2021 Conference Schedule - NOFA-NYSeed Conference Plant Breeders’ Day, Session 3: Now You Have a...

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Saturday, January 16, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Opening Ceremony Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live Spanish Translation Keynote From Fragility to Resilience: Cultivating the Health of Land, People, and Community Laura Lengnick 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Children’s Programming Visiting Scotland Keena Wildman 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Vegetable The Great Salad Debate: Varieties, Crops, and Timing Paul Arnold, Sandy Arnold, Eric Houppert, and Leon Vehaba 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Soil Health Building: A Culture of Soil Care Wes Gillingham, Liana Hoodes, Elizabeth Henderson, and Patty Lovera 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM ET Seed Conference A Resilient Seed Community Bill Braun and Emily Rose Haga 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Special Event Virtual Witness to Injustice Residents of the Onondaga Nation and members of NOON 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Fireside Chat: Resilience Thinking for Health Laura Lengnick 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Holistic Botany Ken Greene, Hannah Traggis, Banu Subramaniam, and Xan Chacko 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET Entertainment Virtual Variety Show Bob Cat Bonagura Sunday, January 17, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading The New Normal: Strong Communities and Reciprocal Foodways Iris Fen Gillingham 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Collaboration and Cultivation Within the Urban Farming Community Matt Kauffman and Katie Pfohl 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Seed Saving 101, Session 1: A Historical and Human Perspective Lex Barlowe 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Lessons Learned from Lightning-Fast Market Pivots: What Worked and What Didn’t Corinne Hansch, Zaid Kurdieh, and Raymond Luhrman 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Adaptive Grazing Management Karen Hoffmann 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Launch Your Online Farm Store: Tools and Tips for eCommerce Kristina Snyder 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Seed Saving 101, Session 2: A Historic and Human Perspective Jacqueline Pilati, Myra Manning, Zainab Muhammad, Roberta Cuyjet, and Glen Cuyjet 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Fruit The Art of Maple Syrup Production Amy McKinnon and Brian Ryther 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Cannabis / Hemp Policy Update Kaelan Castetter, Jason Minard, and Andrew Rosner 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Western Regional Discussion Group Laura Colligan 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Northeast Seed Savers’ Evening Meet Up Monday, January 18, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading Growing in the Garden, Mind, and Spirit During the Winter Months Maria and Tom Blon 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Food That Moves: Reaching Consumers at the Neighborhood Level with a Mobile Market Truck Taylor Johnson and Danielle Rovillo 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Live French Translation Vegetable + Seed Production Intro to Organic Seed Production, Session 1: Making the Case, and Making the Space for Seed Production Matthew Glenn, Chris Sanford, and Laurie McKenzie 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation Business + Marketing Intro to Organic Certification Jessica Terry 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Making Tinctures and Salves for Use on Livestock Liz Bawden 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Hemp Organic Hemp Certification and Policy Update Allan Gandelman and Lauren Tonti 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live French Translation Vegetable + Seed Production Intro to Organic Seed Production, Session 2: Thinking from Seed to Seed – how a Market Crop and a Seed Crop Merge, Differ, and how to Consider what Seed Crop can Succeed within your Existing Farm Plan Kristen Loria, Roberta Bailey, Matthew Goldfarb, and Lia Babitch 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Maple Certification Jessica Terry 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp Working Soil Health Practices into Industrial Hemp Production Jennifer Gilbert-Jenkins 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Seed Conference Meet Up with Your Northeast Seed Contract Folks! Maggie Ericksen and Heron Breen 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Finger Lakes Regional Discussion Group 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Land Access Discussion Group POSTPONED Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Northeast Seed Growers’ Evening Meet Up Heron Breen, Laurie McKenzie, Matthew Goldfarb, and Cathleen McCluskey Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading Dyeing with Regional Plants Laura Sansone 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Modified Hugelkultur for Urban Growing Kyle Rittenburg 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Seed and Plant Pathology of Common Northeast Seed Crops Alicyn Smart, Sue Scheufele, and Lindsey du Toit 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Walk-behind Tractors! David Hambleton 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Raising and Marketing Small Breed Pigs Jennifer Bassman and Karma Glos 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Soil Health Field Indicators for Soil Health: DIY Assessment for Farmers and Gardeners, Session 1 Caro Roszell 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Value-Added Getting Permission to Sell Your Packaged Food Products John Luker 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Meet the Seed Activists and Not-For-Profits Serving the Northeast Ken Greene, Lia Babitch, Bill Braun, Jacqueline Pilati, Cara Loriz, Emily Rose Haga, and Bonnetta Adeeb 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Soil Health Field Indicators for Soil Health: DIY Assessment for Farmers and Gardeners, Session 2 Caro Roszell 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp Back to Reality: Operating a Cannabinoid Hemp Company / Farm in New York David Falkowski 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Central Regional Discussion Group Bobcat Bonagura and Maryrose Livingston 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Land Access Discussion Group POSTPONED Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School Creating an Ecotypic Seed Network in the Northeast: A roundtable needs assessment on ecoregional seed amplification Ed Toth, Sara Tangren, Heather McCargo, Hope Leeson, Dina Brewster, and Polly Weigand Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading Foraging to Create Medicine Dina Falconi 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Making a Living As An Urban Market Gardener Mayda Pozantides 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Live French Translation Seed Conference Plant Breeders Day, Session 1: So You