Heart of Ohio Chapter

2010 kickoff meeting

Mon. January 18, 7:30 p.m.

at the

Hartford Library Association

11 South Park Street, Croton, OH

Elections, program plans and cooperative seed and plant orders are on the agenda. All area OEFFA members and guests welcome!

Bring your complete, subtotaled Fedco seed order and checkbook to go in on a group order for a volume discount of 20% or more.

For more information contact Trish Mumme, interim pres. 740-924-4331 or gardenpatchproduce@earthlink.net.

Library is on the south side of square in Croton, south side of street. Croton is between Johnstown and Centerburg in NW Licking County, on Rt, 314 (Croton Road) running N/S between State Rts. 37 and 3/36. See www.mapquest.com for more.

The Heart of Ohio chapter of OEFFA will meet the first Wednesday of Dec. at 7:30 PM in the Sigma Chi building on the Denison campus. This month’s meeting will be the election of officers for 2010. Please join us and bring your favorite X-mas cookies to share! A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

The Heart of Ohio chapter of OEFFA meets the first Wednesday of the month, at 7:30 PM in the Sigma Chi building on the Denison campus. Our current project is assisting the Granville Chamber of Commerce with the special pre-Thanksgiving Granville Farmers Market scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

Thinking of raising livestock for the first time? The Heart of Ohio Chapter is hosting a panel discussion on Getting Started with Livestock on Wednesday, June 3, 7:30 p.m. at the Sigma Chi House on the campus of Denison University in Granville. Expert farmers who raise grass-fed beef, dairy goats, sheep, chickens, and bison will tell their stories, show slides, and give advice to the beginning livestock farmer.

Refreshments and a question and answer period will follow the presentation. The public is cordially invited for this educational discussion. A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

NOTE: There will be a summer break for the months of July and August.  Join us when we meet again in September.

OEFFA’s Heart of Ohio chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at Denison University’s Sigma Chi House in Granville. A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

OEFFA’s Heart of Ohio chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2009 at Denison University’s Sigma Chi House in Granville. A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

OEFFA’s Heart of Ohio chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 4 2009 at Denison University’s Sigma Chi House in Granville. A PDF of the campus map is available as a download. This month we welcome Forrest Shirkey of OSU-Newark as guest to discuss local food systems suited to small farmers. For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Janell Baran.

On January 21, 2009, nominations for 2009 Heart of Ohio Chapter offices were taken and the following slate of officers was submitted and unanimously approved.

• President: Janell Baran
• Secretary: Trish Mumme
• OEFFA Board Rep: Joan Richmond

OEFFA’s Heart of Ohio chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at Kenyon’s Brown Family Environmental Center. All Heart of Ohio members are strongly encouraged to be at this meeting to set the tone and direction of the group for the year. We need you!

• Election of 2009 officers
• Programming planning ? What do we want to do this year?
• Fedco Seed Orders (if possible, bring your completed order sheets and checkbook to the meeting. Beth Elder is compiling the order)
• Other group orders (seed potatoes, nursery trees, other seed companies, etc. )
• Thanksgiving Box 2009 preplanning

PLEASE COME! Bring your ideas! For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Joan Richmond.

OEFFA’s Heart of Ohio chapter will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 PM on Thursday, December 11 at Kenyon’s Brown Family Environmental Center. A debriefing of the Thanksgiving Box project, a report from the Nov. OEFFA membership meeting, and chapter elections are on the agenda.For additional information about the chapter, contact Chapter President Joan Richmond.