SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS

This year’s conference is packed with incredible sessions, workshops, farm tours, and more.

Explore the details below and plan your experience.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ABRA BERENS

Abra is a chef, former farmer, and cookbook writer. Alongside seasonal recipes, Abra’s cookbooks tell the stories of farmers who grow each featured crop. She is currently the chef at Granor Farm in Three Oaks, MI.

MONDAY

BRIDGET O’BRIEN & DR. CHARLIE BRENNAN

Bridget and Charlie manage Gateway Farm in Plymouth, MI, and are Co-Directors of Garden Juju Collective, where they offer education and consulting on permaculture and more.

TUESDAY

FARM TOURS

Farm tours are what make a summer conference so impactful. We’re offering multiple options to choose from each day of the conference. Transportation will be provided from The Leelanau School. Tours must be booked in advance during registration.

MONDAY AFTERNOON + TUESDAY MORNING

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

MONDAY SESSIONS

  • Farms + Schools - The Logistics of Working with Schools

    BROOKE JUDAY

  • Cultivating Change: How Farmers Sow the Seeds of Social Change

    AMBER HASAN

  • Mindfulness and Preventing Farm Burnout

    NICOLE MEZESKE

  • A Biological Path from Conventional to Ecological Production

    ERIC PAWLOWSKI

  • Whole Farm Planning: Healthcare and Health Insurance

    CHERI BURK

  • From Laws to Farm Stands: Getting to Know Michigan's Right to Farm Act and GAAMPs

    MARY REILLY

  • Annie's Project: Farm Education for Women

    KRISTINE RANGER

  • Summer Interns - Recruiting and Engaging for Seasonal Farming

    SARAH HALLSTEDT

  • Success Strategies for CSA Newsletters: Connect and Engage with Your Community

    CLAIRE BUTLER

  • Building Community into Your Farm

    JOANNEE DEBRUHL

  • Mushroom Log Cultivation for the Northern Hardwoods

    ROBERT KRAEMER

  • Ojibwe Artwork

    SALLY ROOK

TUESDAY SESSIONS

  • First Steps of Farm Food Safety

    BREANNA HANNULA

  • Constructing the Detour: Land-Based Socially Engaged Art

    SARA ALSUM-WASSENAAR

  • Community Land Trusts, Farm Labor, Affordable Housing, Regenterprise, & Land Back?

    TERI VANHALL

  • Communicating with Farmers

    REMINGTON RICE

  • Homestead Apple Culture

    PAUL HOLCROFT

  • Fish Waste Fertilizer Production; Honoring Anishinaabe Tradition

    WILLIAM DEROUIN

  • Ecological Pest Control

    ERIC PAWLOWSKI

  • Farm Safety on the Road

    LAUREL HARDUAR MORANO

  • Permaculture and Design Thinking

    BRIDGET O’BRIEN AND DR. CHARLIE BRENNAN

  • The 'Shroom Collective: Sharing Our Experiences and Data

    TODD GERARDOT

  • Hands, Heart and Soil: A Forest School Approach to Farmer Wellness

    DERRIENNE REESE

  • Getting a Premium Price for Organics

    MARIEL BORGMAN

  • Wellness Tea Ceremony with Light of Day Tea Farm

    ANGELA MACKE

  • Creating Flower Essences for Emotional Healing

    NAOMI CALL

  • Tourists Want to Spend Money. Help Them Do It, On the Farm

    PARKER JONES

  • Integrating Agroforestry Practices on Your Farm

    SHANNON BRINES

  • Cultivating Perennial Herb and Flower Crops on Your Farm

    PATTI TRAVIOLI

  • Farms + Schools - How Schools Cement the Use of Local Product

    CORI FITZPATRICK

  • Farms + Schools - Ways That Farmers Can Build Relationships with Schools as Markets

    JEN SCHAAP

  • Beginning Farms, Farming in Two Markets

    JASMINE HAIRSTON

  • How to Grow a Hoophouse

    NIC WELTY

  • Getting Local Food to Food Pantries to Increase Food Access

    CHRISTINA BARKEL

  • Alternative Financing

    ANNIE OLDS