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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