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
Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)
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
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 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
Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)
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
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Open Hours 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 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
Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)
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
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Open Hours 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 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
Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)
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
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST BIPOC Space Open Hours 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
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
Time Track Workshop Title Presenter(s)
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
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 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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