EcoFarm 2011 Audio Programs
We are currently featuring audio from the 2010 EcoFarm Conference. Click on any player below to listen.
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Farms With Barns
February 28, 2011
Speaker: Nicolette Hahn Niman and Dan Imhoff
Author/Rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman and Author/Researcher Dan Imhoff discuss animal welfare and the by-products (useful or harmful) of livestock production in agriculture. Nicolette Hahn Niman’s book, Righteous Porkchop traces her transformation from urban environmental attorney exploring the downstream environmental impacts of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to rural rancher raising heritage breeds on open pasture. Dan Imhoff’s new book, The CAFO Reader, tackles one of the most important environmental and ethical issues of our time in a series of essays from leaders in the sustainable agriculture community.
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Can You Imagine a Better Food System? It’s Easy if You Try
February 28, 2011
Speaker: Tom Stearns, High Mowing Seeds, and Peter Warshall, Dreaming New Mexico
A foodshed is a geographic area where vegetables and fruits, nuts and oils, meat and grains feed citizens within the region. Foodsheds encourage a local food economy, favor organic, diverse and low-input farming over high-input and factory farms, and strive to keep all stakeholders in the food system (growers, processors, wholesalers and consumers) circulating their goods, services and dollars within the foodshed. Hardwick Vermont and Dreaming New Mexico are two great examples of foodsheds in action that are sure to provide inspiration for each of us in our own communities for the “globalocalized” model of a positive future.
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2011 Successful Organic Farmers
February 28, 2011
Speaker: Russ Lester, Dixon Ridge Farms, Lou Preston, Preston of Dry Creek, Trini Campbell and Tim Mueller, Riverdog Farm
Dixon Ridge Farms is a 2nd generation family farm converted from almonds to walnuts in 1979 and managed with organic practices since 1883. Preston of Dry Creek has for over four decades to put the region on the food and wine map by celebrating the traditions and individuality of Dry Creek. Since they began farming on two acres in 1990, Tim Mueller and Trini Campbell have grown Riverdog Farm to include 300 acres of certified organic vegetables, fruits, nuts, hogs and hens in the Capay Valley.
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Seeds are the Key to Food Sovereignty with Monica Nuvamsa and Leland Dennis
March 8, 2011
Speaker: Monica Nuvamsa and Leland Dennis, The Hopi Foundation
Agriculture at Hopi is the foundation of culture, religion and what it means to be Hopi. The cycles of planting, growing and harvesting mark the ceremonial cycle and how cultural activities are structured. The Natwani Coalition, a project of the Hopi Foundation, is named for the Hopi word for all that is related to producing food.
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