Breakout Sessions
Saturday, February 15th. 11:0am.
Hugelkultur. Ross
Brockley
Is Hugelkultur just burying wood and stuff
in the ground and planting something on top of it? Yes! Join Lincoln area
vegetable grower and stand-up comedian Ross Brockley while he shares his
experience with this growing technique.
About Ross: Ross Brockley and his wife operate Farmacueticals, a CSA and have been
growing vegetables for 12 years.
Whole Food Systems as a Tool for Rural Economic Development. Harold Stone
Over the past 3 years,
Stones Thoreau – Farm to Market, Inc. has worked to develop diverse food based
opportunities in the communities surrounding Davenport, NE. These enterprises
optimize rural market niches while remaining nimble to capitalize on new
prospects for business development.
About Harold: Dr. Harold L. Stone, owner of Stones Thoreau – Farm to
Market, Inc. and South Maple Street Farmers Market and Commercial Kitchen is
implementing food-based strategies to restore vitality to rural
communities. His primary focus is to create a replicable whole food
system that will serve as an economic engine for development in rural food
deserts. For over 30 years Dr. Stone, has been a professor of Regional Planning,
a Cooperative Extension Associate in Soil and Crop Science at Texas A&M
University, and supervised the preservation of historic structures in
Washington, DC for the National Park Service.
Telling Our Farm and Ranch Stories. Twyla Hansen
Everyone
has a story to tell about their life on the land. In this session we will
explore ways to start writing your own stories of what really happens out
there, using a process of guided exercises. Beginner-friendly and interactive;
bring your own writing tools.
About Twyla: Twyla Hansen is
co-author of four organic farming NebGuides, and has published articles on
sustainable agriculture and six books of poetry, winning the Nebraska Book
Award in 2012 and 2004. She is a creative writer presenter in schools and
libraries through Humanities Nebraska. Her BS (Horticulture) and MAg
(Agroecology) are from UNL. Twyla grew up in Burt County on land her
grandparents farmed as immigrants from Denmark in the late 1800s. She works and
lives in Lincoln, where her wild acre earned the Mayor’s Landscape Conservation
Award in 1994.
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