That's right we are heading to Baltimore and Philadelphia...post ice/snow storm it appears. New Marketing Specialist Danielle Kisamore and I are slated to attend the annual North American Farmer Direct Marketing & Agritourism Association (www.nafdma.com) meeting and tour. We'll spend three days on a mobile classroom (bus) tromping through fields, farms, pastures and farm markets learning about what our neighbors are doing. We are slated for different tours to maximize the ideas and will be presenting them at the 2011 West Virginia Small Farms Conference in Morgantown (February 17-19). We'll return to Baltimore on Monday evening and have three more days of workshops, meetings and all things farm marketing.
In addition to preparing for our presentation, I'm hoping to keep everyone updated through use of this blog. Danielle and I each have cameras and laptop packed and I'm hoping to learn a few things about social media with her. Once we arrive in Baltimore on Friday, we'll try to post our tour visits for the following day. Let us know if you have questions or want us to explore an attraction you are thinking about adding to your operation. You can email me at cmartel@ag.state.wv.us. I've already heard from Katy at Orr's and know what she is interested in....what more would you like to learn in 2011?
