2022 Conference Schedule - nofany.org

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Special Event Farmer of the Year Keynote Address Zaid Kurdieh

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Opening Ceremony Mandana Boushee and Amanda David

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST NOFA-NY Visit the Virtual Marketplace Conference Sponsors and Exhibitors

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST NOFA-NY Lunch Meetups NOFA-NY Staff and Board

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Business + Marketing Business Basics for Organic Farmers Chris Laughton

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Certification Intro to Organic Certification Jessica Terry

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Urban Farming Farming in the City: Laying the Groundwork Caitlin Tucker

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Business + Marketing Investing in Abundance Shannon Hayes

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Vegetable Winter Production and Season Extension Erin Enouen and Aaron Munzer

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Urban Farming Overview of the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP)

Joseph Heller

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Policy How Should Organic Grow? Liana Hoodes and Patty Lovera

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST Certification Organic Transition Panel Patty Gentry, Ryan Lertora and Jonathan Skaro

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST Business + Marketing No-Till Market Gardening Jesse Frost

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST BIPOC Culturally-Relevant Farming Brandon Ruiz

2022 Conference Schedule

Live Spanish Interpretation

Wednesday, January 19, 2022


10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Livestock Raising Certified Organic Poultry Profitably Lawrence Flick and Karma Glos

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Fruit Growing, Maintaining, and Marketing a Successful Organic U-Pick Berry Operation

Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Dairy + Field Crop The Rye Market: Prospects and Potential Henry Blair, Avery Robinson, and June Russell

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Open Hours Mandana Boushee and Amanda David



2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Business + Marketing CSA is a SNAP Michelle Hughes and Hannah Williams

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Vegetable Success with Long-Season Brassicas Dan Kent and Fred Lee

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST Value-Added Intensive Food Product Development, Safety, and Regulatory Compliance

Shannon Prozeller and Cynthia James

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST BIPOC “Un-Beigeing” Agriculture: Small Farm Lessons on Reclaiming BIPOC Land Stewardship

Rafael Aponte

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Policy Regional Collaboration for Regenerative Organic Agriculture

Marty Dagoberto and Maddie Kempner

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Business + Marketing Making a Multi-Farm CSA Work for the Long Term

Chaw Chang, Lucy Garrison, and Nathaniel Thompson

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST Value-Added Bioregional Textile Development and the Carbon Farm Network

Gibson Durnford and Laura Sansone

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST Urban Farming Agricultural Education for the Deaf New American Community

Jacob Gigler-Caro and Jay Regmi

6:00 PM - 7:15 pm EST Dairy + Field Crop Organic Dairy Updates and Discussion NOFA-NY Staff

Thursday, January 20, 2022


10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Value-Added Intro to Natural Dye Plants Sarah Gotowka

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Cannabis Industrial Hemp: Lessons Learned from the First Five Years

Heather Darby and Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Livestock Logistics of Large- and Small-Scale Meat Processing from On-Farm to USDA Certification

Jim Eklund and Nate Henderson

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Business + Marketing Networking for the Future: Catastrophe Can Lead to Opportunity

Mark Pawliw




2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Vegetable Thriving on No-Till Vegetable Farms: Two Perspectives

Matt Herbruck and Daniel Mays

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Certification Handling / Processing / Distributor Certification

Rebecca Heller-Steinberg and Ashleigh Knecht

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST Business + Marketing Intensive

How we are Bringing Food to Underserved Communities

Elizabeth Vivianna Karabinakis, Amy Klein, and Kate Miller-Corcoran

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Dairy + Field Crop Feeding Seaweed to Organic Dairy Cows: Opportunities and Challenges

Andre Brito

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST BIPOC Urban Herbalism: Weaving a Resilient Community

Antonia Estela Pérez

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Policy From Disparity to Parity: An Emergency Mobilization to Address Economic Inequities and Reverse our March Toward Catastrophic Climate Change

Ben Burkett, Jim Goodman, and Elizabeth Henderson

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Urban Farming Urban Farms: Growing More Than Vegetables

Matt Kauffman, Sarah Mast, Bethany Ortquist, and Katie Pfohl

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Gardening + Homesteading Diversity is Resilience: Designing Biodiverse Landscapes to Support Wild Pollinators

