a weekend of workshops for beginning gardeners to advanced commercial growers ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL Spring Conference The Largest Sustainable Conference in the Southeast

Saturday & Sunday, name tags are very important because they show us that you are a March 5 & 6, 2011 paid registrant and we’re glad to have University of North Carolina at Asheville you. BLUE tags get you in on Saturday, (UNCA) Asheville, NC March 5, while GREEN tags get you in on Sunday, March 6. Make sure you’re flashing the right color, or you may get TABLE OF CONTENTS stopped! TICKETS that you purchased Map of Campus …...... 2-3 for half day hands on workshops, Saturday March 5 Class Schedule…...... 4 cooking classes or the FarmSoiree are Sunday March 6 Class Schedule…...... 5 tucked into the back of your name Class Descriptions……...... 6-9 tag holder. Have these out and ready at the door for our volunteer door Half Day Hands on Workshops…...... 10-11 monitors. If you are missing some Friday On Session…...... 11 tickets that you think you should have, Thanks to Our Sponsors…………...... 12-14 please visit OGS Headquarters in the Childrens Program Schedule & About Campus HU Building. & Vendor Talks …...... 15 classes are open to all who have Exhibitors & Silent Auction Donors…...... 16 registered, with the exception of Organizers and Volunteers…………...... 17 half day hands on workshops and Speaker Bios……………...... 18-20 WELCOME to the 18th Annual cooking classes, which required pre- OGS Spring Conference! registration and extra fees. If you are Conference Evaluation………...... 21-22 particularly interested in a class, Opportunities……...... 23-24 After our biggest and best year yet in GET THERE EARLY, as sometimes we 2010, we’re excited to welcome you back have more to share than we have Schedule to the UNCA campus for another round of seats. In half day workshops and 7:30-8:30 Registration in Highsmith Union learning and networking! Please review the cooking classes there will be ticket map on pages 2-3 to find your bearings. takers and a roll call. NO crashers, 8:00-9:00 Trade Show open. Visit Exhibits, please! Seed & Exchange, and KEY LOCATIONS on CAMPUS: Silent Auction coffee is for sale from Sweet Monkey HighSmith Student Union Bakery in the HU Building. Kudos to 9:00-10:30 Session 1 Building (HU) houses those who brought their own mug— you’ll be receiving a small discount for 10:30-11:00 Break • Visit Exhibits, Seed & keeping the earth in mind! Plant Exchange, and Silent Auction • OGS Headquarters • Registration (until 9:00 am) need help? Come to the OGS 11:00-12:30 Session 2 • Lunch Vendors Headquarters in the Highsmith 12:30-2:00 Lunch • Visit Exhibits, Seed & • Trade Show Exhibitors Union Building, or look for staff and Plant Exchange, Silent Auction and • Seed & Plant Exchange volunteers wearing green arm bands. Vendor Talks • Silent Auction FarmSoiree: You can still buy 2:00-3:30 Session 3 tickets! Join us Saturday night at 8pm for a FarmSoiree, featuring some local 3:30-4:00 Break • Visit Exhibits, Seed & CLASSES are in various buildings around celebrities and Camille Kingsolver, plus Plant Exchange and Silent Auction campus, most of which surround the Grassy the Firecracker Jazz Band. Tickets University QUAD. Use the map on pages 2-3 are available at Registration in HU 4:00-5:30 Session 4 to navigate, follow signs, or ask someone from 7-9am, or at OGS HQ all day on wearing a green arm band. Saturday. 4:00 Trade Show closes ringers off! Please turn off your cell

8:00-12:00 FARM SOIREE. Stop by the OGS phone out of courtesy and respect for Booth in Highsmith Union for those around you. more information Buildings for OGS use are More Parking available off University Heights University Heights in ZAGEIR Future I-26 x black with white text. Lots D HALL 19/23 off of Lots 9 OWEN Broadway ZH Deck Hall

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PHILLIPS GRASSY UNIVERSITY QUADRANGLE LIBRARY To Edgewood Rd. Cross this to access buildings CARMICHAEL University Heights HALL Parking lot C Parking lot 7B RHODES / ROBINSON HUMANITIES SATURDAY WORKSHOPS P-AM: FRESH WINES ...... Zeis 124 • MAIN ENTRANCE LECTURE P-PM: ARTISINAL BREAD BAKING ...... Karpen 006 Mills Residence HALL Q-AM: INTRO TO FERMENTATION ...... Zeis 126 Q-PM: HOME TEMPEH PRODUCTION ...... Zeis 126 Hall R-AM: BUILD YOUR OWN WOOD-FIRED OVEN ...... Karpen 006 University Heights R-PM: FOOD AS MEDICINE ...... Zeis 128 ZEIS HALL S-AM: DRY STACK STONE ...... Karpen 012 S-PM: GROWING OYSTER MUSHROOMS...... Zeis 124 A: MISCELLANEOUS ...... LipinskyAudiorium T-AM: MICROBES RULE: BIOCHAR ...... Karpen 034 B: ...... Robinson 125 T-PM: WILD BASKETS ...... Karpen 034 Hall U-AM: BIOMASS GASIFICATION ...... Karpen 033 Mills Residence C: SOILS ...... Karpen 011 D: ...... Karpen 016 MULLEN PARK SUNDAY WORKSHOPS E: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ...... Zeis 014 • OGS Headquarters P-AM: GARDEN FRESH WINES ...... Zeis 124 • OGS Headquarters F: COMMERCIAL ...... Highsmith Union 223-224 • Registration P-PM: ARTISINAL BREAD BAKING ...... Karpen 006 • Registration University G: FRUIT PRODUCTION...... Humanities Lecture Hall Q-AM: INTRO TO FERMENTATION ...... Zeis 126 HIGHSMITH UNION• Lunch • Lunch Dining H: PRIMITIVE SKILLS ...... Mullen Park Q-PM: HOME TEMPEH PRODUCTION ...... Zeis 126 Hall I: FOOD PRESERVATION ...... Highsmith Union 221-222 Parking Lot 5 R-AM: BUILD YOUR OWN WOOD-FIRED OVEN ...... Karpen 006 FOUNDERS DRIVE App. 10 min. J: ...... Karpen 038 R-PM: FOOD AS MEDICINE...... Zeis 128 walk to Owen Parking Lot 1 to UNIVERSITY HALL K: HERBS ...... Owen 302 S-AM: DRY STACK STONE ...... Karpen 012 5 min. walk to S-PM: GROWING OYSTER MUSHROOMS ...... Zeis 124 Main Campus L: SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY ...... Robinson 228 Parking for speakers, sponsors, vendors, M: SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING ...... Robinson 217 T-AM: WILD BASKETS ...... Karpen 034 volunteers and VIP off Founders Drive N: COOKING ...... Karpen- The Laurel Forum T-PM: PLANT WALK...... Meet at Ramsey Library steps U-AM: BIOMASS GASIFICATION...... Karpen 033 O: ALL ABOUT POULTRY...... Zeis 123

