow or goat-share operation start-ups. He compiled the state raw milk laws and state raw milk summaries posted a RealMilk.com. He is currently working with others to challenge the federal ban on the interstate shipment of raw milk for human consumption.
Tim Wightman serves as President, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation and is a founding board member for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. He has pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers’ markets, the cow-share program and the farm-share program while living in Northern Wisconsin. Tim consults worldwide with dairy farmers on cowshares, raw milk safety and direct marketing and is the author of the “Raw Milk Production Handbook”, and the instructor in "From Grass to the Glass - Chore Time" DVD now available online for FREE at the Foundation website.
Sharon Wilson is a charter member and currently serves as Treasurer, Raw Milk Association of Colorado (RMAC). She owns and operates Natural Choice Dairy, LLC a goat herd-share in Colorado. As a Board member of RMAC, she has been helping to create test standards for goats along with product standards and recommended process standards. Sharon has been consulting with potential goat-share operations in and out of state for the more than five years.
Through the generosity of our donors, the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation offers limited financial aid to farmers and consumer groups who engage in and/or support sustainable agricultural practices and have demonstrable financial need as a result of government harassment. This includes qualifying recipients who have been unfairly harmed by government action such as unjustified raids and /or product seizures. To request financial aid, please send us an email.
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For farmers and consumers at all levels of cow/goat share experience
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