Want to Be a Plant Breeder? Richard Favreau, Solveig Hanson, and Michael Glos 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Dairy From the Field: Soil Carbon Sequestration in Practice Phyllis Van Amburgh 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Pricing your CSA Elizabeth Higgins and Briana Alfaro 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Dairy Reduced Tillage Systems and Covercropping on Organic Dairy Farms Kate Parsons 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Fruit Biological Control of Soil Pests: A Chestnut Case Study Camila Filgueiras and Denis Willett 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live French Translation Seed Conference Plant Breeders Day, Session 2: How to Source Germplasm Laurie McKenzie, Lindsay Wyatt, and Nathan Kleinman 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Handling / Processing / Distributor Certification Rebecca Heller-Steinberg and Ashleigh Knecht 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp The Hemp Farmer Entrepreneur Doug Fine 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Live French Translation Seed Conference Plant Breeders’ Day, Session 3: Now You Have a New Variety!! What’s Next? Visions for Classic and Emergent Models Jason Cavatorta, Petra Page-Mann, and Craig LeHoullier 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group North Country Regional Discussion Group 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group OFRF Listening Session Thursday, January 21, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Soil Health How Producers can be Climate Heroes Seth Itzkan 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Value-Added Insurance Requirements for Farmers and Food Processors Bob Bleistein 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Womxn in Regional Seed, Plant, and Farm Work Meet-up Petra Page-Mann 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Dairy Maximizing Intake and Milk with Highly Digestible Forages Karen Hoffman 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Storage Crops Intensive: Growing, Curing, and Storing for Winter Markets, Session 1: Growing for Storage Chris Callahan, Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison, and Nathaniel Thompson 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Dairy DIY Soil Carbon Proxy Testing for Dairy Farmers Sarah Ficken and Robert Perry 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Vegetable Storage Crops Intensive: Growing, Curing, and Storing for Winter Markets, Session 2: Storage Chris Callahan, Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison, and Nathaniel Thompson 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Pushing Boundaries Julia Aguilar, Sefra Alexandra, Jacqueline Pilati, Aaron Parker, and Namai Pandit 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Connecting Food and Farming in the Classroom Katie Carpenter 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Dance, Sing, and Create Stone Soup Tannis Kowalchuk and Jessica Beveridge 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Capital Regional Discussion Group Crystal Stewart-Courtens 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Keynote Address: Seeds for a Decolonial Botany Banu Sabramaniam Friday, January 22, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading Anticapitalism in the Garden Natalia Rathbun 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Business + Marketing Building Economic Resilience: How to Evaluate your Pivots Julia Shanks 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Discussion Group LGBTQ Roundtable Jamie Levato, SonyaJoy Key, and Maggie Cheney 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Cultivating Resilience with Whole Farm Planning, Session 1 Laura Lengnick 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Managing Organic Goats in a 100% Grass-fed System David Belding 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School Ecotypes, Ecoregions & Ecological Restoration: a seed-school intensive for seed farmers interested in producing Northeast native plant materials for biodiversity & ecological restoration Part 1: Theory Polly Weigand, Hope Leeson, and Michael Butts 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Fruit Small-scale Orchards for your Local Community Brett Budde, Brian Caldwell, and Jason Townsend 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Gardening + Homesteading Unleashing the Power of Imagination: Making your Community More Resilient for Economic Happiness Rob Hopkins 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School Ecotypes, Ecoregions & Ecological Restoration: a seed-school intensive for seed farmers interested in producing Northeast native plant materials for biodiversity & ecological restoration Part 2: Practice Polly Weigand, Hope Leeson, and Michael Butts 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Getting to the Roots of Fermentation for Resilience Sandor Ellix Katz 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Catskills / Hudson Valley Regional Discussion Group Wes Gillingham 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Friday Night Open Mike: Seed Stories and Poems Heron Breen and Maddie Halpert 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET Entertainment Virtual Variety Show Bob Cat Bonagura Saturday, January 23, 2021 Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s) 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments Nigel Palmer 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Value-Added Recipe Approval: Making Sure Your Food Product is Safe Bruno Xavier and Shannon Prozeller 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Seed Stories Opportunities and Collaborations, Session 1: Indigenous Seed Stories and Opportunities Keely Curliss, Angela Ferguson, and Terrylynn Brant 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Cultivating Resilience with Whole Farm Planning, Session 2 Laura Lengnick 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Gardening + Homesteading Feeding the World from our Backyards: A Permaculture Approach Andrew Faust 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Closing Ceremony Amanda David and Mandana Boushee 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation Keynote Farmer of the Year Address Brian Caldwell 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Children's Programming Organic Trivia Keena Wildman 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Seed Stories Opportunities and Collaborations, Session 2: Collaborations Ken Greene, Kenny Perkins, Janice Brant, and Manuel Lizarralde 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation Policy Policy in 2021 – What Did the Election Mean for Food and Farm Policy Patty Lovera and Liana Hoodes 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Wow Your Guests with Vegan Appetizers Bhavani Jaroff 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Coffee Talk with NOFA-NY Certification Staff NOFA-NY Certified Organic, LLC 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group NYC / Long Island Regional Discussion Group Don Cimato 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Evening Seed Meet Up Elizabeth Hoover 2021 Conference Schedule

