The Southeast-St Mary Deanery Catholic Rural Life announces its annual Local Foods Conference will be on Sunday, February 4, 2024 from 1:30 – 4:30 PM at St. George Church in Georgetown, Ohio. The day will include a keynote presentation on the State of Agriculture in the region as well as a presentation on local Food trucks. Three workshops will follow opportunities to meet with several local producers who will have displays that day.  In addition to Catholic Rural Life a program of the Catholic Social Action Office of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,  the event is co-sponsored by the Adams Brown Counties Diabetes Education Coalition, Adams Brown Community Action Partnership and Brown County OSU Extension Office. All are welcome.

To celebrate our rural Catholic heritage, the St. Martin Deanery Farm Mass, with Archbishop Schnurr as principal celebrant, will be held at the home of Tim and Lori Leibreich at 5517 Franklin Road, Hillsboro, Ohio, 45133 on September 17 at 7:00 pm. All priests of the deanery are invited to concelebrate and parishioners from throughout the deanery are encouraged to attend, whether or not they live on a farm. A social gathering will follow the Mass. For further information, contact Marilyn Fryer at 937-515-9075 or mmmrf1989@frontier.com

To celebrate our rural Catholic heritage, the St. Martin Deanery Farm Mass, with Archbishop Schnurr as principal celebrant, will be held at the home of Tim and Lori Leibreich at 5517 Franklin Road, Hillsboro, Ohio, 45133 on September 17 at 7:00 pm. All priests of the deanery are invited to concelebrate and parishioners from throughout the deanery are encouraged to attend, whether or not they live on a farm. A social gathering will follow the Mass. For further information, contact Marilyn Fryer at 937-515-9075 or mmmrf1989@frontier.com