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Diversified Ag Tour Sign-up

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09/06/2015

(Auburn)-- The 2015 Southeast Nebraska Diversified Ag Tour will be Friday, September 11th. This is the tenth year Nebraska Extension has organized the tour to highlight diversified and sustainable agricultural operations in the area. This year’s tour will include four stops. The first will be Olive Creek Farm near Adams, NE. Olive Creek Farm is a small farm owned and operated by the Charlie and Jill Heng family with a mission to provide clean food at affordable prices. The second will be Prairieland Dairy near Firth, NE. Prairieland Dairy is a family owned dairy that works to be sustainable, open, transparent, and that serves people, cows, and the planet. While at Prairieland Dairy, lunch will be served from Papa D’s Pizzeria. After lunch the tour will stop at Hollister Farms near Princeton, NE. Hollister Farms is a certified All Natural Produce Farm. The Hollisters produce and sell farm fresh eggs, honey, grass-fed lambs and natural soaps and lotions. They have recently started raising swine as well. The final stop of the day will be Sunny Slope Farm near Filley, NE. Sunny Slope Farm has a local CSA farm and also has on-farm sales and at the Beatrice Farmers Market. It is owned and operated by Merlin and Rita Friesen. Besides vegetables, they produce strawberries, honey, free-range eggs, a limited number of broilers and turkeys and grass-fed beef.

The tour will pick up participants in Hickman at 6:45 am in the parking lot north of the Subway, in Auburn at 8:00 am on the north side of the courthouse, and in Tecumseh at 8:30 am on the north side of the courthouse. The cost to attend is $20 per person and includes lunch and transportation. To register contact either the Nemaha County Extension Office (402-274-4755), or Johnson County Extension Office (402-335-3669) by Tuesday, September 8th.

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