To Future I-26, Broadway, and Downtown Asheville (1.5 miles to Downtown) 2 WT Weaver Blvd. 3 18th Annual Organic Growers School • Class Schedule Saturday March 5, 2011 18th Annual Organic Growers School • Class Schedule Sunday March 6, 2011 7:30 - 8:30 REGISTRATION • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange 7:30 - 8:30 REGISTRATION • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange 1B: Starting First 1A: Making Square Foot 1C: Determining 1D: Intro to Heritage 1A: Making Square Foot 1B: Starting First 1C: Determining 1D: What Chefs Want: Vegetable Garden Nitrogen Delivery and... Breed Pork Production Don’t Forget Vegetable Garden Nitrogen Delivery and... Don’t Forget Garden LIPINSKY AUD. Garden LIPINSKY AUD. KARPEN 016 SAT ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 KARPEN 016 SUN ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 the Half-Day the Half-Day 1E: Improving Home 1F: First Steps to 1G: Small Fruits, 1H: Why Primitive 1E: Improving Home 1F: Pollinator 1G: Small Fruits, 1H: Basic Cordage 9 am Performance in 9 am Starting a Small Farm Natives & Exotics Skills? MULLEN PARK Workshops! Performance in Conservation on Natives & Exotics (Rope-Making) Workshops! Comfort... ZEIS 014 Comfort... to Enterprise HU 223-224 HUMANITIES to ZEIS 014 HU 223-224 HUMANITIES MULLEN PARK 1I: Long Term Food 1L: Non-Native Invasive Please refer 1I: Long Term Food 1L: Taxes to Please refer 1J: Backyard Economics 1K: Herbal Glycerites 1J: Backyard Economics 1K: Herbal Glycerites 10:30 Storage: Preserving the : I.D and Control 10:30 Storage: Preserving the Management Tips KARPEN 038 OWEN 302 to Workshop KARPEN 038 OWEN 302 to Workshop Harvest HU 221-222 ROBINSON 228 Harvest HU 221-222 ROBINSON 228 session 1 descriptions on session 1 descriptions on 1N: Whole Grain 1O: Selecting for Body 1M: Water Wise Landscape 1M: Alternatives to 1N: Whole Grain 1O: Intro to Selecting Appalachian Breakfast Type in Chickens class descriptions page 10 & 11 class descriptions page 10 & 11 When it Rains ROB. 217 Invasive Exotics Appalachian Breakfast & Culling Your Breeding LAUREL FORUM ZEIS 123 are on Pages 6-9 are on Pages 6-9 ROBINSON 217 LAUREL FORUM Flock ZEIS 123 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange AM workshops run 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange AM workshops run 2A: BioIntensive 2B: Pest Management 2C: Climate Change, 2D: Bring Back the from 9 AM to 12:30 from 9 AM to 12:30 SAT Agriculture for Urban Options in the Home Soils, and Profit... Tongue: Whole-Animal PM with a half-hour SUN 2A: BioIntensive 2B: Pest Management 2C: Climate Change, 2D: Bring Back the PM with a half-hour Spaces LIPINSKY AUD. Garden ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 Utilization KARPEN 016 break at 10:30 AM. Agriculture for Urban Options in the Home Soils, and Profit... Tongue: Whole-Animal break at 10:30 AM. 11 am 11 am Spaces LIPINSKY AUD. Garden ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 Utilization KARPEN 016 2F: Seed Saving & 2G: Small Fruit 2E: Modern 2H: Making Felt Pouches Homesteading: Retooling Production .... for Production 2E: Modern 2F: Seed Saving & 2G: Pruning Small to P-AM: Garden Fresh 2H: Making Felt P-AM: Garden Fresh ZEIS 128 to Homesteading: Retooling Production... Fruit for Production the Tradition ZEIS 014 HU 223-224 HUMANITIES Wines Pouches ZEIS 128 Wines the Tradition ZEIS 014 HU 223-224 HUMANITIES 12:30 2I: Canning Jams 2J: Real Life Forest 2K: Stocking Herbal 2L: Taxes to Management 12:30 Q-AM: Introduction to 1L: Non-Native Invasive Q-AM: Introduction to HU 221-222 Medicine...OWEN 302 Tips ROBINSON 228 2I: Canning Jams 2J: Real Life Forest 2K: Stocking Herbal session 2 Gardening KARPEN 038 Fermentation Plants: I.D and Control Fermentation session 2 Gardening KARPEN 038 2M: Water Wise HU 221-222 Medicine..OWEN 302 ROBINSON 228 2N: Gourmet Food in a 2O: Pastured Poultry class descriptions R-AM: Build Your Own R-AM: Build Your Own Landscaping II: Dealing 2N: Gourmet Food in a 2O: Basic Chick Care Wood-Fired Flash LAUREL FORUM Nutrition ZEIS 123 are on Pages 6-9 Wood-Fired 2M: Sustainable Site class descriptions with Drought ROB. 217 Oven Design...ROBINSON 217 Flash LAUREL FORUM ZEIS 123 Oven are on Pages 6-9 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange S-AM: Dry Stack Stone 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange S-AM: Dry Stack in the Landscape Stone in the 3D: Year-Round SAT 3A: The Good, the Bad, 3B: Heirloom Seeds: 3C: What’s in Your 3A:The Good, the 3B: Heirloom Seeds: 3C: What’s in Your 3D: Year-Round Grazing Landscape and Alternative Forages T-AM: Microbes Rule: and the Ugly Sow, Savor, Save Compost? Bad, and the Ugly Sow, Savor, Save Compost? and Alternative Forages for Beef Biochar, Low Till SUN for Beef Cattle T-AM: Wild Baskets 2 pm LIPINSKY AUD. ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 LIPINSKY AUD ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 KARPEN 016 and Innovative KARPEN 016 U-AM: Biomass 3E: Small-Scale Wind 3F: Equipment for 3G: Organic Heirloom 3H: Introduction to Cover 2 pm to 3E: Small-Scale Wind 3F: Equipment for 3G: Organic Heirloom 3H: Introduction to Gasification Energy for Farms... Diversified Vegetable and Antique Apple Tracking U-AM: Biomass to Energy for Farms... Diversified Vegetable and Antique Apple Tracking 3:30 ZEIS 014 Production HU 223-224 Production HUMANITIES MULLEN PARK Gasification ZEIS 014 Production HU 223-224 Production HUMANITIES MULLEN PARK 3L: Mycoforestry: session 3 3I:Small-Scale Grain 3J: Urban Permaculture 3K: Traditional Chinese 3:30 3I:Small-Scale Grain 3L: Mycoforestry: PM workshops run Mushroom Cultivation & 3J: Urban Permaculture 3K: Traditional Chinese Production & Storage KARPEN 038 Medicine OWEN 302 Production & Storage Mushroom Cultivation & from 2 PM to 5:30 Applications ROB.228 session 3 KARPEN 038 Medicine OWEN 302 HU 221-222 PM workshops run HU 221-222 Applications ROB. 228 PM with a half-hour 3N: The Restorative from 2 PM to 5:30 break at 3:30 PM. 3M: Sustainable Site 3O: Basic Poultry class descriptions 3M: Water Wise Landscape 3N: Raw! 3O: From Egg to Table class descriptions Gluten-Free Approach Health Management Design... ROBINSON 217 PM with a half-hour When it Rains ROB.217 LAUREL FORUM ZEIS 123 LAUREL FORUM ZEIS 123 are on Pages 6-9 break at 3:30 PM. are on Pages 6-9 3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange 3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break • Visit Exhibits and Seed Exchange P-PM: Artisan Bread Baking 4A: Beginning Beekeeping 4B: Heirloom Apples 4C: Myco-Remediation 4A: Beginning Beekeeping 4B: Heirloom Apples 4C: Myco-Remediation 4D: Starting a Dairy 4D: What Chefs Want: P-PM: Artisan Bread Chemical-Free Apiary and Your Edible Yard of Contaminated Soil Share Program Chemical-Free Apiary and Your Edible Yard of Contaminated Soil SUN Q-PM: Home Tempeh SAT KARPEN 016 Baking KARPEN 011 LIPINSKY AUD ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 011 LIPINSKY AUD ROBINSON 125 KARPEN 016 Production 4 pm 4 pm 4F: First Steps to 4G: Using Small Fruit to 4H: Making Fire by 4E: Energy Policy Panel 4F: Pollinator 4G: Using Small Fruit to 4H: Making Fire by Q-PM: Home Tempeh 4E: Energy Policy Panel R-PM: Food as Production Starting a Small Farm Friction MULLEN PARK ZEIS 014 Conservation... Diversify... HUMANITIES Friction MULLEN PARK ZEIS 014 Diversify... HUMANITIES Medicine to HU 223-224 to Enterprise HU 223-224 R-PM: Food as Medicine 4I: Charcuterie: 4J: Charles Darwin’s 4K: Growing an Herb 4L: Positive Impact S-PM: Growing Oyster 4I: Charcuterie: 4J: Charles Darwin’s 4K: Growing an Herb 4L: Positive Impact 5:30 Fancy Name for Meat Earthworms Forestry in Appalachia S-PM: Growing Oyster 5:30 Fancy Name for Meat Earthworms Forestry in Appalachia Mushrooms Tea Garden OWEN 302 Preservation HU 221-222 KARPEN 038 ROBINSON 228 Mushrooms Preservation HU 221-222 KARPEN 038 OWEN 302 ROBINSON 228 session 4 session 4 T-PM: Plant Walk 4N: Secrets from the 4M: Alternatives to 4N: Secrets from the 4O: Matching Poultry class descriptions T-PM: Wild Baskets 4M: Water Wise 4O: Secrets of Marketing class descriptions Landscaping II: Dealing Seasonal School... Invasive Exotics Seasonal School... Genetics ... ZEIS 123 are on Pages 6-9 Your Poultry Products are on Pages 6-9 4 ROBINSON 217 LAUREL FORUM with Drought ROB.217 LAUREL FORUM ZEISS 123 5 CLASS SESSIONS AND TRACK NAMES CLASS SESSIONS AND TRACK NAMES

TRACK A: MISCELLANEOUS 2C: Climate Change, Soils, and Profit through Soil Carbon TRACK E: APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY TRACK G: FRUIT PRODUCTION Management 1E: Improving Home Performance in Comfort, Health, 1A: Making A Square Foot Garden Doug Ruley, Climate Law Consultants and Laura Lengnick PhD, 1G: Small Fruits, Natives & Exotics Ron Arps, Vegenui Warren Wilson College Safety & Efficiency Isaac Savage, Home Energy Partners Richard Moyer, King College Learn how to make your home safer, healthier, more comfortable, and more Avoid the pitfalls of a first time garden by learning the principles of the In this session, a soil scientist and an environmental lawyer will outline the In this session we will cover how to identify disease resistant and locally efficient! From insulation to windows, to geo-thermal heating and cooling method, developed by Mel Bartholomew. In this impacts to southeast agriculture from climate change, how to increase your adapted fruits, start production, and market fresh fruits profitably. equipment, this class will illustrate the most common home performance session, a garden will be constructed from framing to planting. farm’s resiliency and soil carbon content, plus possibilities and requirements Sustainable methods will be covered, including water conservation and problems and remedies. guilds for healthier systems and risk management. 2A: BioIntensive Agriculture for Urban Spaces for increasing your profits through earning offset credits for better on-farm Angel Cruz, Ecology Action soil carbon management. 2E: Modern Homesteading: Retooling the Tradition 2G: Pruning Small Fruit for Prolific Production Grow Biointensive is a small-scale way of growing food that focuses on 3C: What’s in Your Compost? Brian Rosa, NCDENR Phillip & Erin Ackerman-Leist, Authors Walter Harrill, Imladris Farm building soil fertility. Learn the basics of the method and how to get 2-4x Heavy metal contamination of bagged compost is the new buzz among Ecological constraints, economic struggles, sociological pressures, new What’s the hardest part of growing fruit? Cutting it all down! Join us for a the yields per unit area with just a fraction of the water, using this method. growers. Learn how compost becomes contaminated, who this affects, and technologies, and old wisdom—the American homesteading tradition is class in pruning small fruits. We’ll focus on learning how the plants grow and how you can become informed before introducing problems in your soils. shifting. Portraits of a variety of homesteading ventures help one see the reproduce, so that you can understand why to make each cut. 3A: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Attracting and possibilities, whether it’s “back to the land” or “back to the yard.” Managing Beneficial Insects in the Home Garden 4C: Myco-Remediation of Contaminated Soil 3G: Organic Heirloom and Antique Apple Production Patryk Battle, Sparkling Earth Farm Tradd Cotter, Mushroom Mountain LLC 3E: Small-Scale Wind Energy for Farms, Homes, & Businesses Ron & Suzanne Joyner, Big Horse Creek Farm Mike Uchal Appalachian State University Design your garden using IPM and farmscaping: selecting plants and borders Mushrooms native to the southeastern US are capable of destroying Apple trees are an exciting addition to a small farm or home landscape. that feed and shelter beneficial insects. This will create the balance that pathogens and disassembling complex compounds, harmful , and Wind can be an organic fuel for your energy needs. Do you have a resource? Come learn about organic production and heirloom and antique apple takes care of 90% of your pest problems. We will cover organic solutions for dangerous molecules in soil and water. Learn how these amazing fungi work, What types of wind turbines are available? How much do they cost? Who can varieties from the experts at Big Horse Creek Farm. the remaining 10%. install one? Are there incentives? Mike will cover these issues and more. and how to develop a myco-remediation project to suit your needs. 