Speakers Program 2008
Plenary Session
Let’s Eat Dirt: The seamless connection between soil and dinner glues farmers to their patrons and cultures to their landscape.
Joel Salatin
Polyface Farms
farmer and author
Market Gardening
Permaculture approach to soil management
Ken Taylor
Windmill Point Organic Farm
Composting On The Organic Vegetable Farm
Maureen Bostock
Sweet Meadow Farm
The Soil System – A Geological Prospective
John Slack
Agricultural Mineral Prospectors
Field Crops
Soil Biology
Dr Jason Hofman
Soil Food Web Canada East
How Soils Work: analyzing and balancing minerals
Gary Skillen
Ecological Agricultural Solutions and Energies
Soil Quality and Sustainability: Why Bother?
Andy Hammermeister & Derek Lynch
Organic Agriculture Center of Canada
Livestock Production
Canadian Animal Genetic Resource Program
Ted Lawrence
Dr Yves Plante
Agriculture AgriFood Canada
Large Scale Composting Methods and Technologies
Valerie Moen
Global Repair
A manure biodigester on your farm
Graeme Millen
Genesys BioGas Inc
General Interest
Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS)
Robert Bailey
Delta Waterfowl Foundation
Food for thought – cooking demonstration
Two Organic Ladies from Lanark
Janet Duncan & Gleniss Harwig
Canadian Organic Regulatory Regime
Michel Saumur
CFIA