- Saturday Morning Workshops
- Tomato Grafting
- Slow-Growth Poultry
- Finding Food Truth
- CSA Planning
- Sunflowers for Fuel
- Organic Dairy Grazing
- Organic Certification
- Organic Apples
- Intercropping
- Plants for Health
- Biodynamics
- Plastic Bottle Greenhouse
- Field Crops
- Cancer & Diet
- Saturday Afternoon Workshops
- Vet Tips
- Seed Starting
- Weed Control: Vegetables
- Greenhouse Building
- Cover Crops in Organics
- Soda and Sauerkraut
- Water Analysis & Design
- Market to Restaurants
- Energy Crisis Deconstruction
- Local Milk Model
- Biodynamics
- Early Vegetables/Greenhouse
- Grain Weed/Pest Mgmt Q&A
- What's in Store?
- Web 2.0 World
- Organic Inspectors
- Electrify Chores
- Herdshares Legalities
- Sunday Morning Workshops
- Localized, Direct Market Production
- Livestock Pasture Management
- Soil-Plant-Animal Connection
- Building Green
- Biodynamics Q&A
- Natural Horse Care
- SPIN Farming
- Ecological Revolution
- Tourism Marketing Strategy
- Soil Health & Our Future
- Horse Care Q&A
- Food Safety
- Women Farmers Q&A
- Be Popular at Market
- Sunday Afternoon Workshops
- Perennial-Cropping
- Gardening
- Bramble Production & Marketing
- Field Crops
- Sheep & Parasite Resistance
- Food Demo
- Establishing a Green Mission
- Record Keeping
- Homemade Electricity
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Long time organic farmer, and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, Fred Kirschenmann manages his family's 3,500 acre North Dakota organic farm, 1,000 of which is in native prairie and is used for grazing livestock. The rest of the land is planted in eight-to-nine crops each year, in three different rotations. In addition to his past work as director of the Leopold Center, he helped to found Farm Verified Organic, Inc. (a private certification agency) and the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society. He has held many national and international appointments and has authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture. Fred's keynote address will acknowledge that change is forever constant, and discuss how the ecological farm movement, knowing this, is poised to deal with the effects of industrialization and the current energy situation.
Dynamic dietitian and award winning writer Melinda Hemmelgarn founded and formerly directed the Nutrition Communications Center at the University of Missouri, and blazed the trail for blending nutrition education with media literacy. Her provocative yet practical columns and national conference presentations cover cutting edge nutrition and food safety issues. In 2007, Melinda received an American Dietetic Association Award for Excellence in Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. Melinda will discuss the current climate of food systems-one that has encouraged people to eat empty and unhealthy calories-and will provide a road map to eating "ecologically." With humor, kindness, and enthusiasm, she will invite participants to "think beyond their plates" and better understand how daily food choices affect personal health and the planet the next generation will inherit.
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Although
we are no longer accepting pre-registrations,
we welcome walk in registrations to the conference.
There is a good chance that Conference Meals will be sold out. If you have not yet purchased meals, please consider bringing a snack with you.
See you there!
Granville School
