Beginning Farmer Track at NOFA Summer Conference
Posted: June 22, 2012
Beginning Farmer Track at the NOFA
Summer Conference
August 10-12, 2012
UMass Amherst
Click here to read descriptions of the following workshops in the Beginning Farmer Track:
4) Cooperative Farm Labor Structures
Ryan Karb, Many Hands Farm Corps,
Pelham, MA
10) Introduction to Soil Fertility
David Forster, Forster Soil
Management, Newington, CT
27) Growing Winter Greens
Nancy Hanson, Hampshire College CSA,
Amherst, MA
30) Nature as Mentor: Raising Pigs in
the Woods
Craig Haney, Stone Barns Center for
Food and Agriculture, Sleepy Hollow, NY
34) Protecting Your Working Body: Self
care & Ergonomics for Farmers
Lydia Irons, The Flexible Farmer,
Amherst, MA
38) Starting a CSA
Carolyn Llewellyn, Glynwood Center,
Cold Spring, NY
51) CSA Financial Management
Dan Kaplan, Brookfield Farm,
Amherst, MA
54) Farm-built Wireless Greenhouse
Monitor
Benjamin Shute, Hearty Roots Community
Farm, Germantown, NY &
Louis Thiery,
Farm Hack, Cambridge, MA
63) Starting a Farm Mine and Yours
Elizabeth Henderson, Newark, NY
67) TOUR: Many Hands Farm Corps Farm:
DIY Greenhouse Frame Construction
Ryan Karb, Many Hands Farm Corps,
Pelham, MA
82) Farming Smarter, Not Harder:
Planning for Profit (pt 1 of 2)
108) Farmer-Friendly Enterprise Budgets Made Simple (pt 2 of 2)
Richard Wiswall, Plainfield, VT
88) Micro-dairying
Sarah Fournier-Scanlon, Taproot
Commons Farm, Cummington, MA
107) Cooperatives in Farming and the
Food System
Mary Hoyer, Amherst, MA & Adam
Trott, Valley Alliance of Worker Co-ops,
Northampton, MA
144) DIY Alternative Energy on the Farm
Bill MacKentley, St. Lawrence
Nurseries., Potsdam, NY
160) Create a Strategic Plan for Your
Farm/Business
Jack Mastrianni, Sustainable Growth
Partners, Langdon, NH
173) Soil: The Super Ecosystem of
Ecosystems
Jerry Brunetti, Martins Creek, PA
183) Building & Managing Low-tech,
Low-cost, Low-tunnels
Dan
Botkin, Laughing Dog Farm, Gill, MA
201) Wholesale Vegetables at a Small
Scale
Caroline Pam, The Kitchen Garden,
LLC, Sunderland, MA
Read
more about the NOFA Summer Conference. We have:
Two keynote speakers; 200+ Workshops; 100+ Exhibitors and Vendors; a Children's
Conference, a Teen Conference, Saturday Country
Fair, Live Entertainment, Teacup Raffle, an ALL-LOCAL dinner. Stay on campus in
the dorms or camp in a tent under the stars.
www.nofasummerconference.org
