Join NOFA NJ for our 23rd Annual Winter Conference, Building on a History of Innovation in the Garden State. New Jersey’s largest agricultural & food conference featuring two days of classes and nationally recognized speakers in sustainable agriculture.
Keynote Speaker & Rare Presentations
Eliot Coleman will be our Keynote Speaker. Eliot has more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field vegetables,greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and range poultry. He is the author of The New Organic Grower, Four Season Harvest and the Winter Harvest Handbook.
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Eliot Coleman at the MOFGA fair presenting on how to extend the growing season using double – covered low tunnels.
Michael Phillips, widely acclaimed author of The Apple Grower and The Holistic Orchard and renowned bio-intensive orchardist, will be presenting at NOFA-NJ’s 2013 Annual Winter Conference on organic apples and healing herbs. He and his family own HeartsongFarm Healing Herbs. Michael has a good ol' time teaching folks about apple growing from a holistic perspective. Homesteaders and small farmers alike can benefit from having a Grower Consultation when this apple guy offers specific advice tailored to localized challenges.
Ellen Ecker-Ogden, author of the The Vermont Cheese Book and her newest, The Complete Kitchen Garden, will be presenting on Designing Basics for Your Kitchen Gadren. Ellen believes a kitchen garden is a way of life and she shares fresh ideas to inspire everyone to plant a seed and watch it grow and cook from the harvest. She lectures widely to garden clubs, botanic garden and flower shows throughout the U.S. on ways to embrace the garden as a way of life and establish a long term commitment that supports a connection to the soil and the food we serve each day.
Who Should Come?
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This will be an excellent opportunity for both novices and those experienced with agriculture— as well as those interested in organic or sustainable farming and gardening — to learn more about various approaches to agricultural renewal. More than 40 workshops will provide inspiration and practical advice for farmers and gardeners, educators and activists, consumers and entrepreneurs, young and old.
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