Upcoming Workshops:
Nov 2023, ASCFG annual meeting, St Louis,Weathering the Storm of a Different Kind: People Quitting, Injuries and Other Labor Challenges
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Apr 2023, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) NY, Managing Farm Labor Costs = Crop Costing
Feb 2023, Pennsylvania Veteran Farmers Conference, Keynote Address, Farm Profitability workshop, and Intro to Soils
Feb 2023, Nofa Vermont, Full Day Labor Intensive and When Will this Purchase Pay for Itself
Feb 2023, Full Day Crop Costing and Profitability Workshop with all kinds of growers in Tidewater, VA
Jan 2023, Practical Farmers of Iowa Conf, When Will this Purchase Pay for Itself.
Aug 2022, ASCFG conf in Boston, When is No-Till a Bad Idea, and Too Much of a Good Thing (Overuse of Compost)
February 2022 University of Minnesota Farm Food Safety Training: a good series of workshops.GAPs: Applying ‘Lean Farming’ concepts to your produce farm
Feb 2022 PASA conference,, Don’t Be a Knucklehead: Starting Your Farm Slowly, Part 1 and 2 and Should I Buy This New Equipment or Not
January 11, 2021, Growing Money and Soil, Grey Bruce Farmers Week Conference, CANADA, virtual
January 16, 2021, To Scale or Not to Scale – That is the Question, Future Harvest CASA conference, virtual
Mid February, How Low Can You Go? What’s Your Breakeven Price?, OEFFA conference, virtual
February 22-23, 2020, Healthy Farms, all day workshop, Eco Farm Day, Canadian Organic Growers Conference, Cornwall, ON
February 8, 2020, Managing On-Farm Labor, workshop, Georgia Organics Conference, Athens, GA
February 7, 2020 Choosing Markets and Managing Revenue Streams, half day workshop, Georgia Organics Conference, Athens, GA
January 23, 2020 How to Train and Keep Great Employees, Farm Labor Seminar Series, Connecticut Farm Bureau, Haddam, CT
January 12, 2020 State of the Onion Keynote, VABF Conference, Roanoke, VA
January 11, 2020, Advanced Organic Vegetable Production, Full day workshop, VABF Conference, Roanoke, VA
December 6&7, 2019 Keynote, Making our Farms Healthier, Tennessee Local Food Summit, Nashville, TN
November 18&19, 2019, Market Growers Success Mastermind, Clarksburg, MD
November 1, 2019 Putting Efficiency Improvements into High Gear, CFSA conference, Durham, NC
March 20, 2019 – Keynote, Lean Farming session, Profitability session, American Small Farm Conference, West Plains, MO
March 1-2, 2019 – Increasing Efficiency Using Lean Farm Principles, half day course, Organic Association of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Feb 24, 2019 – Are you losing money with every carrot bunch you sell?, half day course, Dorena, OR contact walt@workhorseworkshops.com
Feb 23, 2019 – workshops on Failure, and Giving Great Customer Service, Oregon Small Farms Conference, Corvalis, OR
Feb 14-16, 2019 – Keynote Address, and two workshops, Texas Organic Growers Conference, Corpus Christi, TX
Feb 11, 2019 – Keynote address, and Lean Farming Tools and Techniques, Mid-South Farm to Table Conference, Memphis, TN
Feb 6, 2019 – Start Your Vegetable Farm, full day intensive, PASA Conference, Lancaster, PA
Jan 19, 2019 – Lean Farming Ideas: What’s All the Buzz About?, SSAWG Conference, Little Rock, AR
Jan 23, 2019 – Growing Farm Profits – 1.5 day workshop, SSAWG Conference, Little Rock, AR
Jan 18, 2019 – Stepping up Your Management Game – Becoming a Better Boss, Future Harvest CASA Conference, College Park, MD
Jan 17, 2019 – Vegetable Production for Advanced Growers , full day intensive, Future Harvest CASA Conference, College Park, Md 9-4
Nov 15-16, 2018 – Lean Farm Program, University of NH Extension, Manchester NH
Nov 9-11, 2018 – Beginning Farmer half-day intensive, Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association; Durham, NC. . Friday Nov 9, 8:30-11:30am
Nov 1, 2018 – Delmarva Soils Summit, Future Harvest CASA, University of Maryland Eastern Shore,
