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