Transcript of 2021 Conference Schedule - NOFA-NYSeed Conference Plant Breeders’ Day, Session 3: Now You Have a...

  • Saturday, January 16, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Opening Ceremony Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live Spanish Translation

    Keynote From Fragility to Resilience: Cultivating the Health of Land, People, and Community

    Laura Lengnick

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Children’s Programming

    Visiting Scotland Keena Wildman

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Vegetable The Great Salad Debate: Varieties, Crops, and Timing Paul Arnold, Sandy Arnold, Eric Houppert, and Leon Vehaba

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Soil Health Building: A Culture of Soil Care Wes Gillingham, Liana Hoodes, Elizabeth Henderson, and Patty Lovera

    4:00 PM - 5:30 PM ET Seed Conference A Resilient Seed Community Bill Braun and Emily Rose Haga

    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Special Event Virtual Witness to Injustice Residents of the Onondaga Nation and members of NOON

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Fireside Chat: Resilience Thinking for Health Laura Lengnick

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Holistic Botany Ken Greene, Hannah Traggis, Banu Subramaniam, and Xan Chacko

    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET Entertainment Virtual Variety Show Bob Cat Bonagura

    Sunday, January 17, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    The New Normal: Strong Communities and Reciprocal Foodways

    Iris Fen Gillingham

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Collaboration and Cultivation Within the Urban Farming Community

    Matt Kauffman and Katie Pfohl

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Seed Saving 101, Session 1: A Historical and Human Perspective

    Lex Barlowe

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Lessons Learned from Lightning-Fast Market Pivots: What Worked and What Didn’t

    Corinne Hansch, Zaid Kurdieh, and Raymond Luhrman

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Adaptive Grazing Management Karen Hoffmann

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Launch Your Online Farm Store: Tools and Tips for eCommerce

    Kristina Snyder

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Seed Saving 101, Session 2: A Historic and Human Perspective

    Jacqueline Pilati, Myra Manning, Zainab Muhammad, Roberta Cuyjet, and Glen Cuyjet

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Fruit The Art of Maple Syrup Production Amy McKinnon and Brian Ryther

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Cannabis / Hemp Policy Update Kaelan Castetter, Jason Minard, and Andrew Rosner

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Western Regional Discussion Group Laura Colligan

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Northeast Seed Savers’ Evening Meet Up

    Monday, January 18, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Growing in the Garden, Mind, and Spirit During the Winter Months

    Maria and Tom Blon

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Food That Moves: Reaching Consumers at the Neighborhood Level with a Mobile Market Truck

    Taylor Johnson and Danielle Rovillo

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Live French Translation

    Vegetable + Seed Production

    Intro to Organic Seed Production, Session 1: Making the Case, and Making the Space for Seed Production

