Sunday Workshops Sessions

Gardeners will learn about designing landscapes with habitat and food for wildlife.

Howard will share a detailed pictorial and descriptive tour of Cuba’s agroecological farms.

Sharing insight and advice from a team of chefs and farmers, this session will outline how producers can adopt technology on their farms, boats, and at their workshops to help sell product before harvest, cultivation, or even a seed is planted.

Preserving your herbs in honey has many benefits! Honey is a delicious, locally available resource with an endless shelf life, and it effectively extracts a wide range of medicinal constituents.

New research is proving that natural animal fats do not cause heart disease or other chronic conditions.

Learn key concepts necessary for making delicious lacto-fermented vegetables at home.

What are hybrids and why do they cost so much?

Four Winds Farm has been no-till since 1995, utilizing permanent beds and system of weed control with generous applications of compost.

This tour will include a basic tour of Simple Gifts Farm, with a focus on the systems we use to control weeds and to cut down on hand work in the fields.

How do we use farming as a way of teaching and learning the fundamentals of ecology, religion and spirituality

Intensive silvopastures use densely-planted woody fodder shrubs in combination with pasture and full-sized trees to increase productivity and biodiversity

Learn methods for intensively growing vegetable crops without disturbing the soil through tillage or cultivation.

The ASPCA and The Humane Society of the United States will discuss how national animal welfare groups are advocating for, supporting, and collaborating with humane farmers.

Attendees will learn an array of surplus management techniques, ranging from grassroots gleaning to large-scale accumulating and processing, as modeled by Salvation Farms.

Symbiosis in nature created healthy landscapes providing fresh water and rich soils for human communities. Indigenous peoples have protected many of these biodiverse lands and are working to restore others. We will explore actions of the First Nations in Canada, herding tribes in Africa, and salmon stream restoration in the USA. Jim Laurie: Restoration Biologist... Read More

Community Harvest Project is a non-profit farm that relies heavily on volunteer groups.

This tour will detail the improvements that Simple Gifts Farm has made to its washroom infrastructure and workflow over the past year.

Raising multiple species of livestock on pasture is truly an asset to a farm, from renovating and rotovating land to building organic matter and soil biology.

Tour the UMass Student Farm, which manages 9 acres of certified organic land on the campus of UMass Amherst.

Over the past two or three years global warming has begun to accelerate markedly and climate scientists have underestimated the scope of anthropogenic climate change.

Rich will walk you through how urban growers can compost on various scales.

Many people are excited to learn about edible wild mushrooms; there are so many delicious varieties!

In the first part of this two-part tour of Natural Roots Farm, we’ll demonstrate how we run our CSA, relying exclusively on horsepower.

In 1998, Four Winds Farm started selling seedlings to gardeners.

This upbeat and active workshop teaches how to care for your most important tool... your body!

Northeast nut trees provide food, forage, lumber and a host of other goodies.

Learn methods for intensively growing vegetable crops without disturbing the soil through tillage or cultivation.

David and Pam will share their planning and construction of their new pasture coop for 80 birds.

Learn about the herbs that nourish, take care of common problems and prepare our bodies for birth.

Learn to assess your health using a combination of modern biology and Oriental medicine’s use of visual bodily cues to reveal the health of your organs, glands and metabolism.

Brittany will review the skills and competencies that farmers need to succeed, and will help you draft your own farm’s learning plan.

Learn how to extend your gardening season inexpensively and efficiently.

Emerging science demonstrates the power of biology to draw carbon into soils

Cover cropping is an indispensable tool for maintaining and building healthy soil.