Live, Use, Buy LOCAL Resource Fair
March 14th, 2009

Let's Grow our local Eco-Economic Resources:
Our Local Forests, Food, Energy, People...

Sponsored by the Green Squared Building Association

Morning Field Tour - River Valley School Forest

8:30am to 10:45am

Coon Rock Road and Hwy 14 between Spring Green and Arena

Arthroscopic timber harvesting with small equipment

Sawmilling logs into lumber

Building a Solar Powered Lumber Dry Kiln

10:00am  Press conference - Wisconsin's new Local Use Dimension Lumber Grading Law
(if the weather is bad, this will be held at the Community Church)

Spring Green Community Church

151 E Bossard St.  (off of North Albany St)

9:30am  Coffee and Exhibits Open all Day

9:40am  Shuttle leaves for the School Forest Press Conference

9:45am  -  Roger Reynolds - Lasagna Gardening

Featured Speaker:

11:00am - Andrew Kerr - The Politics and Economics of Buying Local

Log Cabin Project - RVHS Tech Ed Class

Noon - Bring your own lunch or visit a local restaurant.

12:00pm   Linda Donnelly - Energy Independant Community Program

Constructing the World's Most Efficient Solar Heated Lumber Dry Kiln

  Log cabin tours

1:00pm  Vicky Terpstra - Energy Conservation, Efficiency, and Renewable Technology

1:00pm  Bids for log cabin will be due

The log cabin will be sold by sealed bid - Bid Opening at 1:30pm

Special Guest Speaker:

2:00pm Ruth McWilliams - Making Wood Products from your own forest.
Ruth recently retired as the National Coordinator for Sustainable Development
U.S. Forest Service - Washington DC
Ruth is a forest owner with timber in the Adirondacks of New York

2:00pm  Alex Greene and Bryan Butteris - Using local wood in construction

3:00pm  Jim Abner - Living Simply/Practicing Conservation

3:00pm Mark Olson - Buy Local Foods

4:00pm  Panel Discussion on Sustainable Living in our community