    Matthew Glenn, Chris Sanford, and Laurie McKenzie

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation

    Business + Marketing Intro to Organic Certification Jessica Terry

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Making Tinctures and Salves for Use on Livestock Liz Bawden

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Hemp Organic Hemp Certification and Policy Update Allan Gandelman and Lauren Tonti

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live French Translation

    Vegetable + Seed Production

    Intro to Organic Seed Production, Session 2: Thinking from Seed to Seed – how a Market Crop and a Seed Crop Merge, Differ, and how to Consider what Seed Crop can Succeed within your Existing Farm Plan

    Kristen Loria, Roberta Bailey, Matthew Goldfarb, and Lia Babitch

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Maple Certification Jessica Terry

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp Working Soil Health Practices into Industrial Hemp Production

    Jennifer Gilbert-Jenkins

    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Seed Conference Meet Up with Your Northeast Seed Contract Folks! Maggie Ericksen and Heron Breen

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Finger Lakes Regional Discussion Group

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Land Access Discussion Group POSTPONED Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Northeast Seed Growers’ Evening Meet Up Heron Breen, Laurie McKenzie, Matthew Goldfarb, and Cathleen McCluskey

    Tuesday, January 19, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Dyeing with Regional Plants Laura Sansone

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Modified Hugelkultur for Urban Growing Kyle Rittenburg

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Seed and Plant Pathology of Common Northeast Seed Crops

    Alicyn Smart, Sue Scheufele, and Lindsey du Toit

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Walk-behind Tractors!

    David Hambleton

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Raising and Marketing Small Breed Pigs Jennifer Bassman and Karma Glos

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Soil Health Field Indicators for Soil Health: DIY Assessment for Farmers and Gardeners, Session 1

    Caro Roszell

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Value-Added Getting Permission to Sell Your Packaged Food Products John Luker

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Meet the Seed Activists and Not-For-Profits Serving the Northeast

    Ken Greene, Lia Babitch, Bill Braun, Jacqueline Pilati, Cara Loriz, Emily Rose Haga, and Bonnetta Adeeb

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Soil Health Field Indicators for Soil Health: DIY Assessment for Farmers and Gardeners, Session 2

    Caro Roszell

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp Back to Reality: Operating a Cannabinoid Hemp Company / Farm in New York

    David Falkowski

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Central Regional Discussion Group Bobcat Bonagura and Maryrose Livingston

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Land Access Discussion Group POSTPONED Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School

    Creating an Ecotypic Seed Network in the Northeast: A roundtable needs assessment on ecoregional seed amplification

    Ed Toth, Sara Tangren, Heather McCargo, Hope Leeson, Dina Brewster, and Polly Weigand

    Wednesday, January 20, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Foraging to Create Medicine Dina Falconi

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Urban Farming Making a Living As An Urban Market Gardener Mayda Pozantides

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Live French Translation

    Seed Conference Plant Breeders Day, Session 1: So You Want to Be a Plant Breeder?

    Richard Favreau, Solveig Hanson, and Michael Glos

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Dairy From the Field: Soil Carbon Sequestration in Practice Phyllis Van Amburgh

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Pricing your CSA Elizabeth Higgins and Briana Alfaro

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Dairy Reduced Tillage Systems and Covercropping on Organic Dairy Farms

    Kate Parsons

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Fruit Biological Control of Soil Pests: A Chestnut Case Study Camila Filgueiras and Denis Willett

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Live French Translation

    Seed Conference Plant Breeders Day, Session 2: How to Source Germplasm

    Laurie McKenzie, Lindsay Wyatt, and Nathan Kleinman

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Handling / Processing / Distributor Certification Rebecca Heller-Steinberg and Ashleigh Knecht

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Hemp The Hemp Farmer Entrepreneur Doug Fine

    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Live French Translation

    Seed Conference Plant Breeders’ Day, Session 3: Now You Have a New Variety!! What’s Next? Visions for Classic and Emergent Models

    Jason Cavatorta, Petra Page-Mann, and Craig LeHoullier

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group North Country Regional Discussion Group

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group OFRF Listening Session

    Thursday, January 21, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Soil Health How Producers can be Climate Heroes Seth Itzkan

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Value-Added Insurance Requirements for Farmers and Food Processors

    Bob Bleistein

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Womxn in Regional Seed, Plant, and Farm Work Meet-up Petra Page-Mann

