WORKSHOP TITLES AND PRESENTERS BY TIME (2009)
Updated July 29, 2009 - 2010 workshops coming soon
Workshops by Category
Workshops with Full Text Descriptions
Latest Addendum
Workshops marked * will be taped for future rental through the NOFA Video Project.
Workshops marked ** will qualify for credits in the NOFA Organic Land Care Program.
Workshops marked *** are part of the Mass Grass Grazing School.
ADULT WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 2:00-3:30 PM
1) Animal Power in Vegetable Fields - Tevis Robertson-Goldberg
2) Attached Greenhouse for Food, Heat, and Hot Water - Bob Jennings
3) Dahlias and Gladiolas - Lynda Simkins
4) Gardening Like the Forest: Home-Scale Food Forestry** - Dave Jacke
6) Growing Small Fruits - Daryl Hoitt
7) How to Be More Self-Reliant During Difficult Economic Times** - Bill MacKentley: Longtime druid greenman and scrounger for 60 years!
8) Land Trusts & Grassroots Community Organizations - Kate Kerivan and Sarah Mildren
9) Learning about Loans, Grants, and other Financial Assistance for NE Organic Farms - Norman Bender and Joseph Bonelli
10) Let's Lacto-fer-mentate! - Beth Ingham
11) Make Delicious Meals with Local Greens - Leslie Cerier
12) Organic Apple Growing at Bird of the Hand Farm** - Cathy Harragian and Sue Harragin
13) Pastured Certified Organic Poultry Production* - Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge
14) Pedal Revolution: Bike Transport Today - Jack Spula
15) Principles of Making Quality Hay - Stephen Herbert
16) Restoring Our Seed: On-Farm Breeding for Farmers** - Ruth Hazzard, Eli Rogosa, and CR Lawn
17) Rethinking Local Agricultural Infrastructure - Margaret Christie and Jess Cook
18) Sausage Making, Smoking & Curing at Home - Anne Obelnicki
19) TOUR: Hampshire College Farm Tour - Leslie Cox
20) Transitioning a Dairy Farm to Organic - Sarah Flack
21) What You ACTUALLY NEED to Live Off the Grid, and Why - Jim Strickland and Dave Smally
TEEN WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 2:00-3:30 PM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
22) How to Bag Waste - Heather Botelle
23) Tie-Dying - Sharon Begley
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 2:00-3:30 PM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
24) Butter Making for Beginners (Ages 7-12) - Gavin Harper
25) Creating a Nature Weaving (Ages 5-10) - Adele Smith-Penniman
26) Drawing from Nature (Ages 7-12) - Deborah Bazer and Lahri Bond
27) Felting Fun (Ages 6-12) - Iris Weaver
ADULT WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 4:00 - 5:30 PM
28) Backyard Medicinal Herb Walk - Chris Marano
29) Building Direct Year-Round Markets - Claire Morenon and Devon Whitney-Deal
30) Carbon Negative Farming & Climate Change** - David Yarrow
32) Co-ops: Planning for a Sustainable Future - Michael Faber and Erbin Crowell
33) Easy no-Knead Artisan Bread at Home - Linda Ugelow
34) Farm and Garden Native Bee Habitat Creation - Tom Sullivan
35) Growing Broccoli and other Brassicas - Elizabeth Henderson
36) Growing Food and Family: Homestead Production - Margaret Christie and Nicholas Jones
37) Holistic Energy Healing for Trees/Plants** - Dr. Jim Conroy and Ms. Basia Alexander
38) Importance of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Your Diet - Rosalind Michahelles
39) Local Produce for Low-Income Communities - Heidi Exline - Abby Youngblood
40) Northeast SARE Farmer Grants - Carol Delaney
41) Owner-Built Straw Bale Home Construction - David Demarest
42) Perennial Division** - Elaine Peterson and Dawn Pavone
43) Starting a CSA* - Carolyn Llewellyn
44) Stretches to Sustain the Farmers Body - Lydia Irons
45) The Raw Milk Revolution - David Gumpert
46) TOUR: Simple Gifts Farm's CSA Management - Jeremy Barker-Plotkin
47) Using Organic Dairy Resources in the Field - Bethany Wallis and Robert Perry
48) Vegetable Production for the Fall Market - Nancy Hanson
49) VITEX: A Woman's Incredible HERB! - Carol Joyce
TEEN WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 4:00-5:30 PM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
50) Filmmaking for Beginners - Cheri Robartes
51) Preparing Wild Edibles and Weeds - Mira Nussbaum
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - FRIDAY 4:00-5:30 PM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