4G: Using Small Fruit to Diversify Your Marketing Mix 4A: Beginning Beekeeping: Your Chemical-Free Apiary 4E: Energy Policy Panel Annie Perkinson, Flying Cloud Farm Cindy Jordan, Jordan Blackley Farm TRACK D: LIVESTOCK Facilitated by Ned Ryan Doyle, SEE Expo, Richard Freudenberger, Small fruits are a high-value that are relatively easy to grow with This session will offer an overview of what is required to begin keeping 1D: Intro to Heritage Breed Pork Production Back Home Magazine, and Mike Uchal, Appalachian State University minimal pest pressure. Adding nutritious and delicious small fruits to your honeybees responsibly. We will discuss pests and diseases that affect the (SATURDAY ONLY) This session provides an overview of energy resources, technologies, and marketing mix will delight your customers. honeybee and outline natural treatment strategies. policies designed to evaluate the impact of fossil fuel, renewable energy, Jeannette Beranger, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy nuclear and hydrogen technologies and how public policies can be used to Heritage pigs are the “darlings” of master chefs across the country. Learn influence their development. TRACK H: PRIMITIVE SKILLS TRACK B: GARDENING about the diverse breeds, how they fit into sustainable farming systems, and Natalie Bogwalker, Firefly Gathering how to take advantage of their unique marketing potential. 1H: Why Primitive Skills? 1B: Starting Your First Vegetable Garden TRACK F: COMMERCIAL FARMERS In this session, Natalie will demonstrate basic primitive skills and discuss Elizabeth Ayers, NC Cooperative Extension SUNDAY CHANGE TO 1D: What Chefs Want: A No-Nonsense why these skills are still relevant to modern life. This session will cover things you need to know when starting your first 1F: The First Steps to Starting a Small Farm Enterprise Perspective Kris Reid, Chef Tammara Cole-Talley, NC State University vegetable garden. Elizabeth will discuss site selection, soil preparation, Marketing your local meat to chefs is a different ball game than working SUNDAY CHANGE TO 1H: Basic Cordage (Rope-Making) You have a great business idea, now how do you get it off the ground? what to plant when, and how to grow some of your favorite vegetables. the retail consumer market. Learn what trained culinarians expect of Denton Bragg This session will cover the first steps of getting started, including business meat products, and why the stakes are high for local producers to provide Learn basic techniques for making cordage, along with a wealth of 2B: Pest Management Options in the Home Garden regulations, taxes, labor considerations, and managing healthy controllable consistent, quality, and honest service to chefs. information about the fiber plants growing wild in our ecosystem. Linda Blue, NC Cooperative Extension growth. Even the healthiest home garden will encounter insects, diseases, and 2D: Bring Back the Tongue: What Farmers and Eaters 2H: Making Felt Pouches Jamie Spark weeds. In this session we will discuss some strategies for preventing and SUNDAY CHANGE TO 1F: Pollinator Conservation on Farms Should Know about Whole-Animal Utilization Learn the ancient art of feltmaking! Transform a pile of sheeps wool into controlling problems in the home garden. (See description on 4F) Casey McKissick, NC Choices and William Dissen, The Market Place a beautiful pouch and learn principles of feltmaking that will help you 3B: Heirloom Seeds: Sow, Savor, Save This session will discuss the benefits to farmers, consumers and chefs when 2F: Seed Saving & Production as a Small Farm Enterprise continue with your own felting projects at home. Ira Wallace, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange buying and utilizing odd cuts and whole animals, including poultry, beef, Ira Wallace, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange pork and lamb. Basic cutting and cooking techniques will be demonstrated 3H: Introduction to Tracking Clint Corley The popularity of heirlooms has increased enormously over the last decade. Learn about seed saving and seed production on your farm. Discover how and meats sampled. Learn about the beauty, diversity, and history of unique heirloom vegetable on-farm seed saving is a viable diversification strategy. Hear about seed Become a beginning woodland detective as you learn basic skills in reading varieties. Then, learn how to save their seeds and help to preserve companies interested in contracting for seed directly with farmers. signs of animal activity, and assembling clues to discern details about the 3D: Year-Round Grazing and Alternative Forages for Beef life of the animal. biodiversity through your gardening. Cattle Dr. Matt Poore, NC State University 3F: Equipment for Diversified Vegetable Production: 4B: Heirloom Apples and Your Incredible, Edible Yard Learn to manage pastures and forage to provide a year-round grass-based Profiles 4H: Making Fire by Friction Alex Kilgore Chip Hope, Western Piedmont Community College diet for beef cattle. We will discuss the changing nutritional needs during Daniel Parson & Alex Brown, Full Sun Farm The most fundamental of skills, friction fire is critical to surviving and Turn yours into the “Incredible Edible Yard.” Learn about a variety of the year, , alternative forages, and options to improve Appropriate equipment for your farm operation is key for a successful thriving in the wilderness. In this hands-on class, you will learn how to make heirloom herbs, flowers, and fruits—especially heirloom apples—and pasture fertility. organic farm. Learn from two organic growers about the equipment they a fire using a simple hand-made bow drill. and gardening practices to help you start your journey into 4D: What Chefs Want: A No-Nonsense Perspective use and why it works for their system. General maintenance will also be sustainable living. discussed. (SATURDAY) Kris Reid, Chef TRACK I: FOOD PRESERVATION Marketing your local meat to chefs is a different ball game than working 4F: Pollinator Conservation on Farms 1I: Long Term Food Storage: Preserving the Harvest TRACK C: SOILS the retail consumer market. Learn what trained culinarians expect of Debbie Roos, NC State University Kathleen Lamont, Back to Basics meat products, and why the stakes are high for local producers to provide Learn about important pollinators in NC and how they can help improve 1C: Determining Nitrogen Delivery and Cost Using an Learn how to pack and store grains, beans, and rice for the long term. Also consistent, quality, and honest service