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Free Food and Farming Webinars – Fall 2020

An on-line Speaker Series featuring innovative thinkers (and doers!) in the food and farm economy.  The Second Sunday of the month, October – December, 2020. Free Food and Farming Webinars!

Soil Sisters: How Women are Changing the Food System

Featuring:  Lisa Kivirist with Dulce Morales, FL Morris, Beth Osmund
Sunday, October 11 at 1 p.m. via Zoom | Free but registration required

What’s the key ingredient to healthy communities? Women leading food system change. Women make up one of the fastest-growing segments of new farmers today, and they come from a long and deep history and tradition of cultivating the soil. This fresh crop of women farmers is finding innovative ways to champion local agriculture and foster greater collaboration and cooperation. Collectively, they improve the health of our environment, stimulate the economy, build a greater sense of community, and nurture a more vibrant food system. Come hear the historic roots and inspiring stories of women farmers today — and in the future.

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Whole Grain Supply Chain

Featuring:  Erin Meyer with Rachel Bernier-Green, Andy Hazzard
Sunday, November 15 at 1 p.m. via Zoom | Free but registration required

The local supply chain, that is. You may have noticed that flour was in short supply at the beginning of the pandemic. This, along with increased interest in personal health and the local economy, meant many who were baking at home turned to local, small scale producers to fill the gap.

Join moderator Erin Meyer of Basil’s Harvest as she sets the stage for a baker, farmer, and food-system dietitian to discuss their personal experiences working with and growing specific grains, and explore the challenges they face doing so. Plus, you’ll hear details of how each business needed to shift, due to the pandemic and about their combined work with the Artisan Grain Collaborative. You’ll come away with a better understanding of the important relationship between farmer and baker, and about how the practices around regenerative agriculture and whole grains can improve soil health, human health, and impact local economies.

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Regenerative Agriculture: Details of a Profitable Journey

Featuring: Gabe Brown
Sunday, December 13 at 1 p.m. via Zoom | Free but registration required

Nationally recognized North Dakota farmer and rancher Gabe Brown stands at the forefront of the regenerative agriculture movement. He is perhaps best known for popularizing the concept of cover crop cocktails as a key strategy for jumpstarting soil health and nourishing soil biology.

Gabe will share the story of he, along with his family, took a broken, degraded, and unprofitable farm and regenerated it into a healthy, profitable farm teeming with life.  He learned that healthy ecosystems follow six consistent principles and that those principles are the same for farms, ranches, and gardens. Understanding how to work with these principles, instead of against them, not only leads to healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy animals, and healthier people but higher profits as well.

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