Category Archives: Conferences
4th national women in sustainable agriculture conference– call for workshop proposals
Greetings Greenhorns!!
As a leader in the national young farmer movement, I wanted to take a moment of your time to invite you to submit a proposal to present at the 4th National Women in Sustainable Ag Conference: Cultivating Our Food, Farms and Future. The conference will be held November 6-8, 2013 in Des Moines, IA, hosted by the Women, Food & Agriculture Network. Presentations are invited in the following tracks:
- Cultivating our Food/Fiber (production-related topics);
- Cultivating our Farms (management, human relations and farm transfer topics); and
- Cultivating our Future (leadership, network development and policy topics).
We are looking for for proposals from farmers, educators, activists and agricultural professionals involved in sustainable agriculture. Women engaged developing healthy, locally based food systems are our target audience.
We anticipate offering a variety of learning opportunities including workshops, discussion panels, and round table sessions. Participatory formats are always encouraged.
Break our your creativity and share your wisdom! Please share with your contacts!
Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2013. To submit a proposals go to http://www.wfan.org/2013_national_conf_proposal_form.html. For more information on the conference and submissions visit http://www.wfan.org/2013_National_Conference.html
Hope to see you in November!
allied media conference
AMC2013: Media Strategies for a More Just & Creative World
15th annual ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE
JUNE 20 – JUNE 23, 2013 • DETROIT, MI
The Allied Media Conference is a laboratory for creativity and media-based solutions. Held every summer in Detroit, the AMC unites the worlds of media and communications, technology, education and social justice. From this unique intersection, some of the most innovative community organizing models emerge each year. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round. This is a conference that works for people at all levels in an organization or campaign. Everyone learns new information and new ways to teach. So start organizing your community to get to the AMC. We are ready to create, connect and transform.
BE A PART OF IT AT amc.alliedmedia.org
upcoming conference on ecological economics
The U.S. Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) will hold its 2013 Conference on June 9-12 at the University of Vermont (UVM) in Burlington, Vermont hosted by the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. Our 7th meeting is organized around the theme of “Building Local, Scaling Global: Implementing Solutions for Sustainability” and will aim to research and catalog sustainability lessons learned at local, regional, and state levels and identifying solutions that can be scaled up … and what better place to connect local action to global problems than Vermont.
In the spirit of “getting on with sustainability already”, this year’s meeting will be organized around an emerging optimism that local solutions are bubbling up everywhere, and 2013 is the year to synergize and strategize. Proposals for paper, panel, poster, and workshop submissions are currently welcome, especially as they relate to the conference themes.
Please visit the Call for Papers page to submit your presentation ideas using our online form. Abstracts are due by February 15, 2013. For questions, please contact conference organizers at ussee13@uvm.edu or call UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at (802) 656-1353. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee, chaired by John Gowdy, former president of both the USSEE and ISEE. The Organizing Committee encourages you to spread the word about USSEE 2013, and we look forward to seeing you in Vermont this June!
women in sustainable agriculture conference, call for proposals
The 4th National Women in Sustainable Ag Conference: Cultivating Our Food, Farms and Future will be held November 6-8, 2013 in Des Moines, IA, hosted by the Women, Food & Agriculture Network.
Presentations are invited in the following tracks:
- Cultivating our Food/Fiber (production-related topics);
- Cultivating our Farms (management, human relations and farm transfer topics); and
- Cultivating our Future (leadership, network development and policy topics).
We are looking for for proposals from farmers, educators, activists and agricultural professionals involved in sustainable agriculture. Women engaged developing healthy, locally based food systems are our target audience.
We anticipate offering a variety of learning opportunities including workshops, discussion panels, and round table sessions. Participatory formats are always encouraged.
Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2013. To submit a proposals go to http://www.wfan.org/2013_national_conf_proposal_form.html. For more information on the conference and submissions visit http://www.wfan.org/2013_National_Conference.html
local living festival, april 27
greenhorns will be there!
when: April 27, 2013 (all day)
where: Canton, NY 13617
Theme Tracks we are working on, for your enjoyment – click here.
Click here for more info about the 2013 festival!
2013 farm to market connection
Severine will be on a panel discussing “Supporting Beginning Farmers in the Catskills & Beyond”
Register Now for the 2013 Farm to Market Connection!
Join us for a day of networking and education about the most current topics in marketing. Gather with local food advocates from across the region including farmers, retailers, restaurateurs, specialty food producers, distributors, farmers’ market staff and economic development practitioners. The Farm to Market Connection is the perfect way to get the growing season off to the right start!
Dozens of past attendees have told us about lasting business connections they have made as a result of attending. Buyers of all scales will be present from local retailers to regional distributors. Educational topics will suit the interest of vegetable, livestock and dairy producers.
