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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