to chefs. yields on your farm. Look at actual specimens and learn how to provide Organic Fertilizer and Cover Crop Calculator learn preservation methods of canning, dehydrating, root cellaring, vacuum forage habitat and nesting sites for these important beneficial animals. Julie Grossman, NC State University SUNDAY CHANGE TO 4D: Starting a Dairy Share Program sealing, and freezing, while Kathleen explains which foods lend themselves One challenge in organic agriculture is determining which fertilizer and Agatha Grimsley, Rolling Fork Farm SUNDAY CHANGE TO 4F: The First Steps to Starting a Small to which method. cover crop combinations provide the most efficient nitrogen for your needs. Farm Enterprise (See description on 1F) Selling raw milk in most states is illegal but consumer demand for milk is 2I: Canning Jams Martha Vining, Blue Ridge Food Ventures Using a free tool, this hands-on workshop will help you determine how to get high. Learn about starting a dairy share program on your farm, including cow the most nitrogen for the lowest cost. Note: Bring a laptop if you have one. care, economics, and the legal parameters. This class will take you through the basic canning procedures for making fruit jam. Equipment, ingredients, and techniques will be covered. No 6 previous canning experience required. 7 CLASS SESSIONS AND TRACK NAMES CLASS SESSIONS AND TRACK NAMES

3I: Small-Scale Grain Production & Storage 4K: Growing an Herb Tea Garden 3M: Sustainable Site Design and Landscaping SATURDAY TRACK O: ALL ABOUT POULTRY Sara Jane & Jamie Davis, A Way of Life Farm Juliet Blankespoor, Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Rob Dull, Snow Creek Landscaping LLC 1O: The Rationale of Selecting for Body Type in Chickens In this session we will discuss garden-scale cultivation of common herbal tea Rob will cover the “full circle” approach to sustainable site design and Small scale production of grains for self-sufficiency and commercial sale is Don Schrider, Poultry Specialist/Instructor (SATURDAY ONLY) a hot topic in Western North Carolina. Learn the opportunities and barriers ingredients, from germination to harvest and medicinal uses. landscaping from initial site visit to long term maintenance. Topics include to successful grain production within a diversified rotation from one local site analysis, limits of disturbance, slope issues, storm water management, Chickens and other species are good at what they do because of how they farming couple who have experience with amaranth, quinoa, corn, oats, TRACK L: SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY erosion control, and native plantings. are built. What does body type tell us about ancestry? How can you select rye, wheat, and dry beans. your rare breed flock for the standard and the breed’s historic job? 1L: Non-Native Invasive Plants: I.D and Control 4M: Alternatives to Invasive Exotics 4I: Charcuterie: A Fancy Name for Simple Meat Preservation Bob Gale WNC Alliance (SATURDAY ONLY) Debbie Green, Buncombe County Master Gardener 2O: Pastured Poultry Nutrition (SATURDAY ONLY) William Dissen, The Market Place Restaurant Participants will learn to identify the most common non-native invasive Invasive exotics dominate many southern landscapes. We will review Anne Fanatico, Appalachian State University Looking for more ways to use sustainable, local meats in your diet? Dress up plants, why they are problematic, and manual to chemical methods of resources for identifying desirable native alternatives for popular exotic In this session you will learn the nutrition needs of birds raised on pasture. your seasonal restaurant menu? Meat preservation is a great way to get the control. Some discussion will also be given regarding uses for these plants. species. Entice clients with these easy-to-grow, easy-maintenance trees, We will discuss foodstuffs used in specialty poultry production and alternate most out of your local protein purchases, and to bring out fantastic flavors. shrubs, and herbaceous plants. feeding strategies such as whole grain and choice feeding. In this session, Chef William Dissen will present the history and practice of SUNDAY CHANGE TO 1L: Sustainable Forestry: Taxes to SUNDAY CHANGE TO 1M: Alternatives to Invasive Exotics charcuterie, and discuss its place in the modern kitchen. Management Tips (see description below) (see description above) 3O: Basic Poultry Health Management (SATURDAY ONLY) TRACK J: PERMACULTURE 2L: Sustainable Forestry: Taxes to Management Tips Jeannette Beranger, Amercian Livestock Breeds Conservancy Mark Megalos & Rick Hamilton, NC State University SUNDAY CHANGE TO 2M: Sustainable Site Design and This session will teach you to favor pro-active care of your poultry, and you 1J: Backyard Economics: Unleashing the Potential This session will cover the key aspects of land, state, and federal taxes as Landscaping (see description above) will learn techniques to prevent health problems in your flock. From housing Chuck Marsh, Useful Plants Nursery considerations to special challenges, these principles will apply to any size they relate to timber growers. We will also overview sustainable forestry SUNDAY CHANGE TO 3M: Water Wise Landscaping: When it Learn to realize your landscape’s potential to support your family’s needs tips of use to typical landowners. poultry flock. for food, medicine, and nutrition. Permaculture practices for cultivating Rains (see description on Page 8) SUNDAY CHANGE TO 2L: Non-Native Invasive Plants: I.D 4O: Matching Poultry Genetics to the Production System biological abundance and personal self-reliance will also have significant SUNDAY CHANGE TO 4M: Water Wise Landscaping II: positive benefits on your financial well-being. and Control Bob Gale, WNC Alliance Anne Fanatico, Appalachian State University (SATURDAY ONLY) Participants will learn to identify the most common non-native invasive Dealing with Drought (see description on Page 8) Everyone interested in poultry should have a basic understanding of poultry 2J: Real Life plants, why they are problematic, and manual to chemical methods of genetics. Learn how hybrid breeds are developed, their benefits and Zev Friedman, Living Systems Design control. Some discussion will also be given regarding uses for these plants. TRACK N: COOKING drawbacks, and