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 SPEAKER

MONDAY

ROSEBUD BEAR SCHNEIDER

Rosebud is the co-director of Education and Engagement at Keep Growing Detroit, a non-profit urban farm with the mission to cultivate a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed by Detroiters are grown by residents within the city’s limits. In addition to this work, Rosebud organizes with the Detroit Indigenous Peoples Alliance where they aim to connect the Detroit Indigenous community with opportunities to connect and practice our cultural and land-based ways, including The Waawiiyatanong Sugarbush Project, Mnoomin harvesting, fishing and hunting camps. 

FARM TOURS

SUNDAY

Farm tours are what make a growing season conference so impactful. We’re offering multiple options to choose from on Sunday. Transportation from downtown Bellaire and lunch will be provided. Tours must be booked in advance during registration.

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS

MONDAY SESSIONS

  • New Hands, Old Ways: Growing With Kids

    WENDY BELL

  • American Chestnuts: the OG Giving Tree

    BEN MCMURRAY

  • Managing Succession and Stress

    REMINGTON RICE + CHRIS BARDENHAGEN

  • Towards a Michigan Food Worker and Farmer Writing and Visual Arts Anthology

    ADAM MONTRI + ABBY PALMER

  • Thinking Like a Forest: Whole Systems Design for Homes, Farms, & Beyond + Growing in a Poly Culture

    LEVI MEEUWENBERG + SCOTT KALLEK

  • Wholesale 101: Roadmap for Becoming Wholesale Ready

    MINDY TAYLOR + AMY MCINTIRE + SARA SMITH

  • The Ins and Outs of Tree and Shrub Propagation

    SCOTT KALLEK

  • Culture, Copywriting, and Ideal Customers

    CLAIRE BUTLER

  • Creating a Vision of Greatness

    ELNIAN GILBERT

TUESDAY SESSIONS

  • How Living Soil Works

    ROBBIN POTT

  • Stewarding Climate Resilient Seeds

    MAGDA NAWROCKA-WEEKES

  • Tools for Small Scale Farms

    DANA HILFINGER

  • Preserving and Caring for Heirloom Apples within the Sleeping Bear Dunes

    NATE WALTON

  • Chickens as Culture Keepers: Raising Birds that Nourish Land, Food, and Community

    CAITLIN MCSWEENEY-STEFFES

  • Organic Seed Production Research on Economics and Yield (OSPREY)

    MICHAEL LORDON

  • Farmer as Catalyst: An Experimental Approach to Farming

    TAYLOR HARTSON

  • Setting Goals and Making a Plan for Your Farm

    KATIE BRANDT

  • Transition to Organic Farmer Roundtable

    MARIEL BORGMAN + A PANEL OF FARMERS