Oct 23 – Nov 13, 2018 – Small Farm Dreams Course, Piedmont Environmental Council, Charlottesville, VA 6-9pm, 4 consecutive Tuesday evenings
Sept 21, 2018 – Farm Business Profitability and the Veggie Compass, Tricycle Urban Ag; Richmond, VA 9am-1pm
May 31, 2017 Soils Course for Growers, Full Day Intensive, Allegheny Mountain Institute, VA
March 28, 2017 Introduction to Veggie Compass and Farm Profitability – Half Day Course, Tricycle Gardens, Richmond, VA
February 25, 2017 Farm Scale Composting, MOSES Conference, La Crosse, WI
February 23, 2017 Practical Route to Healthy Soils and Better Crops, Organic University, with Gary Zimmer, MOSES Conference, La Crosse, WI
February 6 and 7, 2017, The Business of Labor, Portsmith and Lebanon, NH
January 16, 2017, Farming for Profit – Getting your soils right to make money, Cleveland, OH
January 9, 2017 Full Day Soils Intensive, VABF Conference, Hot Springs, Virginia
January 10-11, 2017, Using Labor Wisely, VABF Conference workshop sessions, Hot Springs, Virginia
November 16 and 17, 2016, full day training for agricultural service providers on Growing Farm Profits, San Antonio and Edinburg Texas
January 30, 2016, Does Equipment Pay? with John Hendrickson, and Growing Fall Transplanted Brassicas, SSAWG Annual Conference, Lexington, KY
January 27, 2016, Veggie Compass Training (full day) with Jim Munsch, SSAWG Annual Conference, Lexington, KY
January 14-15, 2016, SHARING MARKETING SECRETS TO SELL MORE SPECIALTY PRODUCE, and A FRESH LOOK AT UNDERSTANDING SOIL, and BALANCING SOILS – THE THREE KEY THINGS THAT BENEFIT YOUR SOIL THE MOST Mid-Ohio Growers Meeting, Dalton, OH
January 7, 2016, Getting More from your Labor, North American Strawberry Growers Conference, Savannah, GA
December 3, 2015, Making Soil Health Come First – Building Your Ground While Staying Profitable in the Vegetable Business, Virginia Farm to Table Conference
November 8, 2015, Coaxing More Profit from Your Farm: Just Because It Sells Doesn’t Mean it’s Profitable!, CFSA Annual Conference, Durham, NC
November 6, 2015, Using the Veggie Compass, CFSA Annual Conference Pre-Conference Intensive (9am-3pm), Durham, NC
October 29, 2015, Is Your Gut Instinct Costing You Money?, Local Food Hub, Charlottesville, VA
February 9, 2015, Soil Fertility for Sustainable Vegetable Production, Farm to Table Conference for Midsouth Producers, Memphis, Tennessee
February 21, 2015, Growing Farm Profits, day and a half training, Jackson, Mississippi,
February 23 & 24, Growing Farm Profits, Day and a half training, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
February 28, 2015, Oregon Small Farms Conference, Farm Profitability 1: Discovering Where The Profits Are On Your Farm (And Where They Are Not)
January 17, 2014, Basic Soil Improvement Techniques for Sustainable Farmers , SSAWG Conference, Mobile, Alabama
January 14-15, 2015, Growing Farm Profits Short Course, SSAWG Conference, Mobile, Alabama
December 4, 2014, A Fresh Look at Understanding Soil, ACRES Conference, Columbus, Ohio, cd available here
December 5, 2014, Managing Your Farm for Profitability, ACRES Conference, Columbus, Ohio, cd available here
October 21, 2014 Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers Annual Conference, Newark, Delaware, Ummm, Growing Flowers is Still Farming! ASCFG Conference
July 10, 2014 Pest Management Workshop, organized by the Local Food Hub, held at Bellair Farm in Albemarle County, VA.
January 18, 2014, SSAWG Conference, Mobile, Alabama, What You Don’t Know About Labor May be Costing You,
January 30, 2014, Managing Your Farm for Profits, Virginia Biological Farming Conference, Richmond, Virginia
February 1, 2014, Growing Farm Profits Workshop, Community Farm Alliance, Lexington, KY, http://communityfarmalliance.org/young-and-beginning-farmers/growing-farm-profits-conference/
February 21, 2014, Georgia Organics Conference, Jeckyl Island, GA, Profits & Enterprise Budgets: How to Work Towards More, http://conference.georgiaorganics.org/in-depth-workshops/