the genetics of standard breeds. This will inform your work Forest is the default ecosystem of our region. Come learn practical to develop a sustainable flock on your farm. techniques to work with, rather than against nature, by learning how to 3L: Mycoforestry: Mushroom Cultivation & Applications 1N: Whole Grain Appalachian Breakfast grow food, medicine, timber, and fiber as part of natural forest cycles. Tradd Cotter, Mushroom Mountain LLC Barbara Swell, Log Cabin Cooking Classes CLASS LIMIT=25 SUNDAY TRACK O: ALL ABOUT POULTRY This session will cover beginner and advanced techniques of mushroom Lets bring back some almost-forgotten regional breakfast foods for vintage 3J: Urban Permaculture cultivation including habitat restoration, , natural methods for wood cook stoves or the modern kitchen. Recipes made from locally grown Shawn Jadrnicek, Clemson University 1O: Introduction to Selecting & Culling your Breeding Flock increasing yields, and disease and insect vector management. farm products will be quick, healthy, (mostly) gluten-free, and fun to Don Schrider, Poultry Specialist/Instructor (SUNDAY ONLY) This session will include a photographic tour of urban permaculture prepare. projects, and Shawn will discuss a wide array of design elements including 4L: Positive Impact Forestry in Southern Appalachia You will learn to identify your productive birds and select your best breeders. We will discuss the set-up of your breeding pen, culling, and leave rainwater harvesting, passive solar, , vermiculture, poultry, Rob Lamb, Forest Stewards, Inc. 2N: Gourmet Food in a Flash soldierfly/grub production, edible fungi, food forestry, recycled materials, Diana S. McCall, private cooking instructor CLASS LIMIT=25 time for Q&A. This session will include a discussion of stewardship strategies for landowners and more! in the Southern Appalachians. Topics will include how to achieve common Come to this class for inspirational ideas that keep your time in the kitchen 2O: Basic Chick Care (SUNDAY ONLY) to a minimum but your delight and nutrition at the table to a maximum. stewardship goals such as forest health, restoration, diversity, and wildlife Matt John, Poultryman Supply Company 4J: Charles Darwin’s Earthworms Bill Whipple Learn creative ways to make the best of your labor and ingredients. Bill Whipple, in classic character, will cover “groundbreaking” data on the habitat with consideration towards income opportunities and savings. Chicks, ducklings, goslings or poults need very specific care for a successful formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, and provide 3N: The Restorative Gluten-Free Approach beginning. We will cover topics such as preparing for your chicks, the first information on how earthworms can help you. TRACK M: SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPING (SATURDAY ONLY) week of life, and the transition from baby to adult. Donna Price, The Dirty Hoe Landscaping, & Rachel Brownlee, Health 1M: Water Wise Landscaping: When it Rains 3O: From the Egg to the Table (SUNDAY ONLY) TRACK K: HERBS & Nutrition Coach CLASS LIMIT=25 Dianne Palmer-Quay, Experienced Poultry Farmer Randy Burroughs, Landscape Architect Gluten free cooking for restorative health focuses on nutrient dense cooking 1K: Herbal Glycerites Mimi Hernandez, Herbalist In this session, we will discuss facultative wetland plants and useful Dianne raises a backyard poultry flock in the full sense: she breeds, hatches, and whole foods. This session will provide recipes and cooking demos raises, and even processes her birds on the farm. From beginning to end, Herbal glycerites provide a sweet and effective way to extract the medicinal structures that promote groundwater recharge such as rain gardens, drip with opportunities for Q&A. Our goal is to shed light on the vast diversity this session will provide practical info on how you can provide eggs and meat benefits of fresh aromatic plants, and offer support for the digestive and strips, and vegetative swales. We will discuss plants’ varying tolerances for possible within the gluten free diet. for your family. nervous system. They can also be made alcohol free. Come make some with wet conditions and learn to observe examples in nature to problem solve in Mimi! the landscape. SUNDAY CHANGE TO 3N: Raw! 4O: Secrets of Marketing your Poultry Products Michael Gentry, Everyone Cooks CLASS LIMIT=25 (SUNDAY ONLY) 2K: Stocking the Herbal Medicine Cabinet 2M: Water Wise Landscaping II: Dealing with Drought Summer will introduce the most balanced approach to eating a raw diet and Jim Adkins, Center for Poultry Ceara Foley, Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism Randy Burroughs, Landscape Architect share her experience of eating 100% raw. Food demos will include nut milk, Learn the necessary skills to sell your poultry products. What exactly are the This session will teach you what plants you might use from your yard and In this session we will discuss basic plant physiology and the typical cultured nut “cheese”, a seasonal “pasta” dish, and an easy versatile pie. garden before turning to over-the-counter medications. Practical herbal laws governing the sale of your products in North Carolina? You will discover plant hydraulic system. We’ll cover the ins and outs of and solutions for common complaints such as nausea, headaches, colds, burns, 4N: Secrets from the Seasonal School of Culinary Arts the networking strategies that we can use together to market our local, rainwater catchments, and zero in on plants’ varying adaptations to drought sores, and more. Susi Gott Seguret, CCP CLASS LIMIT=25 sustainable poultry products in the WNC region. conditions. We’ll also learn to observe examples in nature to solve problems A recipe from each season will be our starting point for discussion, in the landscape. 3K: Traditional Chinese Medicine: Herbs and Food Therapy experimentation, and tasting. From winter’s truffles and root vegetables Whitney Williams, Source for Well Being through spring’s ramps and wild greens, summer’s opulent bounty, and Learn the basics of digestion according to Chinese Medicine. It is then that autumn’s nuts and apples, possibilities are infinite. we can start to understand and choose food and herbs according to their nature to maximize health and vitality.

