The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) conference, now in its 24th year, is an event that welcomes everyone, and that you shouldn’t miss! Going up the escalator, you’ll pass an Amish family, a young African-American couple, a young hipster, a white-bearded old-timer, and a Hispanic family. Basically there’s one of everyone–and it doesn’t matter where you are on the social, political, ethnic, or religious spectra–you are here for one thing: to learn more about organic farming, and to learn from experienced farmers themselves. And along the way, you eat great locally-sourced organic food, dig into meaty topics, and make new friend. The conference begins Thursday, Feb 21 with ten full-day pre-conference Organic University courses, and goes on to feature more than 70 workshops Friday and Saturday, Feb 22-23. There are also 170 tradeshow exhibitors from seed companies to equipment manufacturers. This is the largest educational and networking event for the U.S. organic farming community, in 2012, the MOSES conference welcomed over 3,000 people, and expects to surpass that number this year. In my humble opinion, it is not only the biggest, but the best. For more information: www.mosesorganic.org/conference/html