I am a well-known dynamic speaker. My down-to-earth style makes complicated topics accessible to all kinds of learners. I am passionate about food, farming, and biological agriculture and convey that energy through my presentations. Audiences enjoy the stories and vast farming experience I share in my talks.

 

Workshop Topics

One to Two Hour Presentations

Soils 101 for Growers

Production for Profit: Soil Management, Fertility and Rotations

Farm Scale Composting

How Do You Compare? Using Benchmarks to Measure Your Farms Success

Farm Marketing – Finding Your Place in The Market

Making Your CSA Thrive in Increasingly Competitive Times

Coaxing More Profit from Your Farm: Just Because It Sells Doesn’t Mean it’s Profitable!

Where the Money Gets Spent – How to Manage Labor for Profit and Pleasure

Increasing Efficiency Using Lean Techniques

Real Life Business Decisions to Increase Profits

 

Multi Hour Workshops

Advanced Organic Vegetable Production (one day intensive)

Profits: How to Work Towards More

The 5 Rules for Soil Health – Diving into Soils: Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Pulling it all Together

 

Multi Day Workshops

Growing Farm Profits – Whole Farm Profit Management

Advanced Organic Vegetable Production


Past Venues

Acres USA

MOSES – Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service

Oregon Tilth Conference

Virginia Association for Biological Farming

Mid Ohio Growers Meeting

University of NH Extension

Allegheny Mountain Institute

Tricycle Gardens Urban Agriculture Fellowship Program

Future Harvest : Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

Tennessee Organic Growers Association

Oklahoma-Arkansas Horticulture Show

OLLI – Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at GMU

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