 The 2024 Eastern Kentucky Farmers Conference is returning to Moorhead, Kentucky February 16th and 17th and the Pikeville Farmers Market is working to ensure all local farmers can attend. We've been advertising and we've even offered to pay the registration fee to get the group and build our farmers market. This is a good way to bring people in to see different ways to do any things. It's also a good way to get financial training and see the possibilities how grants can help them at all. You can make contacts with a lot of the bigger people that want to, if you want to increase and grow beyond our local farmers market and local sales, there's a lot of contacts for it. It also provides training at a very inappropriate time because there's not a whole lot going on with the farm right now. Perfect time to gain information and start planning for the year. The Pikeville Farmers Market is also offering free transportation to the conference. Registration for the conference is open until January 31st. There's a lot of things going on. On Saturday afternoon, they've got a beekeeping section for what goes wrong. We have one of the largest beekeeping groups in the state and I think we can benefit for it. There's section on wildlife. There's different mushroom trainings and everything going on. There's a section on training for arts or crafts in the farmers market. We have a lot of talented people here in Pike County. This is an opportunity for them to learn different things and to do financial management and marketing. Anybody in any business needs marketing. Buries, high tunnels are actually producing seeds to sell. I think agriculture is one of our answers here in eastern Kentucky. For more information and to register, call the Pike County Extension Office at 606-432-2534. Reporting for Mountaintop News, I'm Brianna Robinson.