Northeast Animal-Power Field Days At the NOFA Summer Conference
PROGRAM
Download a flier from Draft Animal-Power Network that explains the overall event with the schedule on a grid.
Download a color poster for NEAPFD
The Northeast Animal-Power Field Days (NEAPFD), a Draft Animal Power Network (DAPNet) event, represents a portion of the NOFA Summer Conference that is devoted to the use of draft animal power in farming, logging, and other practical purposes. In our program you will find a wide range of workshop topics for all ages.
All NEAPFD workshops featuring live working animals (except teen and children workshops) will be held at the UMass Research Farm in South Deerfield.
All classroom-based Animal-Power workshops, all Children and Teen Animal-Power workshops, as well as Animal-Power exhibitors will be located at the UMass campus in Amherst.
There will also be farm tours of two nearby animal-powered farms.
You can read about the Northeast Animal-Power Field Days Workshops at the NOFA Summer Conference by clicking here.
You can read a press release explaining how the Northeast Animal-Power Field Days has come to NOFA Summer Conference by clicking here.
BUS SERVICE
Free bus service will be provided to conference registrants between the UMass campus and the UMass Research Farm. On Sunday morning, free bus service will also be offered to the farm tour in Conway. Buses run on a tight schedule designed to make the workshops run on time as much as possible. If you are relying on bus service between sites, please look at the bus schedule well in advance as there is a small time window for travel between some workshop slots.
The bus schedule is printed on page 3 of the program addendum, here
The workshop schedule provides just 30 minutes between the end of one workshop and beginning of the next. Buses will be leaving each site at staggered times. This means that you will likely need to choose whether to leave a workshop slightly early or arrive at the next workshop slightly late.
Don't miss the bus!
REGISTRATION
There is only one registration for the NOFA Summer Conference with the Northeast Animal-Power Field Days and you can register by clicking here.
There are no camping or housing options at the Research Farm except for presenting teamsters. Accommodations for all others are offered at UMass campus and they are accessed through the normal registration process.
Pre-registered participants choose to pick up packets either at the Registration Tent at UMass Amherst or at the UMass Research Farm in South Deerfield. Walk-in registration is available at UMass Amherst and at the Research Farm in South Deerfield. Additionally, if at the time of the conference you have any problem(s) with your registration, such as an unpaid balance, you will need to go to the Registration Tent at UMass Amherst to resolve the issue(s), even if you planned to pick-up your packet in South Deerfield.
Pets are not allowed at the Research Farm or at the UMass campus. Working animals are allowed by invitation only.