Crisis and Resilience conference

 

Click on the Program Cover to Flip Through Full Conference Program   Member Price: $75 Non-Member Price: $120 Scholarships Available!     Register Today!   Renew your membership first and save! Not sure if your membership is active? No problem! We've recently started using new member management software and are here to help you navigate it. Check out our FAQs here and email deb@futureharvest.org with questions.     Friday Opening Keynote: Growing a New World   Tope Fajingbesi, Farmer, Author, Lecturer, and Accountant. Dodo Farms and the University of Maryland, IAA   Agriculture is often viewed simply as an economic activity. To millions of people and communities around the world, agriculture has been, is, and will continue to mean, so much more. Through stories and historical examples, Tope will speak about the critical role farming has played in healing, growing humans, shaping culture, and helping communities overcome adversity, and call on all of us to rise up and explore ways we can use farming to heal our communities during this difficult time in US history.     Saturday Opening Keynote: The Next Agriculture Economy   Chris Newman, Farmer, Writer, Activist. Sylvanaqua Farms   The future of farming in America faces broad, systemic challenges, including access to land, markets, and capital; processing infrastructure; distribution; farm succession; farmworker exploitation and quality of life; land-use change; and environmental degradation. Our settler/colonial culture, unfortunately, with its reverence of the individual, has largely atomized the discussion to be about farms and consumer behavior rather than systemic change.    This has led to a sustainable agriculture movement that's big on cultural capital but small on impact. In this keynote, Chris will discuss an emerging design for an integrated, BIPOC-led food system in the Chesapeake Bay region that creates the necessary conditions for truly thriving farms, communities, and the environment.     TRACK HIGHLIGHTS:     Herbal Self-Care for Farmers with Violet King, herbalist and farmer, DC Herbal Mutual Aid Apothecary Irrigation Systems for the Small, Mixed Vegetable Garden with Adam Cottrell, Floating Lotus Farmstead     To Scale Up or Scale Down - That's the Question with Ellen Polishuk, Plant to Profit Mitigating Financial Risk in the Time of COVID-19 with Tope Fajingbesi, Dodo Farms     Weed Control: The Right Tool For the Right Job and Record Keeping and Crop Planning with Josh Volk of Slow Hand Farm Hand-Scale Cover Cropping with Cindy Connor, Homeplace Earth     We're Still Here: How the Farm Alliance Used Community Resources to Help Micro-Scale Farms Survive the Pandemic with Alison Worman; Denzel Mitchell, and Mariya Strauss, Farm Alliance of Baltimore Feeding the Fight: Black Farms, Communities, and How CSA's Can Get Political with Violet King and Zachari Curtis, Dreaming Out Loud     Lessons Learned From Adopting and Grazing Summer Annuals with Jacob Gilley, American Farmland Trust, Sustainable Grazing Project Key Tips for Raising Small Ruminants Naturally with Renard Turner, Vanguard Ranch     Cover Cropping and Reducing Tillage Within Annual Vegetable Production with Casey Gustowarow The Million Acre Challenge (MAC) Presents: The Dollars and Sense of Soil Health with Jill Lada, Green Things Farm Collective (pictured), Keisha Cameron, High Hog Farm and Rick Clark, Farm Green     View Full Conference Program     Questions? Contact Gail Taylor, Conference Manager, at gail@futureharvest.org.     REGISTER