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Dairy Maximizing Intake and Milk with Highly Digestible Forages

    Karen Hoffman

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Vegetable Storage Crops Intensive: Growing, Curing, and Storing for Winter Markets, Session 1: Growing for Storage

    Chris Callahan, Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison, and Nathaniel Thompson

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Dairy DIY Soil Carbon Proxy Testing for Dairy Farmers Sarah Ficken and Robert Perry

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Vegetable Storage Crops Intensive: Growing, Curing, and Storing for Winter Markets, Session 2: Storage

    Chris Callahan, Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison, and Nathaniel Thompson

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Pushing Boundaries Julia Aguilar, Sefra Alexandra, Jacqueline Pilati, Aaron Parker, and Namai Pandit

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Policy Connecting Food and Farming in the Classroom Katie Carpenter

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Dance, Sing, and Create Stone Soup Tannis Kowalchuk and Jessica Beveridge

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Capital Regional Discussion Group Crystal Stewart-Courtens

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Keynote Address: Seeds for a Decolonial Botany Banu Sabramaniam

    Friday, January 22, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Anticapitalism in the Garden Natalia Rathbun

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Business + Marketing Building Economic Resilience: How to Evaluate your Pivots

    Julia Shanks

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Discussion Group LGBTQ Roundtable Jamie Levato, SonyaJoy Key, and Maggie Cheney

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Cultivating Resilience with Whole Farm Planning, Session 1

    Laura Lengnick

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Livestock Managing Organic Goats in a 100% Grass-fed System David Belding

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    1:00 PM - 2:15 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School

    Ecotypes, Ecoregions & Ecological Restoration: a seed-school intensive for seed farmers interested in producing Northeast native plant materials for biodiversity & ecological restoration Part 1: Theory

    Polly Weigand, Hope Leeson, and Michael Butts

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Fruit Small-scale Orchards for your Local Community Brett Budde, Brian Caldwell, and Jason Townsend

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Unleashing the Power of Imagination: Making your Community More Resilient for Economic Happiness

    Rob Hopkins

    2:30 PM - 4:00 PM ET Seed Conference / The Ecotype Seed School

    Ecotypes, Ecoregions & Ecological Restoration: a seed-school intensive for seed farmers interested in producing Northeast native plant materials for biodiversity & ecological restoration Part 2: Practice

    Polly Weigand, Hope Leeson, and Michael Butts

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Getting to the Roots of Fermentation for Resilience Sandor Ellix Katz

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Catskills / Hudson Valley Regional Discussion Group Wes Gillingham

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Friday Night Open Mike: Seed Stories and Poems Heron Breen and Maddie Halpert

    8:00 PM - 10:00 PM ET Entertainment Virtual Variety Show Bob Cat Bonagura

    Saturday, January 23, 2021

    Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    The Regenerative Growers Guide to Garden Amendments

    Nigel Palmer

    10:00 AM - 11:15 AM ET Value-Added Recipe Approval: Making Sure Your Food Product is Safe Bruno Xavier and Shannon Prozeller

    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Seed Stories Opportunities and Collaborations, Session 1: Indigenous Seed Stories and Opportunities

    Keely Curliss, Angela Ferguson, and Terrylynn Brant

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Business + Marketing Cultivating Resilience with Whole Farm Planning, Session 2

    Laura Lengnick

    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM ET Gardening + Homesteading

    Feeding the World from our Backyards: A Permaculture Approach

    Andrew Faust

    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET BIPOC Space In Living Color Virtual BIPOC Space Closing Ceremony Amanda David and Mandana Boushee

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation

    Keynote Farmer of the Year Address Brian Caldwell

    2:00 PM - 3:15 PM ET Children's Programming Organic Trivia Keena Wildman

    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Seed Stories Opportunities and Collaborations, Session 2: Collaborations

    Ken Greene, Kenny Perkins, Janice Brant, and Manuel Lizarralde

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Live Spanish Translation

    Policy Policy in 2021 – What Did the Election Mean for Food and Farm Policy

    Patty Lovera and Liana Hoodes

    4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET Kitchen Demo Wow Your Guests with Vegan Appetizers Bhavani Jaroff

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group Coffee Talk with NOFA-NY Certification Staff NOFA-NY Certified Organic, LLC

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Discussion Group NYC / Long Island Regional Discussion Group Don Cimato

    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET Seed Conference Indigenous Evening Seed Meet Up Elizabeth Hoover

    2021 Conference Schedule