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ABOUT OUR
WORKSHOPS
The Friday &
Saturday workshops are 80-minutes in length, and are
included in the Friday and/or Saturday registration
package. Attendees select which workshops to attend
on-site, and do not sign up for specific workshops in
advance.
We’d like to
extend special thanks to the Conference Planning
Committee, a group of over twenty volunteers, staff &
board, for their hard work and dedication to developing
our top-notch conference programming.
If you have
suggestions for conference workshop speakers or topics
for Farming for the Future 2011, please share those
ideas in your conference evaluation.
Friday,
February 5
Friday 1:00 PM
Innovations in
Organic No-Till: Updates from Rodale Institute
Jeff Moyer, Rodale Institute
Biodynamics: How
Natural & Spiritual Science Can Provide the Foundation
of a New Agriculture
Mac Mead, Pfeiffer Center
Roots & Rewards:
Conservation Payments for Organic Farming
Andy Andrews, Pennypack Farm
Ariane Lotti, Organic Farming Research Foundation
Dave White, USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Gardening Like
the Forest: An Introduction to Home-Scale Food Forestry
Dave Jacke, Dynamics Ecological Design
Digging the
Compost from the Internet & Exploring Micro-tourism for
Your Farm
Jay Warmke, Blue Rock Station
Rebuilding the
Local Food System: Current Models & Strategies from the
Great Lakes Region
Gregory Boulos, Blackberry Meadows Farm
Casey Hoy, Ohio Agriculture Research & Development
Center
Steve Bosserman, Bosserman & Associates, Inc
Regulating Our
Food: An NAIS Update
David Gary Cox, Farm-to-Consumer Legal
Defense Fund
Small-Scale Seed
Production from Plant to Seed to Profit
Tim Mountz, Happy Cat Farm
Heritage Breeds: Use Them to Their Full Potential
Elaine Shirley, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Aged to
Perfection: Cheese Cave Design & Construction
Peter Dixon, Consider Bardwell Farm
Live, Cultured,
& Preserved: The Simple Satisfaction of
Lacto-Fermentation
Maureen Diaz, Weston A Price Gettysburg
Chapter
Being a Good
Steward & Neighbor: Stream Corridor Management
Barry Isaacs & Jana Malot, USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Services
Fueling the
Fork: Energy Realities in a Sustaining Food System
Steve Moore, Harmony Essentials
Starting
Rabbits: A Look at Polyface’s System
Daniel Salatin, Polyface Inc.
The Essentials
of Good Farm Recordkeeping: Managing Seasonal
Cash Flow
Elaine Tweedy & Susan Dillon, SBDC
Agribusiness & Food Specialty Centers
The Nutritional
Alchemy of Plant Biodiversity
Jerry Brunetti, Agri-Dynamics Inc.
Friday 3:00PM
On-Farm
Composting: Feeding Your Soil & Your Community
Cam Tabb, Tabb Farm
Mike Giuranna, EPA Region 3, Solid Waste
Program
Rhodes Yepsen & Nora Goldstein, BioCycle Magazine
The First Ever
National Certified Organic Production Survey
Donald Buysse, USDA National Agricultural
Statistics Service
Keeping Them on
the Farm: Third Generation Farmers Diversifying for
Sustainability & Profit
Henry Frecon & Hank Frecon, Frecon Farms
Advanced Organic
Soil Amendments
Mark Highland, Organic Mechanic Soil
Company LLC
Farm Stories:
Writing the Story of (Unconventional) Agriculture
Lisa M. Hamilton, Deeply Rooted, author
Farming, the
Real Stimulus Program: An Economic Solution is Hiding in
Our Fields
Alan Perry, Farm Technologies Network,
LLC
Maintaining
Profitable Heritage Breeding Stocks
Frank Reese, Reese Poultry Farm
Dr. Edward Buss, Animal Science PhD
Marketing Meat
Made Easy from Field to Table
Daniel Salatin, Polyface Inc.
Using Six-Week
Rotations to Beat the Parasite Cycle
Janet McNally, Tamarack Lamb & Wool
Ecology as a
Model for Organic Dairy Production
Francis Thicke, Radiance Dairy
Food
Preservation for Beginners
Christine Wise & Rita Biddle, Friends
Farm
Building Green,
Living Green
Jay Warmke, Blue Rock Station
Raw Milk Wars
David Gary Cox, Farm-to-Consumer Legal
Defense Fund
How to Grow,
Harvest, Manage, & Market Nut Crops
Michael Gold, University of Missouri
Center for Agroforestry
From Goat to
Market: Lessons Learned on a Microdairy
Dan Ray, StoneCroft Farm
Saturday,
February
6
Saturday 9:10AM
Insect, Disease,
& Salinization Problems in High Tunnel Production
Steve Moore, Harmony Essentials
Beekeeping for
Beginners I
Liam Goble, Half Acre Farm
Growing &
Marketing Our-ganic, Sustainable, Very Local Cut Flowers
Susan & Greta Haney, Long Lane Flower &
Garden
How to Grow,
Harvest, & Process Shiitake Mushrooms
Rusty & Claire Orner, Quiet Creek Herb
Farm
The Pennsylvania
Barn
Robert Ensminger, The Pennsylvania Barn,
author
Jonathan Johnson, Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Can’t Do Without
‘Em: Proper Selection, Use, & Care of Hand
Gardening Tools
Joel Dufour, Earth Tools Inc.
