Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference

Last chance to register for the 2024 Nebraska Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference!

Registration closes at 12PM CST January 17th 2024!

Register using this link:
https://www.sustainablenebraska.org/2024-conference-local-foods-healthy-farms

Hey everyone! Just a friendly reminder that our conference registration closes this Wednesday, January 17 at noon! Don't miss out on the chance to be part of an incredible event with a stellar lineup of speakers, spectacular local food menus, and priceless opportunities to connect with both old and new friends. Secure your spot now and join us for an unforgettable experience!
https://www.sustainablenebraska.org/2024-conference-local-foods-healthy-farms

Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference With over 40 years of experience the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society partnered with Nebraska Extension is Excited to bring you the 2024 Local Food and Healthy Farm Conference.

Join Leah Keinama to learn more about how, for over a decade, No More Empty Pots has worked to empower and build greater self-sufficiency in the communities served through community education, entrepreneurial support, and our Culinary Certificate Program. With the recent opening of the new No More Empty Pots location, they will provide even more robust services with the opening of their greenhouse, science lab, market, classroom, kitchen, and processing facility.

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Don't forget to stick around for our capnote speakers!
Gary Lesoing will provide his retrospective on the sustainable agriculture movement. Where he started and where he sees the future opportunities.

Join Dr. Sanderson in his talk Regenerative Ag - Why?

Dr. Matthew Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work and Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Kansas State University. As a social scientist, he has worked most recently on groundwater management at multiple scales, from the community level to the global scale; how social networks shape participation in group decision-making within common pool resource settings; how social factors affect adoption of irrigation technologies; and how culture influences perceptions of the science, knowledge, and information used to make decisions about agricultural adaptations.

Dr. Sanderson has been a Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Center for Environmental Resource Management at the University of Texas-El Paso and the Hugo Centre for Population Research at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Agriculture and Human Values, the leading international journal for critical and interdisciplinary research on agriculture and food systems.

His research has been recognized with the Excellence in Scholarship Award from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, the Leslie Hewes Award for best Social Science Paper in Great Plains Research, the Best Article Award from the World Congress of Sociology and the International Sociological Association, the Karen Ann Griffith Award from Kansas State University, and the Samuel Cohn Distinguished Service Award from the Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociological Association. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Australian Research Council.

Dr. Sanderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Economics and a Master of Arts degree in Sociology from Kansas State University. He earned his Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Utah. He is a Kansan by birth and by choice. A fifth-generation Kansan, he returned home in 2011 to take a position at KSU, his alma mater.

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Today we are happy to introduce one of our returning sponsors to the Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference.

Grain Place Foods provides ecologically sustainable grain products that benefit the long-term health of their clients and our planet because how food is produced does matter!
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SARE Farmer's Forums are an opportunity for farmers to share their insights directly from their fields and field of study! Don't miss these insightful sessions and register today for the 2024 Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference by visiting https://www.sustainablenebraska.org/2024-conference-local-foods-healthy-farms

This panel moderated by Charles Francis will discuss why we need to learn from the past, but spend most energy preparing and moving toward a sustainable future for producing, marketing, and consuming food. Along with climate change and world peace, this is the most compelling issue humanity faces for the rest of this Century. Brief presentations by four farmers/others [5 minutes each] on the topic of “ The Future of Sustainable Agriculture” followed by roundtable discussions.

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Join Justin Evertson to learn about Mixed Use Windbreaks.

Windbreaks are quite valuable in softening the harsh climate of the windy Great Plains. However, they can offer so much more than just shelter. This presentation will highlight some of the tree and shrub species along with design and management strategies that can help turn a common windbreak into a more resilient, useful and wildlife-friendly landscape. And we’ll take a look at the growing concern of herbicide damage to windbreaks across the region.

Attend this session and more at the 2024 conference!
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Join Dr. Tom Tomas to learn the fundamentals of organic gardening for the backyard and homestead. Whether you have a community garden plot or a few acres the practices covered in this session can help you with sustainable yields year after year!

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Join Sandro Lopez to discuss his journey, to applying indigenous agriculture practices, in "Designing a Rainforest Urban Garden Model". This session and more can be found at the 2024 Local Food and Healthy Farms Conference.

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Join Jeff Cassler of Good Taste Farms for his session: An Amateurs' 12 Year Journey to Permaculture on a Eight Acre Produce Farm.

A retrospective look of learned practices that developed over 12 years of building a permaculture farm. Jeff will share his motivations, insights, successes and failures in creation of his farm.



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