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The 10th annual Extension Small Farms Conference will be held on Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The one-day conference will be held on the Corvallis campus of Oregon State University at the LaSells Stewart Center. The keynote speaker, author Mas Masumoto [Epitaph for a Peach, Four Seasons in Five Senses, and his latest Wisdom of the Last Farmer], will speak on It's About the Flavors of Life: Why We Farmers Work So Hard. Masumoto is a third generation farmer working with his family on their 80-acre organic farm near Fresno, CA. Kurt Schrader, representing Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, is the invited capnote speaker. Find registration materials on-line at: or call the Benton County Extension Office at 541-766-3556. The conference includes 14 concurrent sessions, covering a range of topics of interest to growers who market their production directly to the public, for farmers’ markets managers and board members, and for community food advocates. This event is sponsored by Oregon State University Extension Service; Oregon Department of Human Services WIC Program; Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education; Chambers-Eisgruber Fund.