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Small Farm Today Conference featuring Mark Kastel, John Ikerd Kelly Klober, Neal Kinsey, Greg Judy

New England Vegetable & Fruit Conference  featuring Jon Clements, Rich Bonanno, Sandy Arnold, Jude Boucher

MN Organic Conference featuring David Vetter, George DeVault, Atina Diffley, Chris Blanchard

NOFA-NY Farming & Gardening Conference featuring Shannon Hayes, Elizabeth Henderson, Sally Fallon Morell, intensive seminars, workshops for farmers, gardeners & consumers

Missouri Organic Association Conference 2/5-6   featuring John Ikerd, Gary Zimmer, Melinda Hemmelgarn Sue Baird

Ohio Ecological Food & Farming Assoc Conference 2/13-14 featuring Joel Salatin, Chef Ann Cooper, 60 workshops

Wisconsin Grazing Conference 

MOSES Organic Farming Conference  featuring CHUCK HASSEBROOK, MARGARET MELLON, John Biernbaum, Jeff Moyers Joel Gruver, 60+ workshops

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HayesShannon Hayes

Real Cows in a Parallel Universe

Drawing from true stories and her pragmatic agrarian sensibilities (and wit), Hayes will examine the nature of life, death and stewardship in family farming and sustainable living, and how the fundamental lessons of caring, compassion and abundance will transform our national culture.

Shannon Hayes is the host of grassfedcooking.com, and the author of The Grassfed Gourmet and The Farmer and the Grill. With luck, the advance copies of her newest book, Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, will be released at this years' conference. Hayes works with three generations of her family raising grassfed and pastured meats on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in Schoharie Co., New York. She has written for numerous national publications, including The New York Times. Her fourth book, Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lovers' Handbook for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies and Living Deliciously is due out in September of 2011.

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HendersonElizabeth Henderson

Chaos or Community? From the Current Food and Climate Crisis to a Food System that is Locally Empowered, Organic and Fair

Elizabeth Henderson takes the title of her speech from Martin Luther King, Jr's 1967 book where he lays out the choice for humanity between nonviolent coexistence and violent coannihilation. We face a choice as critical today: will human beings continue on our current path towards global climate change with the hideous consequences of famine, disease and conflict, or will we rebuild our societies using all that we have learned in organic and sustainable agriculture, and cooperative, solidarity economies? In this talk, Henderson will summarize the dangers we face but concentrate on solutions from her experience of 30 years as a farmer and active participant in the organic movement.

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Friday Full-Day Sessions-6 cds $40/ MP3 $10

2104 Nuts and Bolts for Beginning a Successful Organic Farm    Buy CD   Buy MP3

2106 Nourishing Traditional Diets, The Key to Vibrant Health   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2107 Urban Farming   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2108 Building Better Soil Management!    Buy CD          Buy MP3

2109 Pushing Forward on Wheat Production, Processing, and Marketing    Buy CD   Buy MP3

Intensive Sessions-3 cds each $20/ MP3 $5

2112 From Seed to Bouquet: Growing Organic Cut Flowers in the Northeast   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2113 Getting Started with Organic Beekeeping   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2115 Creating an Effective Workforce for Your Farm        Buy CD   Buy MP3

2116 The Town the Food Saved   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2117 Getting the Most Out of Legume Cover Crops         Buy CD   Buy MP3

2920 Organic Certification   Buy CD   Buy MP3

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Field Crops Workshops

2121 SUNFLOWER SEEDS AS FUEL  AND FOOD Samuel Yoder   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2122 SETTING UP A FLOUR MILLING ENTERPRISE Lee & Linda Purdy   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2123 FINDING & SHARING FIELD CROP EQUIPMENT panel    Buy CD   Buy MP3

2124 GROWING ORGANIC BEER   Buy CD      Buy MP3

2125 THE VERSATILITY OF SMALL GRAINS   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 

Dairy Workshops

2126 JOHNES DISEASE FROM A FARMER’S PERSPECTIVE   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2127 COW HEALTH AND DISEASE: Back to Basics Richard  Holliday,DVM   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2128 APPLYING THE BASICS TO IMPROVE HERD HEALTH Holiday   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2129 HOW TO READ A  COW: Simplified Veterinary Acupuncture Holiday   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2130 FORAGE PRODUCTION 201   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2131 CHEESEMAKING: A Farmer’s Perspective        Buy CD   Buy MP3