8 9 SATURDAY HALF-DAY HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS SUNDAY HALF-DAY HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS MORNING AFTERNOON MORNING 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM AFTERNOON 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM 2:00 PM – 5:30 PM WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 1/2 HOUR BREAK AT 10:30 WORKSHOP 1/2 HOUR BREAK AT 3:30 1/2 HOUR BREAK AT 10:30 1/2 HOUR BREAK AT 3:30

P-AM: Garden Fresh Wines ZEIS 124 P-AM: Garden Fresh Wines ZEIS 124 P-PM: Artisan Bread Baking Methods KARPEN 006 P-AM: Artisan Bread Baking Methods KARPEN 006 (See description on previous page.) Kaleb Wallace, Sustainable Skills Instructor CLASS LIMIT = 25 Pat Battle, Sparkling Earth Farm CLASS LIMIT=12 (See description on previous page.) FULL Learn how to make fruit, herb and honey wines from the garden, hands- This class will provide you with the skills and knowledge required to on! With a focus on easy home brewing, this workshop will cover the make artisan bread. We will discuss the science of bread, ingredients, Q-AM: Introduction to Fermentation ZEIS 126 Q-PM: Home Tempeh Production ZEIS 126 basics including: equipment, sterilization, and bottling. We will also tools, technique, shaping, proofing, and baking. We will also talk (See description on previous page.) (See description on previous page.) present some additional recipes. about capturing and maintaining wildFULL starters, and bake our bread in a mobile wood-fired oven. Bring a 16-18 inch flat bottom bowl, if you R-AM: Build Your Own Wood-Fired Oven KARPEN 006 R-PM: Food as Medicine ZEIS 128 have access to one. (See description on previous page.) FULL (See description on previous page.) Q-AM: Introduction to Fermentation ZEIS 126 Q-PM: Home Tempeh Production ZEIS 126 Michael Gentry, Everyone Cooks CLASS LIMIT=25 Chad Oliphant, Smiling Hara Tempeh CLASS LIMIT=15 S-AM: Dry Stack Stone in the Landscape KARPEN 012 S-PM: Growing Oyster Mushrooms ZEIS 124 Explore, taste, and create with fermentation recipes from local kisk Fresh tempeh is not only healthier for you, but it tastes better too! (See description on previous page.) (See description on previous page.) to various kimchis, sweet and savory nut seed dips, and authentic How can you get your hands on the freshest tempeh ever? Make it dosas. Cultured classics such as sauerkraut, bran pickles and whey yourself! Join production experts from Asheville’s Smiling Hara Tempeh fermentation will also be included. as they walk you through tempeh as a process, and unveil the many T-AM: Wild Baskets KARPEN 034 T-PM: Recognizing Trees Before the Leaves different tempeh products you can create at home. (See description on previous page.) CoreyPine Shane, Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine MEET ON RAMSEY LIBRARY STEPS R-AM: Build Your Own Wood-Fired Oven KARPEN 006 R-PM: Food as Medicine ZEIS 128 We see trees all year, but most only have leaves half that time. Tom Trout, Vesta Masonry Stove Inc CLASS LIMIT=15 Mary Lane, Divine Nourishment CLASS LIMIT=25 Learning how to recognize trees during the winter and early spring just Learn to make a cob oven from local clay and straw and some In this hands-on class we will explore the medicinal qualities of food takes a little knowledge of what to look for - buds, leaf scars and even firebrick. In this hands-on demonstration, the class will fabricate an and their ability to support body, mind, and spirit, as well as learn how the bark, skills that aren’t too hard to learn. Recognizing what trees oven using information, design and materials from the preindustrial to weave healing foods into a sustainable lifestyle. We will create and are around in winter helps identify what kind of soil is there and what share a simple meal that embodies this integration, and experience era. Bring coveralls or an apron and roll up pants and plan to get plants are likely to grow well in that area, or what kind of plants are dirty. food medicine without denying ourselves the pleasure of a delicious likely to come up in the summer. FULL seasonal meal.