52) Building Fairy Houses (Ages 5-10) - Pamela Kimball
53) Indoor Composting with Red Wigglers (for kids) (Ages 9-12) - Erin Schminke
54) Painting the 2009 Children's Parade Banner (Ages 5-12) - Rachel Silverman
55) Victorian Games (Ages 8-12) - Jennifer Byington
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 8:00-9:30 AM
56) A Paradigm Shift: Concepts Necessary for the Production of Nutrient Dense Crops** - Daniel Kittredge
57) Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri, and Ecological Cities - George Kosmides
58) DIY Natural Body Products - Tom Nielsen
59) Eden Arising: Ecological Design as Spiritual Practice - Dave Jacke
60) Felting Wool - Rebecca Buell
61) Grazing 101*** - Sarah Flack
62) How to Get Started in Beekeeping - Roland Sevigny
63) Indoor Composting with Redworms** - Carol Schminke and Lynette Courtney
64) Los Basicos de Fertilidad de Suelo (Spanish)** - Frank Mangan
65) Introduction to Water Bath Canning - Clio Fisher and Eric Fisher
66) LIFE: Locally Integrated Food and Energy** - David Yarrow
67) Luscious Landscaping * and ** - Lee Reich and Deb Goldman
68) Making the Most of Your Woodland - Michael Farrell
69) Maple Sugarin' - Leslie Cox
70) NAIS: What It Is, And What You Can Do About It - Judith McGeary
71) Nuts & Bolts of a Financially Successful Business** - Michael Faber and Dan Kaplan
73) Pasturing in Extreme Conditions*** - Stephen Herbert
74) Perennial Plant Care** - Stephanie White
75) Raising Organic Hogs from Piglet to Porkchop - Michael Glos and Karma Glos
76) Sustainable Mushroom Cultivation For Home & Farm - David Demarest
76A) Getting Into Raw Foods - Rawdawg Rory
76B) Humanure - Bill Duesing
TEEN WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 8:00 - 9:30 AM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
77) Coastal Erosion, Fisheries, and Climate Change - Woody Ruiz
78) Natural Remedies for a Toxin Free Life! - Arshinder Kaur
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 8:00-9:30 AM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
79) Calf Care (All ages) - Brad Teeter and Josh Pincus
80) Dogs Herd Ducks; Kids Herd Kids (All ages) - Jill Horton-Lyons and Jim Lyons
81) Down on the Farm (Ages 3-8) - Janna Boettcher and Claire Boettcher
82) Karate Kids (Ages 5-7) - Lexi Ugelow and Endre Jobbagy
83) Wildcraft: Herbal Adventures (Ages 7-12) - Maria Horvath and Anais Sidonia
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM
84) Alternative Health Practices for Livestock*** - Michael Keilty
85) Bicycle Empowerment - Ariel Stimson and David Dilorenzo
86) Cultivating a profit from Community and School Gardens - Aviva Asher
87) Gardening in the 21st Century: The Sustainable Landscape** - Marie Stella
88) Got Stress? A Holistic Approach to Health - Kimberly Ladue
89) Grass-fed Sheep Production and Management - Dale Perkins
90) Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms* - Paul Stamets
91) Herbal Medicine From the Outside In - Jane LaForce
92) Herbs and Companion Planting** - Ruth Green
93) How Are We Going To Eat? - Bill Duesing
94) Introduccion a la Venta de Productos y Servicios Agricola (Spanish) - Derek Mitchell
95) Making the Most of Your Maples - Michael Farrell
96) Nutrient Dense Crop Production: A How To** - Daniel Kittredge
97) Plant Species Diversity and Pasture Management*** - Matt Sanderson
98) Production and Business Fundamentals of Organic Egg Production - Michael Glos and Karma Glos
99) Promoting Urban Agriculture with Inner-City Youth - Ruby S. Maddox-Fisher
100) Raised Bed Gardening and Nutrient Density** - Sammy De
101) Root Cellars and Crop Storage Structures: Methods, Materials, and Designs - Chris Chaisson and Glenn Coville
103) Small Scale Aquaculture and Aquaponics - Craig Hollingsworth
104) Sustainable City Toolbox - Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
105) This Ain't Peanuts!-It's Small Farm Food Safety - Steve Gilman
106) Tools for Starting Community Farms - Heather Scott
107) Value-Added Products From Your Farm - Cliff Hatch
107A) Streamlining Your Garden Maintenance Routine - Ingrid Wheeler
TEEN WORKSHOPS - SATUDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
108) Fiber Art Fun - Joanne Ducas
109) Making Herbal Creams and Salves - Sarah Shields
