Tag: NOFA Summer Conference

  • Friday, August 9 – Sunday, August 11 – NOFA Summer Conference: Nutrition Matters

    Even as Hampshire College is going through a tumultuous period, their summer schedule is business as usual. We at the Northeast Organic Farming Association are grateful that they are sticking it out even while things are rocky and we have constant communication with them as they manage their way forward. We hope they find a solution to their woes that gives them long term stability and allows their cutting edge culture of creativity to continue to thrive.

    We are excited to host our 45th annual NOFA Summer Conference with keynote speaker Sandor Katz for a festive summer weekend August 9 -11, 2019 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Always a family friendly event, you can bring the whole family to enjoy workshops for adults, kids and teens, over 60 vendors, live music, games and amazing food!

    Registration is now open and we hope you’ll join us this summer! Registration and complete schedule can be found at www.nofasummerconference.org.

  • Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13 – NOFA Summer Conference

    NOFA is grateful to have Dr. Don Huber and Michael Phillips as 2017’s keynote speakers at the NOFA Summer Conference, to be held August 11 – 13 at Hampshire College in Amherst. We are also excited to host an amazing collection of organic minded professionals that will enliven our potential to create robust, healthy food systems that provide real food for all. Our three-day conference offers a wide-range of seminars, workshops and other educational opportunities. Immerse yourself in a community of like-minded practitioners and curious learners eager to share inspiration and ideas for organic food, farming, health, activism, and beyond.

    From generations of past cultures that established the sustainable production systems upon which we base our modernized techniques, to our immediate relationship with neighbors and the global community of conscious minded producers and consumers, to the microbial life that supports our bodies and our environment, we exist within a vast web of interconnectedness.

    Simply put, we are better together. We are stronger together. Inseparable, in fact, from each other and the systems that support our lives and our food. If we work to ensure a harmonious relationship with ecological and social systems, we can cultivate fair and thriving production and consumer models to live within.

    Join us to build upon this interconnectedness – from microbial to human communities – on August 11-13! Registration prices range from $70 – $250. Check all the options and register at http://nofasummerconference.org/

  • Friday, August 14 – Sunday, August 16 – NOFA Summer Conference

    The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference takes place August 14-16, 2015 at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts.  This year’s main conference features 144 individual sessions with 27 different topic areas. Workshops address organic farming, gardening, land care, draft animals, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, food politics, activism, and more. The theme for this year’s Conference is “Healing the Climate, Healing Ourselves: Regeneration through Microbiology”.

    This year, among the five pre-conference intensives will be an all-day seminar on Friday, August 14, given by Natasha Campbell-McBride, on the healing potential of food for overcoming chronic illness. She will also give the first keynote on Friday night.

    Our second keynoter, Ronnie Cummins will speak Saturday night on “Reversing Global Warming & Rural Poverty through Regenerative Organics”.

    Each year, we offer educational and fun workshops designed for kids and teens where children bond with others throughout the Northeast while parents attend workshops and the plenaries.

    This is an event for the whole family: Music, dance, films, games, animal rides, and meet-ups. Modest registration, inexpensive dorm rooms, camping and delicious, wholesome organic meals.  For complete details, visit http://nofasummerconference.org/index.php.

  • Friday, August 9 – Sunday, August 11 – NOFA 39th Annual Summer Conference

    Join the Northeast Organic Farming Association at its 39th Annual Summer Conference August 9 – 11 at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  This is the one stop place for information about NOFA, with over two hundred workshops on organic farming, gardening, land care, draft animals, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, food politics, activism, and much more.  Two keynote speeches to highlight:  On Friday, August 9 at 7:30 Atina Diffley, organic farmer, consultant, activist and author of her 2012 memoir Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works, will speak. Her advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she has been a leader in the struggle to stop the notorious polluters, Koch Industries from building an oil pipeline over her land and throughout the state of Minnesota. Then, on Saturday, August 10 at 7 pm, attend a debate entitled Is Organic Certification Right for You? Increasingly, young people are going into local farming without getting certified organic. Is “local” supplanting “organic”? Is this a good thing? Is there a special enduring value to organic certification? Has it strayed from its original goals? Two active certified farmers, and two uncertified farmers who use organic methods, will debate the question: “Is organic certification right for you?”  Pro: Atina Diffley & Ryan Voiland;  Con: Justine Denison & Mark Dunau; Moderator: Jack Kittredge.  Learn more and register on line at www.nofasummerconference.org.

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