Raffle - OEFFA Conference

So much of what folks value at OEFFA are the connections made between farmers. This year, we are facilitating those connections between farmers with raffle baskets that offer mentorship opportunities, as well as farming supplies. Each gift basket will also include an afternoon with an experienced and successful farmer or homesteader, including a farm tour and time for questions while you shadow them working at their farm.

A big thank you to the following farmers and donors who are hosting and offering a raffle prize this year!

Check out the raffle by the workshop rooms to try your luck! Funds raised support OEFFA’s educational work.

Raffle Mentor Farms

Green Table Gardens is a certified organic market garden located outside Xenia, featuring intensive vegetable production using permanent raised beds and high tunnels. They distribute vegetables and microgreens through a home-delivery CSA program.

Kelly’s Working Well Farm/More Than a Farm is an educational permaculture farm in Chagrin Falls, raising a wide variety of animals, fruit, nut trees and shrubs, herbs, and vegetables. The farm also showcases natural building techniques.

A’s and O’s Farm is a farm in Mentor that grows and sells trees and shrubs, most of which are fruit producing. The farm advocates environmental stewardship including solar powered vehicles and tools. Partnering with Cheapskate Brewery for a Mead or Wine making demo.

Blue Owl Hollow Forest Farm is an herb and forest farm growing mostly mushrooms, but also ramps, pawpaws and more in the Newark area.

Paul Bell and Sons Farm is a 450 acre farm in Bellefontaine and has been certified organic since 1978. They raise corn, beans, grain, hay and organic beef.

MoSo Farm is outside of Athens and raises grass-fed beef and pastured pork. The focus on regenerating soil, sequestering carbon, and providing nutritious food to customers.

Find Hope Farm is located in Pataskala, raises dairy goats (show and homestead), manages a milk herdshare program, has a large goat brush clearing operation, and recently added Angora fiber goats.

Tenth Acre Farm is a .1-acre home garden in Cincinnati that takes an integrated, food forest approach to growing annual vegetables and herbs among edible perennials. Amy’s award-winning book, The Suburban Micro-Farm, shows how to maximize food production into an edible landscape.

Lauren Craig is a permaculture designer residing on a 1-acre homestead in Xenia. She began by transforming that space into a food forest that already supplies the bulk of their produce year-round, including chickens, rabbits, mushrooms, and more.

From Scratch Farm is a 20-acre mixed vegetable farm outside Johnstown, selling at markets, wholesale, and CSA. Their operation includes chickens and other animals.

River Bend Homestead is a cut flower farm in northwest Ohio, selling flowers through a CSA program, markets, and wholesale. Becca offers regular workshops about gardening, agriculture, flower arranging, wreathmaking, chicken keeping, and more.