Evan Abramson

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Fruit Cider, Farming, Collaboration, and Reparations

Deva Maas, Melissa Madden, Travis Mammedaty Christa Núñez, Eric Shatt, Ezra Sherman, and Autumn Stoscheck

Friday, January 21, 2022


10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Cannabis The Regenerative Hemp Entrepreneur Doug Fine

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Livestock Finding a Niche Market for your Meat Courtney Grimes-Sutton and Samer Saleh

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Policy Raising Up and Inspiring the Next Generation of Farmers

Christine Hutchinson and Christa Núñez




2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Certification Organic Hemp Certification and Policy Update

Kristen Barker and Lauren Tonti

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Gardening + Homesteading A Tick-ing Time Bomb: How do we Manage for Tick Borne Disease?

Joshua Ginsberg

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Vegetable Intensive Beginning Farmer Intensive, Session 1: Managing Fertility and Water on an Organic Farm

Steve Reiners and Zoe Stapp

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Vegetable Intensive Beginning Farmer Intensive, Session 2: Keys to Success in Disease Management and a Farm Start-Up Case Study

Laura Colligan and Meg McGrath

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Soil Health Establishing Ecosystem Service Payments to Farmers

Wes Gillingham, Ken Jaffe, Jeff Potent, Phoebe Schreiner, and Carlos Valery Jr.

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Fruit Impending Resilience: Why Biodynamics is the Next Logical Step for Organic Farming

Mike Biltonen

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST BIPOC Remembering: Learning and Teaching from the Land, Small Regenerative Systems, and Collaborations to Reach Youth

Lala Montoya Heredia

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Gardening + Homesteading Keeping Your Flock Healthy Kristin White

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Urban Farming Bringing Urban Soils Back to Life Mayda Pozantides

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Gardening + Homesteading Caribbean Herbal Medicine Brandon Ruiz

Saturday, January 22, 2022


10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Soil Health Life in the Soil Monique Bosch

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Dairy + Field Crop Producing High-Quality Forages for Grass Fed Dairy (and Beef)

Rod Porter

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Business + Marketing How do you Know your Pricing is Right? Robert Hadad

10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST Seed Event 2023 Seed Conference Planning Brunch Heron Breen




1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST Seed Event Seed Community Share Heron Breen

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Cannabis Intro to Adult Use Cannabis in New York Allan Gandelman and Jen Metzger

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST BIPOC The Meat Rabbit Miracle Natalia Rathbun

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Business + Marketing Taking Our Labor Policies from Legal to Fair Jody Bolluyt and Elizabeth Henderson

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Policy Winning the Right to Healthcare in New York

Ursula Rozum

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Soil Health Tree Fodder for Livestock Health and Carbon Sequestration

Steve Gabriel

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST Special Event Virtual Witness to Injustice Residents of the Onondaga Nation and members of Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON)

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm EST Special Event Handmade Pasta Class Chef Andrea Belfiore

Sunday, January 23, 2022


10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Value-Added How to Create and Operate a Successful On-Farm Airbnb

Matt Baumgarther and Robert Maddox

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Gardening + Homesteading Steps to Creating a Self-Sustaining Apiary Bill Day

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Dairy + Field Crop Considerations for Starting a Small-Scale Dairy or Creamery

Gianaclis Caldwell

10:00 am - 11:15 am EST Vegetable Fertile Vegetables Without Livestock Iain Tolhurst

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Closing Ceremony Mandana Boushee and Amanda David



2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Vegetable Considering On-farm Wildness: Service Provider or Spiritual Underpinning

Anne Bloomfield, Claudia Knab-Vispo, and Conrad Vispo

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST BIPOC Indigo Workshop Sarah Gotowka

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm EST Dairy + Field Crop Leveraging Technology to Improve Grazing Systems

Sarah Ficken and Robert Perry

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Dairy + Field Crop Growing Cereal Rye in the Northeast Heather Darby, Todd Hardie, and Sandy Syberg

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Livestock On-Farm Diesel from Animal Fats Dillon Klepetar

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm EST Policy Organic as a Solution to Climate Change in NYS Policy

Wes Gillingham

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