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
110) Hopi Blue Corn from Grain to Griddle (Ages 5-12) - Rachel Scherer and Bruce Scherer
111) Not-so-boring Board Games (Ages 8-12) - Claire Boettcher and Caitlin Zampieron
112) Oxen (All ages) - Brad Teeter and Josh Pincus
113) Singing all the Day (Ages 2-6) - Cheri Robartes
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 1:00 - 2:30 PM
114) Basic Homestead Electrical Wiring - Sharon Gensler
115) Cheese from Sunlight and Rain: Profitable 100% Grass-fed Dairying*** - Jonathan S. White
116) Comparing Grass-fed Steers to Grain-fed Steers*** - Tom Gallagher
117) Continuous Lettuce Production - Julie Rawson
118) Designing & Building Low Cost Farm Structures - Jack Kittredge
119) Dismantling Legal Obstacles to Self-Reliance - Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
120) Extending the Growing Season in New England - Ted Dobson
121) Hands-on Draft Horses - Dale Perkins
122) Introduccion a la Permacultura (Spanish)** - Eric Toensmeier
123) Living Aloha - Ellen Zepp
124) Local Economies Connecting Communities and Agriculture - Barry Hollister
125) Maintaining Optimum Health for the Whole Family - Tony(a) Lemos
126) Metabolic Cleansing for Today's Toxic World: a 3 Step Approach - Dr. Abbas Qutab
127) My Weedless Garden** - Lee Reich and Deb Goldman
128) Mycoforestry and Mycoremediation - Paul Stamets
129) Primitive Spinning for the 21st Century - Michael Greenberg
130) Producing Natural, Local Meat for Consumers*** - Joseph Bonelli and Kristen Castrataro
131) Public Schools and Summer Programs - Lynda Simkins
132) Raising Sheep: Why and How - Jim Lyons and Jill-Horton Lyons
134) TOUR: Red Fire Farm's Machinery for Vegetable Farming * and ** - Ryan Voiland and Sarah Ingraham
135) TOUR: Sidehill Farm Dairy - Paul Lacinski and Amy Klippenstein
136) Urban Farms: Connecting Urban Communities to Local Food - Matthew Kochka
137) Veggies Your Family Will Love! - Ibtihaj Amatul-Wadud and Qamaria Amatul-Wadud
138) Winter Growing for CSA - Kristin Lewis
138A) Overcoming the Affordability Barrier: Connecting Low-Income People to Fresh Food -
Heather McMann and Janel Wright
TEEN WORKSHOPS - SATURDAY 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
139) Beginning Goat Keeping - Kaethe Armitage and Jennifer Caron
140) Edible Wild Plants of the Northeast - John Root
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP - SATURDAY 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
141) NOFA Anthem Parade Rap (Ages 9-12) - Valerie Walton
142) Parade Prep (All ages) - Woody Ruiz
SATURDAY 3:30 - 5:00 PM - Grazing School Pasture Walk***
143) TOUR: UMass Pasture Research Center - Stephen Herbert
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 8:00 - 9:30 AM
144) Acquiring Land: Strategies and Options - Bob Bernstein
145) City Chickens: Hens in Cities and Suburbs - Meg Taylor
146) College to Collards: Creating Campus Gardens - Hannah Eisler Burnett and Daniel MacPhee
147) Connecting Growers and Buyers - Jeffrey Barry
148) Cultured Dairy Products* - Rebecca Buell
149) Food as Medicine - Betzy Bancroft
150) Food Safety: What's Next? - Jack Kittredge and Ed Stockman
151) Growing Whole: An introduction to Psychosynthesis for Farmers/Gardeners - Pru Smith
152) Health Focused Dentistry - Jean Nordin-Evans
153) Heirloom Economy - Tim Wightman
155) More than Just Food: Mission-Driven Education - Greg Maslowe
156) On-Farm Water Quality Monitoring** - Perry Thomas
158) Putting Up Food: Local Eating for the Year - Leo Pollock
159) Replacing Invasive Plants with Natives Varieties** - Carol Schminke and Lynette Courtney
160) Small Growers Co-ops for Farm Viability - Richard Pederson and Christina Dedora
161) Starting A Farm - Elizabeth Henderson
162) Storage Crops for Market: Expanding into Winter Availability - Chris Chaisson and Glenn Coville
163) The Path To Nutrient Density** - Derek Christianson
164) Sustainable, Affordable, and Ecological Living - Jen Smith and Megan McDonough
165) Your Farm's First Cow - Dominic Palumbo
165A) Changing the Landscape of Landscaping: Organic Land Care Activism** - Bernadette Giblin
165B) Community Acupuncture for All - Isenberg School of Management 129
TEEN WORKSHOP - SUNDAY 8:00 - 9:30 AM - Graduate Lounge, Campus Center