Health from the
Gut Up
Jerry Brunetti, Agri-Dynamics Inc
Sustainable
Education: Integrating Sustainability into Your
Curriculum
Matt Ray, Fernwood Public School
Renewable Energy
for the Sustainable Farmer
Shaun Pardi, Envinity, Inc
Food Safety &
Other Legal Issues for Sustainable Producers
Ross Pifer, PSU Agricultural Law Resource
& Reference Center
Success in
Farming: The Benefits of Networking
Jen Halpin, Dickinson College Farm
Melanie Dietrich Cochran, Keswick Creamery
Sandra Miller, Painted Hand Farm
Beginning
Humanure: The Missing Link in Sustainable Agriculture
Joseph Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Inc.
Earthship
Village Ecologies
Michael Reynolds, Earthship Biotecture
Backyard
Composting Basics & Raised Garden Beds
Mark Highland, The Organic Mechanic Soil
Company, LLC
Carl Hursh, PA Department of Environmental Protection
Finishing Lambs
on Turnips
Janet McNally, Tamarack Lamb & Wool
Saturday 10:40 AM
Putting Pastured
Hogs to Work for You on Your Diversified Farm
Lou Lego, Elderberry Pond Country Foods
Small Scale
Commercial Organic Apples for Intermediate &
Advanced Growers
Brian Caldwell, Hemlock Grove Farm
Beekeeping for
Beginners II
Liam Goble, Half Acre Farm
The Lost Art of
Unpowered Cold Storage & Root Cellars
Don Kretschmann, Kretschmann Farm
Managing Weeds,
Insects, & Disease with Crop Fertility
Alan Perry, Farm Technology Network, LLC
Year-Round
Backyard Mini-Farming: Food with Less Fuel, A
13-Year Roundup
Gene Bazan & Tania Slawecki, Neo-Terra
Winter Misery
Relief: Wild Plants for Food & Medicine
Faye Burtch, Wild Plants for Food and
Medicine: A Survival School
Grace Lefever, Sonnewald Natural Foods
The Next Step:
Food-Grade Small Grain Production & Marketing
Elizabeth Dyck, Northeast Organic Farming
Association of New York
Becoming Food
Alliance Certified: A Look into an Independent
Inspection Process
Scott Exo, Food Alliance
Kim Seeley, Milky Way Dairy
My Weedless
Garden
Lee Reich, PhD, ‘Farmdener’ & Author
An Introduction
to Biochar as a Soil Amendment
Julie Major, International Biochar
Initiative (IBI)
A Guided Tour
through BuyLocalPA.org: Tips on Tools, Site Stats &
User Feedback
Chris Fullerton, PASA’s Director of
Consumer Outreach
Farming with
Your Feet on the Earth: Walk-Behind Tractors for
Small-Scale Farming
Joel Dufour, Earth Tools Inc
Full Season
Insect Barriers for Cucurbit Pests
Leah Tewksbury, Tewksbury Grace Farm
Anne Nordell, Beech Grove Farm
Kit Kelley White Frost Farm
Shelby Fleischer, PhD, PSU Dept of Entomology
Saturday 1:30 PM
Healthy Soil
Foodwebs Build Healthy Farms
Mark Highland, The Organic Mechanic Soil
Company, LLC
Sign ‘em Up:
Getting Beneficial Insects to Work for You
John Tooker, PSU Dept of Entomology
Evaluating Your
Forestlands for Wild Simulated Ginseng Husbandry
Eric Burkhart, Shaver’s Creek
Environmental Center
The Chesapeake
Bay is Bringing Clean Water Requirements to Your
Doorstep. Are You Ready?
Lamonte Garber, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Expanding Your
Markets: Selling Produce through a Cooperative
Mick Kodner, Dancing Creek Farm
Jeff Taylor, Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative
Discover
Sprouted Whole Grain Flour
Janie Quinn, Essential Eating Sprouted
Foods
Luscious
Landscaping for Everyone — with Fruits!
Lee Reich, PhD, ‘Farmdener’ & Author
Growing Your
Farm Business: Business Planning, Forms of Organization,
& Operations Tracking
Elaine Tweedy & Susan Dillon, SBDC
Agribusiness & Food Specialty Centers
Earthen Building
from the Ground Up
Rusty & Claire Orner, Quiet Creek Herb
Farm
Spore Exclusion:
Preventing Downy Mildew in Cucurbits
Lou Lego, Elderberry Pond Country Foods
Transition
Towns: Building Community Resiliency in a Time of Change
Tina Clarke, Transition Network
SPIN-Farming for
Sub-Acreage Vegetable Production
Andy Pressman, National Center for
Appropriate Technology
Itching to Farm?
Start from Scratch: No Land Solutions
Fred deLong, Rushton Farm
Tim Mountz, Happy Cat Farm
Winter Grazing
the Sheep Flock
Janet McNally, Tamarack Lamb & Wool
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