Celebrate Agriculture Dinner

Celebrate Agriculture in Monroe County

A Farm to Table Dinner

Rochester, NY – Farms are an essential and diverse part of New York State’s economy, contributing significantly in the billions of dollars each year across the Empire State. With farmland occupying nearly one-quarter of the State’s land area, agriculture also promotes New Yorkers’ quality of life in other ways, including access to locally grown foods, preserving open space, and enhancing communities through farmers’ markets, agritourism and other such activities. Monroe County alone is home to 475 farms and over 98,000 acres of land in farms that produce a diverse variety of fresh, locally sourced food. Please join us in our Farm to Table event to enjoy and celebrate these delicious, local products and meet the farmers that grow them!

The Celebrate Agriculture Dinner is being hosted by Monroe County Farm Bureau in collaboration with Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County. The event helps support the Farm Bureau Scholarship Fund and the promotion and education of agriculture throughout Monroe County.

Please join us on Saturday, August 13, 2016 at the Mayers Lake Ontario Winery & Vineyards in Hilton, NY from 5 pm to 9 pm. The cost to attend is $20 per person; to reserve your seat please call the Farm Bureau Western NY office at 585-343-3489.

Special thanks to our sponsors: The Bruce Porter Agency, Ferraro Insurance Agency, LLC, Lakeland Equipment, Rochester Solar Technologies, Monroe Tractor, Headwater Food Hub, Empire Tractor, JKS Performance Horses, Hopkins Farm, Monroe Community College – Agriculture and Life Sciences Institute, and Howlett Farms.

For more information contact:

Diane Chamberlin

Resource Specialist

NY Farm Bureau, Western NY Office

29 Liberty St., Suite 212

Batavia, NY 14020

585-343-3489

Last updated July 25, 2016