Livestock Workshops

2132 MULTI-SPECIES GRAZING Livingston, Glos       Buy CD   Buy MP3

2133 SELLING TO RESTAURANTS: Think Like a Chef   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2134 ORGANIC OPPORTUNITIES WITH NRCS       Buy CD   Buy MP3

2135 FLIES ON PASTURED CATTLE What’s the Buzz?   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2136 LIVESTOCK GUARD DOG ROUNDTABLE       Buy CD   Buy MP3

2940 A FOSTER HEN CAN Drew Piaschyk   Buy CD   Buy MP3

Vegetable Workshops

2141 Strategies for Reducing Tillage in Organic Vegetables   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2150 ROUNDTABLE: Vegetable Diseases & Insect Problems   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2151 COVERING THE SEASONS Mark Dunau & Lisa Wujnovich   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2152 POTATO RESEARCH ON THE FARM AND IN THE GARDEN   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2153 PLANNING FOR FLEXIBILITY IN  EFFECTIVE CROP ROTATION Buy CD   Buy MP3

Fruit & Herbs Workshops

  2156 CULINARY & MEDICINAL MUSHROOM CULTIVATION    Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2957 CULINARY HERB PRIMER   Amy LeBlanc      Buy CD   Buy MP3

2158  ORGANIC BLUEBERRY PRODUCTION   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 

 Beginning Farmers Workshops

 2159 CREATIVE FARM INFRASTRUCTURE   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2160 HALF PINT FARM: Maximum Profit on Two Acres Over 7 Years   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2162 OVERCOMING YOUR FEAR OF BOOKKEEPING Kaplan   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2164 BASIC LIVESTOCK BREEDING FOR SMALL-SCALE FARMS   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2165 FARMING SUSTAINABLY MEANS FARMING SAFELY   Buy CD   Buy MP3

Value Added Processing Workshops

2166 LEAF LARD Jen Small   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2167 WINTER SUN FARMS: Frozen Local Produce & the Winter Share Small-Scale Food Processing      Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2169 SHARED-USE KITCHENS: A Gateway to Value-Added Processing   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2170 CREATING A RESTAURANT ON THE FARM Lou & Merby Lego   Buy CD   Buy MP3

2171 SELLING NEW PRODUCTS FROM YOUR FARM: How to Use a Co-Packer to Expand Your Offerings        Buy CD   Buy MP3

Homesteading Workshops

2172 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN THE URBAN & SUBURBAN  LANDSCAPE: Food Storage, the Missing Link   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2173 LIVING DIVERSITY Portia Weiskel       Buy CD      Buy MP3

 2175 THINKING OUTSIDE THE CHOPS Tom Mylan       Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2176 HOMESTEAD SOAP MAKING Larry Plesent    Buy CD   Buy MP3

 

 

Gardening Workshops

  2179 THE ART OF SHARPENING HAND TOOLS    Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2180 A NATURAL & ORGANIC HOME Dwight Brooks   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2181 THE FAMILY VEGETABLE PLOT Maria Grimaldi     Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2182 PREVENTING GARDEN PESTS & PREDATORS Larry Sombke   Buy CD   Buy MP3

Potpourri

 2183 PERMACULTURE FOR FARMERS 201: Carbon Farming   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2184 RENEWABLE ENERGY & APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ON THE FARM: Tips to Limit Energy Use and Increase Energy Sovereignty   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2185 FUNDING HEALTHY, LOCALLY BASED FOOD SYSTEMS   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2186 GOT REAL MILK?  Sally Fallon Morell   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2187 TILLAGE, SOIL ORGANIC MATTER & CROP PRODUCTION: Lessons from the Iroquois    Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2188 HONEYBEE COLLAPSE: Review and Update   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 

People and Policy

 2190 FOOD PANTRIES GROW THEIR OWN! Miriam Goler   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2191 DRILLING FOR GAS —An Update   Buy CD      Buy MP3

 2192 GMOs IN OUR MIDST   Buy CD   Buy MP3

  2194 SCALE-APPROPRIATE FARM FOOD SAFETY   Buy CD   Buy MP3

 2195 HOW TO DO FOOD JUSTICE ADVOCACY IN YOUR COMMUNITY   Buy CD   Buy MP3