Session 1
Workshops and Presentations - Tuesday 3:00 PM
A Midwest Homecoming featured five sessions of concurrent workshops, group presentations and roundtable discussions. Click on the title of a workshop or group presentation to see available downloads for that session. Not all presentation materials are available.
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BH01. Saving Heritage Turkeys (workshop)
Learn how a group saved heritage turkeys, once on the brink of extinction, perpetuating a profitable enterprise for range poultry farmers.
Robert Gogal, Virginia College
Marjorie Bender, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
Frank Reese, Good Shepherd Turkey Ranch, Lindsborg, Kan.
Robert LaValva, Slow Food USA
BH02. CSP on the Ground: Lessons learned from Iowa, Montana and Wisconsin (roundtable)
Discuss a model approach to implementing the Conservation Security Program in three states.
Jeanne Merrill, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
Teresa Opheim, Practical Farmers of Iowa
Jeff Schahczenski, National Center for Appropriate Technology
BH03. Sustainable Apple Production (workshop)
Learn about growing apples using methods that will reduce off-farm inputs for pest management, expand market access and increase access to federal conservation programs.
Dierdre Birmingham, Upper Midwest Organic Tree Fruit Network
Larry Elworth, Center for Agricultural Partnerships
Zeke Goodband, Scott Farm, Dummerston, Vt.
BH04. Farm Beginnings (workshop)
Hear success stories from this program designed to help beginning and transitioning farmers with goal setting, business planning and hands-on farm experience.
Amy Bacigalupo, Land Stewardship Project
Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Reagan Hulbert, 2003 Farm Beginnings graduate
BH05. Group presentations/Direct-Market Successes 1:
Developing a Saskatoon Berry Market in the Upper Midwest
Witness the efforts of a farm family marketing saskatoons, a wild fruit, on a central Minnesota farm. Marketing approaches will promote superior fruit size, taste and healthy properties.
Patricia Altrichter and Judy Heiling, beef farmers, Randall, Minn.
Value-Added Fruit and Vegetable Processing, Product Development, and Marketing for Small Farms
Learn more about methods to preserve and process food for winter distribution, along with marketing options.
Solveig Hanson, GROWN Locally, Potsville, IA
Eco-Labeling, Nationwide
Consider the future of eco-labels and their importance in serving growers in local and regional marketing.
Michael K. Hansen, Consumer Policy Institute
Home-Based Micro-Processing
Thanks to a new Kentucky law, close to 200 farmers have registered to process fruit and vegetables in their home kitchens, then sell their products, from pumpkin bread to salsa. Learn more about it!
Sandra Bastin, University of KY