Full program HERE
this weekend! national farmers union convention
New England is hosting the 111th Anniversary National Farmers Union Convention March 2-5, 2013, at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass. Producers from across the country will gather to set the policy priorities for 2013. Join them so your needs are heard and advocated for by one of the oldest agricultural organizations in the country!The conference theme is Making Waves In Agriculture. USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, who hails from western Massachusetts, will deliver the keynote address. Panels will tackle international agriculture, conservation compliance, farm safety, women in agriculture and scaling up to meet demand. Check out the agenda.
+ On Monday night, there’s a Beginning Farmer Mixer! There’ll be talk about what sort of policy change will encourage the development of new, sustainable farm businesses, and also some good old fashioned shit-shooting. It will be a great way to meet young and beginning farmers from all over the country.
spring conference in WI
The Community Initiatives in Sustainable Agriculture Conference (CISA) will take place April 5-7, 2013 at Lawrence University and Riverview Gardens in Appleton, WI.
Our mission is to provide the necessary community, resources, and experience to establish and support new farmers. We will provide a venue for young people to engage in conversations and educational activities. Featuring farmer panels, workshops, open space discussions, local food dinner and dance, and more! For more information and to register, please visit http://communityfarmincubator.org/gather.
register now! national farmers union convention
New England is hosting the 111th Anniversary National Farmers Union Convention March 2-5, 2013, at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass. Producers from across the country will gather to set the policy priorities for 2013. Please join us so that New England’s voice can be heard!
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has demonstrated its support of New England producers through its advocacy for farm bill programs that reward conservation, beginning farmers, organic production, dairy reform, and more. Let’s welcome NFU to our great region, and keep the interests of New England’s producers at the forefront of the national agricultural policy agenda.
The conference theme is Making Waves In Agriculture. USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, who hails from western Massachusetts, will deliver the keynote address. Panels will tackle international agriculture, conservation compliance, farm safety, women in agriculture and scaling up to meet demand. Check out the agenda.
With your participation, New England will indeed make waves in agriculture this year. Please register so we know you’re coming!
amazing group! ag historians…
Registration for the 2013 Agricultural History Society‘s Annual Conference is now open.
- Keynote address by Dr. James Scott, Yale University
- More than 50 panels with nearly 200 scholars scheduled to participate
register soon. After April 6, registration rates will increase.
register now! for 2013 maine grain conference
2013 Maine Grain Conference / Commercial Production for New Small Grain Markets: Food, Organic Feed, and Seed
WHEN: Friday, March 1st, 2013
WHERE: Spectacular Events Center, Bangor (395 Griffin Rd., near the airport)
- Market Overview and Resources for Small Grain Farmers
- Converting a Potato Farm to Organic Grains – Markets, Infrastructure, Rotations, Production, and Processing
- Producing Food Quality Grains – Rotation, Fertility, and Disease
- Managing Problem Weeds in Organic Grains
- Seed Laws and Certification
- Sourcing and Producing Quality Seed
- See attached Agenda for more details on Speakers and Topics
Pre-registration is required - $15 includes morning snack and lunch. To register online visit: http://umaine.edu/agriculture/2013-maine-grain-workshop/
1 pesticide credit and 6 CCA will be available.
To register by phone and pay by check call Meghan Dill, (207) 581-3878. Other questions call Ellen Mallory, UMaine Cooperative Extension, 207-581-2942.
women caring for the land is an important series: nebraska, iowa
to support women landowners making good decisions about stewardship.
Check out the series, particularly if you know a woman landowner who could use a sustainably minded posse.
Join us at an
upcoming WFAN event!
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Women Caring for the LandSM Meeting: Risk Management
8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
United Methodist Church
509 4th St.
Silver Creek, NE
young farmers @ georgia organics conference
3rd Annual GO Conference Farmer Mixer
Kick off the conference on the Thursday night prior with another awesome mixer, this year hosted by our very own Alliance and the generous Chef Shaun Doty at his Bantam + Biddy chicken joint. We’ve got the patio to ourselves for our shindig, and B+B will be donating chicken-y and veggie snacks. There’s no cost to attend, cash bar, and you won’t want to miss it.
Thursday Feb 21, 8-11pm
Bantam + Biddy
1544 Piedmont Road, Suite 301 in the Ansley Mall Shopping Center
RSVP on our Facebook event page here
Farmer Storytelling Photo Project
As part of our goal to tell the stories of young & beginning farmers in the southeast loud and clear, we’ve dreamed up a multimedia project to gather and project YOUR thoughts and words. Friday evening during the Conference Expo, we’ll have a photo booth set up to snap your pretty mug and listen to your tall tales — that time you shot yourself with the nail gun while finishing the mobile chicken coop, the very first exuberant sale you made at your very first farmer’s market, how you got your mini loan, why you chose the crops you did and which ones the flea beetles eat…we want to hear it all. Continue Reading →
washington women in ag conference
February 23, 2013Women in Agriculture
A conference to learn, network and share your knowledge about farming.
The 2013 Women in Agriculture Conference will broadcast engaging speakers to several locations throughout the state. This localized format of the conference is designed so women producers can benefit from a statewide conference while still meeting their on-farm duties at home.
