Guest Registration for the 2011 Guelph Conference will be open in approximatel 2 months and 7 days. Until then, please check in regularly to scan all of our on-going features:

• Photos from the 2010 January Conference & Trade Show
• Question of the week
• Regular updates about the organic sector
• Other organic event news of interest
• Approved comments at the ‘Leave A Comment’ feedback spots
• YOUR CHANCE to speak out on whatever motivates you – We call it ‘Organic Speakers’ Corner’ ! ….. so take some time to send your opinion.

We’ll have much more complete updates in early September… but until then, be sure to have a prosperous harvest season !

GUEST REGISTRATION BASICS

You have multiple choices after the complete program is announced and the prices determined – on or about November 1, 2010:

*Register for any of the 4-day programs by cheque (mailed in)

*Register for any of the 4-day programs by PayPal (on this Site)

*Pay-at-the-door by cash or cheque (at-the-door prices always higher than the advanced payment prices)

*Pay nothing by simply walking in the door of the Guelph University Centre on Saturday or Sunday, Jan. 29-30 – ! A Free Organic Expo !

PARKING ON OR NEAR CAMPUS (this info will be revised)
If you are not familiar with the Guelph campus area, please take careful note: on the four corners of Stone Rd. and Gordon St., in the south end of Guelph are the following:

(a) Guelph campus (University Centre) at the northeast corner; (B) Best Western Hotel (old Ramada) at the southeast corner; (C) Delta Guelph Hotel at the southwest corner; and (D) the OMAFRA Building at the northwest corner. Less than 1/2 km south of this intersection is the Days Inn, one of the 3 cluster hotels for the Conference.

Thus, if you are staying at the Best Western, Days Inn or Delta, you will “leave your vehicle at the hotel for the weekend” and walk to the Guelph University Centre. We refer to these 3 hotels as the ‘cluster hotels.’

Likewise, for all those attendees who are enrolled in the EFAO trainings on Jan. 28-29 at the OMAFRA Building, you will either walk there from your hotel or park (and pay directly) at the OMAFRA parking lot.

For those attending the CSI Organic Info Day on Jan. 29, you will park at the Arboretum (eastern edge of Guelph campus) where parking is free. For all others (driving onto campus or staying with friends elsewhere in the area), if coming onto campus, we strongly suggest buying a paid parking pass which we offer at $12 for Thursday and $12 for Friday, guaranteeing a parking spot on campus.

The designated parking lot where this pass is to be displayed and used is not that close (let’s be honest… it’s a 400 yard walk) to the Guelph U.C. but it is “guaranteed parking.”

This parking advice is offered to you because regular paid parking on the Guelph campus gets tighter every year and you could “literally” be driving all over campus to find a scarce spot, while actually missing some of your workshop. It has happened in the past because Conf. guests did not plan ahead.

So we suggest you consider pre-purchasing this parking pass prior to arriving on campus, then walking the brisk 5 minutes over to the University Centre, for either or both of Thursday and Friday.

If you don’t want to pre-buy this pass, then the paid/cash parking on campus will run you about $8-$10 on Thursday (if available) and about $12-$16 on Friday (if available). If you want to take your chances with paid on-campus park at the spot rate, please arrive well in advance of your selected workshop time.

Option: take public transit onto the campus – multiple buses run directly to the Guelph U.C. every hour. Note that guest parking on the Guelph campus on Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 30-31…… is free !