Farm To Table Conferences, Workshops, and Trainings
New Mexico Organic Farming Conference February 19-20, 2010
Post Date: Monday, November 30th, 2009
CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION.
It’s time for New Mexico’s premier organic farming conference! This year’s conference will be held at the Marriott Pyramid North in Albuquerque on Friday and Saturday February 19th and 20th, 2010. The event includes:
- Welcome by Dr. Miley Gonzalez, Secretary of the NM Department of Agriculture
- Keynote by US Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Kathleen Merrigan (invited)
- Delicious organic meal and snacks with a focus on locally produced items
- Over 30 sessions on crops, livestock, weed and pest management, market gardening, and farm support. Sessions are taught by experienced organic producers and experts in the field. Get all the details by downloading the CONFERENCE PROGRAM.
Registration for the conference is now open. Click here to register online. Or, if you want to pay by check, click here to download the registration form. Print the form, make the check payable to Farm to Table and send your check and completed registration form to:
Le Adams
Farm to Table
618 B Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
The New Mexico Organic Farming Conference is organized by Farm to Table, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, NMSU Cooperative Extension Service, and the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission. Conference sponsors include: La Montanita Coop, Los Poblanos Organics, NMDA, the Silver City Food Co-op, Acres USA and Sparrow Hawk Farm.
For more information contact Le Adams at 505-473-1004 x 10 or Joanie Quinn at 505.841-9067.
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Scaling Up Workshops: How to grow more, sell more and make more
Post Date: Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Consumer demand for local foods is growing and Farm to Table, NMDA, and NMSU and University of Arizona Coop Extension are teaming up to offer a series of two workshops that will help farmers and ranchers in the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Four Corners area to expand their businesses and meet this demand. The theme of the workshops is “Scaling Up: How to grow more, sell more and make more.”
In the first workshops, successful farmers from the area and beyond will present on their experience with:
- Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs),
- Selling to restaurants and institutions,
- Season extension for year round production and sales,
- Livestock marketing, and
- Diversifying product mix.
The workshops will also provide farmers and ranchers with the opportunity to meet in small groups with these farmers to think about which production and marketing improvements will work best for their own farms or ranches.
Workshop participants will be eligible to receive free, one-on-one consulting about their farm and ranch business.
The workshops will be held in the following three locations:
FARMINGTON
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
3pm to 8pm
First Presbyterian Church
865 North Dustin Avenue
SHIPROCK
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Shiprock Chapter House
US 64
10 am to 3 pm
BELEN
Saturday, November 14
Belen Public Library
333 Becker Ave
10am to 3pm
A $5 registration fee covers lunch or dinner and refreshments. To eat, YOU MUST RSVP one week before the workshop. For more information or to RSVP, contact Ilana Blankman at (505) 473-1004 x 12 or ilana.blankman@gmail.com.
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Southwest Marketing Network Hosts Utah Urban Farming Conference
Post Date: Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
November 16, 2009
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
West Valley City, Utah
Are you an urban farmer along the Wasatch Front, or are you interested in producing, processing, distributing, buying or supporting local foods along the Wasatch Front? Then join us for an opportunity to network and strategize. Click here for more information and online conference registration. Register today!
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Save the Date: NM Organic Farming Conference, February 19-20
Post Date: Monday, August 24th, 2009After a great conference in Las Cruces last year, the annual NM Organic Farming Conference will be headed back to Albuquerque in 2010. The conference program is being developed and lots of great speakers lined up, so mark you calendar and check back in a few months for conference details. For questions, contact Le Adams at ladams@cybermesa.com or (505) 473-1004 x10.
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Quivira Coalition Conference, November 4-6
Post Date: Monday, August 24th, 2009Join the Quivira Coalition for their bi-annual conference:
“Living Leopold: Land Ethic and a New Agrarianism”
held at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque, NM
Wednesday to Friday, November 4-6, 2009
The event will include pre-conference workshops on Induced Meandering (a way to restore streambed channels) as well as Range School (this year’s focus is the harmony between livestock and wildlife). Conference topics will include land health, conservation, beauty, sustainable agriculture, restoration, and the land ethic.
For more information or to register online, go to www.quiviracoalition.org.
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Southwest Marketing Network 7th Annual Conference in Durango, April 6-8, 2009
Post Date: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Southwest Marketing Network 7th Annual Conference in Durango, April 6-8, 2009
Registration Now Open!
We have a full schedule of workshops, networking meetings, and free time for informal networking with a focus on “good food networks.” See the February SWMN Newsletter for more on this exciting topic.
Click here to register online.
Click here to download the Conference Brochure and Registration Form.
If you wish a hardcopy mailed to you, contact Le Adams.
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Save the Date: Southwest Marketing Network Conference April 6-8
Post Date: Friday, December 5th, 2008The Southwest Marketing Network has announced that its 7th annual conference will be held on April 6-8 at the Doubletree Hotel in Durango Colorado. The conference will consist of four in-depth tracks on Farm to School (and other larger markets), Organizational Development, Farm Business Management and Livestock Marketing. It will also include shorter workshops on a number of topic and plenaries on developing Good Food systems. The Conference Program and online registration will be available on this site in February. For questions, contact Farm to Table at 505-473-1004 or info@farmtotablenm.org.
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Southwest Marketing Network Conference 2008
Post Date: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
May 5-7th, more than 250 people from all over the Southwest and beyond attended the 6th Annual Southwest Marketing Network Conference held at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe. The attendees were a diverse group of farmers, ranchers, community organizers, students, and representatives of governmental agencies.
The conference began with an all-day tour of three Northern New Mexico farms and a stop at the Feasting Place for a delicious lunch. 
Concurrently, Mark Winne, author of Closing the Food Gap, and Keecha Harris, consultant for Harris & Associates, led participants through the ins and outs of developing a food and agriculture policy council. Farm to School stakeholders also participated in a regional meeting and training session led by Le Adams, Farm to Table, Marion Kalb, Community Food Security Coalition, and Craig Mapel, NM Department of Agriculture. Meanwhile, Ra Vernon, Director of the Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance, engaged ranchers and other interested folks in a lively discussion about the future of grassfed beef in the SW and how to build your direct-marketing business.
Tuesday morning began with two inspiring keynotes from Anthony Flaccavento, of Appalachian Sustainable Development, and Gary Nabhan, author of Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Marketing Place-Based Heritage Foods. Over the next two days participants attended 25 sessions on a variety of topics including:
· Alternative marketing strategies
· Food and Agriculture Policy
· Tribal initiatives
· Farmers’ markets
· Climate change and energy options
· Youth and new farmer initiatives
· Grant writing, business planning and organizational development.
Throughout the conference, participants enjoyed a cornucopia of local foods, including greens from Monte Vista Organic Farm, grassfed beef from Soaring Eagle Ranch, and cheese, jams and salsas from all over the Southwest.
The Conference also provided a number of opportunities for participants to meet, share their experiences and learn from each other. One participant said the best thing about the conference was “the absolutely incredible people. [It was] so great to have challenging conversations with people around food and agriculture issues.”
Conference participants enjoyed the “Great keynotes, great diversity of people and gracious accommodations” and noted that the Southwest Marketing Network had provided them with ”great connections; useful information in the newsletters, and collaborative project opportunities that we need to pursue more assertively.”
The conference could not have happened without the help of the expert presenters, the steering committee of the SWMN, the great staff of La Fonda Hotel and the support of the USDA Risk Management Agency.
Thanks to all who attended, and we hope to see YOU at the SWMN conference next year.
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