<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><img src="cid:D5E80F36-E1A8-4FFB-AF29-B04508D5A4F8@local"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">Come to S<a href="http://www.ecoffshoots.org/news-events/sowingseedshereandnow.com"><font color="#000000" style="color: #000000">owing Seeds Here and Now! A Chesapeake Urban Farming Summit</font></a> to proliferate urban farming in our region.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">Our Keynote, </font><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#1c1c1c" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #1c1c1c"><b>Will Allen</b></font><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979"> was selected as 2010 TIME 100 “World’s Most Influential People”! Allen is the founder and CEO of Growing Power, a network of urban farms in Milwaukee and Chicago. He is the recent recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, honoring him for his past and future innovations in urban farming and food justice.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0022e2" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0022e2"><a href="http://www.ecoffshoots.org/news-events/sowingseedshereandnow.com"><u>Tickets on sale now!</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#1c1c1c" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #1c1c1c"><b>The Summit</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">The Sowing Seeds Here Now and Now! Summit promotes community based urban farming because it:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">* increases food security and the availability of healthy food,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">* decreases unemployment by supplying meaningful green jobs,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">* anchors vital resources and wealth in local communities, and</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">* is a key component in promoting public health and creating a sustainable, just, local food system.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">The summit gathers innovative practitioners, farmers, scholars, for-profit and not-for-profit leaders, policy makers and agency directors to discuss specific strategies to help move the urban agriculture movement forward throughout the Chesapeake area.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Georgia" size="6" color="#0022e2" style="font: 24.0px Georgia; color: #0022e2"><a href="http://www.sowingseedshereandnow.com/"><u>Click here for more information on the Summit</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">Sowing Seeds Here and Now!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">June 18, 2010</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">8:00am-5:30pm</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0022e2" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #0022e2"><a href="http://www.sowingseedshereandnow.com/"><u>http://www.sowingseedshereandnow.com</u></a></font><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#797979" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #797979">/</font></div>
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