At-A-Glance
Conference
15TH ANNIVERSARY ORGANIC
CONFERENCE & TRADE SHOW
NOVEMBER 23 MONDAY
Time
Soil - Field Crops
Soil - General
Farmers’ Market
Sessions
Homesteading
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
Ballroom C
Ballroom D
Opening Remarks & Plenary Session: Soil
Matters: Organic From the Ground Up
Relationship Marketing
and Branding
JEFF MOYER of the Rodale Institute
MICHELLE WOLF
How Soil Type Affects
your Management
Transitioning to No -Till
Vegetables
Exceptional Customer
Service
DR. ANDY
HAMMERMEISTER
JEFF MOYER
MICHELLE WOLF
9:00 AM
10:00
AM
(SW)
11:00
AM
11:30
AM
Farmers’ Top 10 Tips for
Backyard Livestock
SALLY BERNARD
TRADE SHOW & JUST US! COFFEE BREAK
How do Subsoilers
Work in Various Soils?
Crop Rotations for Soil
Health
Merchandising and
Display
DENIS LAFRANCE
(SW)
JEFF MOYER
(NM)
MICHELLE WOLF
Working with
Perennials: Food, Fuel,
and Medicine
ESTELLE DRISDELLE
LUNCH BREAK - Visit our Trade Show!
12:30
PM
2:30 PM
Featuring a lunchtime presentation: Seed Conservation for Uncertain Times:
The Scatterseed Project with WILL BONSALL (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)
Crop Rotations for Soil
Health (Field Crops
Edition)
JEFF MOYER (NM)
Leadership Training
Backyard Vegetables
for Winter Storage
MICHELLE WOLF
DENIS LAFRANCE
(CM)
GAIL KERN
TRADE SHOW & JUST US! COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
Permanent Raised
Beds
Soil Regeneration for
Healthy Farms and
Resiliency
Green Manures for
Nitrogen in Vegetable
Production
RUTH KNIGHT (SW)
DENIS LAFRANCE
(NM)
Vendors as Board
Members
Growing and
Processing Grain on a
Home Scale
MICHELLE WOLF
5:00 PM
TRADE SHOW TIME AND SUPPER
7:00 PM
Local Organic Kick-Off at Holland College
WILL BONSALL
NOVEMBER 24 TUESDAY
Time
Fruit/Value Added
Field Crops/Grain
Seed
Protected Culture
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
Ballroom C
Ballroom D
Visit our Trade Show!
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
10:00
AM
Opening Plenary: 15 Years - ACORN Beginnings Panel Discussion
Considerations for
Beginner Wine Grape
Production
Managing Novel Green
Manures and Nutrient
Sources in Organic
Field Crop Systems
MICHAEL LIGHTFOOT
Field Layout
Considerations for Seed
Production
Part 1: Managing
Tomatoes & Peppers in
High Tunnels
KIM DELANEY
CHRISTINE
VILLENEUVE
(CM)
DEREK LYNCH (NM)
11:00
AM
JUST US! COFFEE BREAK - Visit our Trade Show and Silent Auction!
Table Grapes in Colder
Climates
11:30
AM
Grain Marketing Models
JEAN-GUY
VAILLANCOURT
BERNADETTE
GOGUEN
Achieving Quality
Vegetable Seed
Through Pollination
Control
Part 2: NBDAAF
Grafted Tomato and
Coloured Pepper Demo
Project
WILL BONSALL
CHRISTINE
VILLENEUVE
CLAUDE
BERTHÉLÉMÉ (CM)
(CM)
LUNCH: Visit our Trade Show and Silent Auction!
12:30
AM
2:30 PM
Featuring a lunchtime presentation (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM):
“Seeds of Transition: Effective Collaborative Seed Growing Networks” with KIM DELANEY
Part 1 - Possibilities in
Organic Processing
Wireworm Control in
Grain Production
Quality Biennial Seed
Production in Northern
Climates
EDWARD CHARTER
DR CHRISTINE
NOROHNA
WILL BONSALL
(PM)
(CM)
An Overview of Grafting
for Vegetable Crops
ANDREW MEFFERD
(CM)
3:30 PM
4:00 PM
JUST US! COFFEE BREAK - Visit our Trade Show and Silent Auction!
Part 2 - Processing
Success Stories!
Cover Crops in Potato
Production
RUTH KNIGHT
Seed Cleaning
Equipment & Sources
Relative to your Scale
of Production
Best Practices for
Protected Culture:
Eggplant and
Cucumber Production
EDWARD CHARTER
(CM)
KIM DELANEY
ANDREW MEFFERD
(CM)
5:00 PM
Pre-Banquet Reception - Visit our Trade Show!
6:30 PM
ACORN’s Celebratory, 100% Organic, Locally-Sourced Banquet!
8:00 PM
KEYNOTE WITH DR. ANDY HAMMERMEISTER - ORGANIC 3.0
NOVEMBER 25 WEDNESDAY
Horticulture
Biodiversity
Enterprising
Organics
Livestock
Ballroom A
Ballroom B
Ballroom C
Ballroom D
Time
9:00
AM
Plenary - Organic in The Next 15 Years - What
Might 2030 Look Like?
CHEF MICHAEL SMITH - PEI Food Ambassador
Wireworm Management
in Horticultural Crops
10:00
AM
DR CHRISTINE
NOROHNA
So You Want to go 4D:
Planning Trees into
your Farmscape (a
closer examination of
Hedgerows and
Windbreaks)
Considerations for
Cooperation:
Cooperative Farming
Models
Business of Livestock Make your Livestock
Make Money
TIM LIVINGSTONE
ALYSON CHISHOLM
(PM)
CHRISTOPHER AND
HANNAH BUSCHAUS
11:00
AM
11:15
AM
SHORT BREAK - Seed Swap and Sale
Organic Sweet
Potatoes: Challenges
and Solutions to
growing sweet potatoes
in the North
Habitat Management for
Native Pollinators
Considerations for
Selling to Grocery
Chains
ROBYN MCCALLUM
Whole Animal Butchery
CHRIS DE WAAL
MATT DYKERMAN
(PM)
KIRSTEN
LIVINGSTONE (CM)
12:15
PM
SHORT LUNCH - Seed Swap and Sale
Floral CSA - Grow,
Design and Sell
1:30 PM
AMANDA MUIS
BROWN
Encouraging Swift and
Swallows on the
Organic Farm
Holistic Business/Life Our Journey with
Strategic Farm Planning
ALLY MANTHORNE
TIM & KIRSTEN
LIVINGSTONE
Homeopathic First Aid
for Acute Trauma and
the First Stage of
Fevers
JULIE ANNE LEE
2:30 PM
An Innovative Organic
Sweet Corn System for
the Maritimes
JOSÉE OWEN (CM)
4:00 PM
Encouraging On-Farm
Biodiversity
PAUL MANNING
(PM)
FarmHack:
Tools and Innovations
for the Small-Scale
Farm Part II
Tools for Integrating
Livestock into Organic
Field Cropping Systems
RUTH KNIGHT
CONFERENCE WRAP UP - SEE YOU IN NEW BRUNSWICK IN 2016!