167) You GLOW Girl! - Melanée Addison
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 8:00 - 9:30 AM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
168) Candlemaking (All ages) - Rachel Besserman
169) Music and Movement (Ages 2-6) - Tad Hitchcock
170) Rubber Stamping (Ages 8-12) - Mary Lou Conna
171) Why is the Sky So High? A Play (All ages) - Tom Neilson
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM
173) Community Farming in Maine: A Case Study Beginner - Richard Rudolph
174) Culinary Herbs for Fresh, Potted and Dried Sales - Michael Glos and Karma Glos
175) Farms Forever: Farm Transfer Resources - Katie Cavanagh
176) Forming and Maintaining a Group Garden - Sondra Sprinkling and Michael Rice
177) Generating an Income and Empowering Teens - Derek Mitchell
178) Growing Black Walnuts for Timber and Sustenance** - Bill MacKentley
179) Lyme Disease: a Conventional and Naturopathic Medical Perspective** - Dr. Emily Maiella
180) MA Beginning Farmers - Programs Assessment - Jennifer Hashley and Hugh Joseph
181) Market Mobile: Better Food Distribution - Noah Fulmer
182) Nature as Model: Rearing and Breeding Pigs in the Woods - Craig Haney
183) Political Climate for Raw Milk - Pete Kennedy
184) Preserving Land in the City for Food Production* - Katherine Brown and Michelle Sheehan
185) Producing Diverse and Biologically Active Compost Tea** - Peter Schmidt
186) Small-Scale Grain Production - Tevis Robertson-Goldberg
187) Take Grazing to a Higher Level - Matthew Biskup
188) Teaching Kids in the Kitchen, Barn, and Garden - Meg Taylor, Alya Stoffer-Koloszyc, and Hope Guardenier
189) Tomatoes 101 - Matthew Kochka
190) TOUR: Brookfield Farm's CSA Management - Adan Martinez
191) Vermiculture: The Wonderful World of Worm Composting - Joan O'Connor
192) Zero Waste: A Solution to the Garbage Crisis - Tracy Frisch
192A) Slow Foods for Quick Preparation - Tess Bois and Dawn Desilets Sulmasy
TEEN WORKSHOP - SUNDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
193) Backyard Chickens - Alice Armen
194) Making Nature Journals - Jenny Coy and David Coy
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 10:00 - 11:30 AM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
195) Discovering Wind Energy (Ages 8-12) - Mark Walter
196) Farm Soccer (All ages) - Tom Szekely and Maggie Caso
197) Puppets (Ages 5-12) - Tom Stock
198) What is Health? (Ages 9-12) - Kimberly Ladue
ADULT WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 1:00 - 2:30 PM
199) "Real Food" From the Home Garden - Amy LeBlanc
200) Accessing Public and Non-Profit Land for Community Farming - Grey Lee and Wayne Castonguay
201) Agroforestry in the Northeast - Connor Stedman
202) Bio-intensive Backyard Gardening - Danielle Andrews
203) Cooking with Herbs - Deb Hayes and David Xanatos
204) Deep Green Technology, Home Planning, and the Code - Jonathan von Ranson and Susan von Ranson
205) Electric Tractors for Farm Use - Jim Coate
206) Growing an ORGANICzation** - Jack Mastrianni
207) Herbal Remedies 101: A Demonstration - Sarah Stockwell-Arthen
208) Herbs and Perennials in Landscape Design** - Lynn Hartman
209) Indian Snacks - Roshni Prabakar and Anushka Prabakar
210) Net Zero Energy Homes - Mary Kraus
211) New Farmer Training Programs & Multi-farm CSAs - McKenzie Boekholder and Matthew Himmel
212) Organic Agriculture in Cuba - Vince Cirasole
213) Potatoes: Not Just Round and White!* - Abby Seaman and Michael Glos
214) Producing an Organic Compost for the Current Markets** - Robert Kelly
215) Singing for Love of Land and Life - Eveline MacDougal
216) The Ecological Impact of Factory Farming - Drew Wilson
217) TOUR: Insect Biology and Management, Simple Gifts Farm** - Ruth Hazzard
218) Traditional Pickling/Lacto-Fermentation - Dan Rosenberg
219) Urban Beekeeping** Beginner - Jean-Claude Bourrut LaCouture
TEEN WORKSHOP - SUNDAY 1:00-2:30 PM - Grad Lounge, Campus Center
220) Needle Felting - Julia Agron
221) Writing Music For Social Change - Tom Neilson
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS - SUNDAY 1:00 - 2:30 PM - Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union
222) Plant Part Salad (Ages 7-12) - Lauren Adler
223) Play Party Dancing (Ages 7-12) - Valerie Walton
224) Pond Creatures (Ages 5-12) - Leah Penniman and Jonah Vitale-Wolff