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2005 Workshops: Friday :: Saturday :: Sunday

For the full Registration program from 2005, click here: BIONEERS Program (PDF)

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Bena Burda telling the story of Maggie's Organics on Saturday morning.

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Riley Truog, and his mother Erin, in the Raising Your Wonder Filled Child workshop.

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Carlos Aceves setting up a display highlighting his workshop: Art as an Educational Tool

Local Keynote:

Bena Burda opening 9-10AM

Burda is the founding president of Maggie’s Organics (www.maggiesorganics.com), a 13-year-old ecologically and socially responsible organic clothing business based in Ypsilanti. In 1999 she helped organize and partnered with a Nicaraguan women-owned sewing cooperative, Maquiladora Mujeres, which now employs over 150 people.

Workshop Listings:

10:15-11:45AM

Raising a Wonder-Filled Child
Natural Plant Dye Workshop
Season Extension and Winter Harvesting:
Unheated Greenhouses
Pattern Language for a Conservation Economy
Music Builds Community
Voices of Michigan Farm Women
The History of the Future: Sustainable Economics for BIONEERS
Migrant Issues: Mexico to the Great Lakes
Aligning Businesses and Non-profits

The Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference is co-sponsored by

SEEDS & The Neahtawanta Center