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2017 Young Farmers Conference

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

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Lisa Wheeler Duff

Oak Spring Farm
Owner/operator/farmer
Freeland, MD

oakspring-farm.com

9:00am EST

Registration, Coffee, Opening Remarks Hayloft

11:00am EST

Marketing Cut Flowers PC ILIMITEDShannon Algiere • Angela DeFelice • Jenny Elliot • Estelle Silberman

12:45pm EST

Lunch and Lunchtime Talk: What is Agroecology? HayloftRicardo Salvador • Jack Algiere • Ernesto Mendez • Karen Washington

2:00pm EST

Edible Landscapes Tour CourtyardFULLLaura Perkins

3:45pm EST

Balancing a Landscape: Honeybee Health and Plant Diversity West HaybarnLIMITEDJack Algiere • Laura Perkins • Maggie Schwed

5:30pm EST

Keynote HayloftMark Bittman • Ricardo Salvador

6:30pm EST

7:30am EST

Breakfast and Opening Remarks Hayloft

9:00am EST

Slow Tools and Appropriate Technology GreenhouseFILLINGJack Algiere • Horace Clemmons • Eliot Coleman • Adam Lemieux

12:15pm EST

Lunch and Lunchtime Talk: Agroequity HayloftYana Gilbuena • Hannah Koski • Margiana Peterson-Rockney • Shakirah Simley

1:30pm EST

Stone Barns Center Tour CourtyardLIMITEDShannon Algiere

3:15pm EST

Farming Smarter Not Harder: Planning for Profit West HaybarnFILLINGRichard Wiswall

5:15pm EST

Keynote: M. Sanjayan HayloftM. Sanjayan

6:15pm EST

Dinner West Haybarn

8:00pm EST

Contra Dance: The Edith and Bennett Band HayloftEdith Gawler • Bennett Konesni

7:30am EST

Breakfast and Opening Remarks Hayloft

9:00am EST

Plenary: Women on the Verge HayloftKathleen Finlay • Navina Khanna • Danielle Nierenberg • Laurie Freyer

10:15am EST

Crop Production East HaybarnFILLINGJack Algiere • Flor Revolorio • Nancy Vail • Richard Wiswall

12:00pm EST

1:15pm EST

Crop Roundtable: La Ferme de Quatre Temp/Les Jardins de la Grelinette LibraryFILLINGJean-Martin Fortier

3:00pm EST

Closing Ceremony: Worksongs CourtyardEdith Gawler • Bennett Konesni