U-AM: Biomass Gasification and Swedish Candle There will be no U-PM class offered S-AM: Dry Stack Stone in the Landscape KARPEN 012 S-PM: Growing Oyster Mushrooms ZEIS 124 Demonstration KARPEN 033 David Reed, Author & Stone Mason CLASS LIMIT=30 Leslie Sigmon, Emma Farms CLASS LIMIT=25 (See description on previous page.) Stones in the garden bring beauty and harmony to the landscape In this workshop, you will learn by doing and discover a simple way to in any season. Here is a chance to be inspired and gather practical grow oyster mushrooms using laundry baskets, straw, newspapers, and information using dry-stack techniques from a local artisan, author, other commonly available materials. Friday, March 4th Workshop: Hands On and On the Farm and stone mason. FRIDAY, MARCH 4th WORKSHOP: Heritage Poultry Intensive • 1pm-5pm T-AM: Microbes Rule: Biochar, Low Till and Innovative T-PM: Wild Baskets KARPEN 034 Crain Family Farm, Swannanoa, NC • $25 per person (Minimum 10 participants) Cover Crops (Saturday only) CLASS LIMIT=30 KARPEN 034 Steven Ayres CLASS LIMIT= 10 Jim Adkins, Center for Poultry, Matt John, Poultryman Supply Company & Don Schrider, Poultry Specialist/Instructor Dr. Ron Morse, Virginia Tech & Jon Nilsson, East Coast Compost Participants in this workshop will learn to identify, harvest, and use Three years of trials showed a biochar-based inoculant, minimum materials from the garden and woods to make a single ribbed basket. This workshop is designed for those who are raising or are interested in raising heritage poultry for sustainable farming, tillage, and incorporation of legume-grass residues significantly Attendees should bring hand pruners or craft scissors if possible. exhibition, and preservation. You will learn how to properly identify heritage breeds, how to select for meat qualities and increased early and total yield of tomatoes. Session will also include: FULL a display of newly developed small farm implements, new biochar rate of growth, how to select for egg production, and how to choose ongoing breeding stock.Silent W Auctione will also cover the basics of research and state-of-the-art cover crop systems that increase nutrient FULL genetics and breeding. All of these points will be covered as we tour a model farm and view live birds that will provide hands- and water use efficiency. on examples.

U-AM Biomass Gasification and Swedish Candle There will be no U-PM class offered. Demonstration James Nowack CLASS LIMIT= 15 KARPEN 033 Southeastern womens ad Advance your knowledge about using fire. Learn gasification history from 1600’s to present. Discuss gasification’s practical applications and impacts on climate change. Participate in assembling biomass gasifier. Operate this gasifier to convert and refine solid biomass fuels into clean fuel gas suitable for engines, electric generators and furnaces or ovens.

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12 13 About Campus The 2011 Organic Growers School Presents the Soilbuilder Sponsors 7th Annual Children’s Program Seed & Plant Exchange: Seed saving and plant exchanges are key steps to preserving genetic diversity and protecting regionally • The Children’s Program will be adapted varieties. The popular seed and plant exchange table is based out of the Zeis Building Lobby located in the Highsmith Union Building. Thanks to Lee Barnes throughout the day. for coordinating the Exchange, and for providing a great bank • Lost someone? Come to OGS of seeds for OGS attendees. Please remember that this is an Headquarters in the HU Building. EXCHANGE not a straight-up giveaway, so thanks to all who brought seeds labeled and packaged for trade. 8:30 AM Registration and drop off 9:00 AM Welcome Circle & Communications Corner: Check out the Communications Corner located in the Highsmith Union Building. This is the place to post Introductions notices about job vacancies, seeking employment, equipment MORNING SESSION: 9:30am - 11 am or supplies to buy or sell, and upcoming special events. (There is paper and markers for your use.) Also note the free literature CHILDREN’S YOGA: Children are introduced to the joy of A hydroponic and table close by, where you can pick up an assortment of yoga and meditation. Lissa Juedemann organic gardening publications, and flyers at no charge. supply store located INSECTS- THE SMALL MAJORITY: Children will look at in downtown Vendor Talks different kinds of insects and learn about how they live and Asheville. We carry grow, plus how they are connected to us. Tim Forrest, Bug a full line of organic nutrients, soils, and Camp soil amendments for the home and 12:30-1:00 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Karpen 033 commercial grower. Money Does Grow on Trees Ren Heard, Lake Tree Farm This session will include an overview of how an organic farm, using FOLLOW YOUR FOOD FROM SEED TO STOMACH: Discover 828-253-4112 www.ashevilleag.com low tech tools, can grow 5 year ornamental cash crops that can how to turn ordinary items from the grocery store into food- [email protected] pay for more land or hi-tech tools with a minimal investment on producing plants.Sarah Bush, Edible Revolution small plots of land. Presentation will include pictures, techniques, 11:00 AM THE CATCH OF FALCONRY: Fly deep into the problems, and Ren will crunch the numbers that make this possible. exciting sport of falconry, birds of prey, with an expert 12:30-1:00 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Karpen 016 Falconer. Robert Goode The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Seaweeds and Humates Dr. T. L. Senn 12:30-2:00 PM LUNCH WITH PARENTS The are many different varieties of Seaweed and types of Humates. Dr. Senn has traveled the globe to find the best and also discovered 2:00 PM NATURE HUNT: Explore the UNCA campus and see the not so good and not so pretty! what you can collect as seasonal greens to feed the rabbits! Elise Fuller and M Rathsack 12:30-1:00 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY HU 3rd Floor Pinnancle Yoga for Growers Diane Saccone, Reems Creek Yoga 3:00 PM Snack Diane will discuss the benefits of yoga as the therapy for keeping Senn,Senn,and Senn, LLC farmers physically healthy during the growing season. AFTERNOON SESSION: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM 1-864-654-8020 www.naturesnog.com 1:00-1:30 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Karpen 033 RABBITS GALORE: Children will investigate the greens Financing Options for your Farmland Purchase collected from nature, feed the rabbits and learn how Natures NOG is a plant growth Bruce Arrington, Carolina Farm Credit rabbits are a food source themselves. Elise Fuller, Fuller enhancer combining the finest Family Farm Norwegian seaweed extracts and humic acid Bruce will discuss financing options when you are purchasing farm land. Topics covered include down payment requirements, credit derivatives. It provides the key hormones, MEET THE GOATS: Learn all about goats and try your hand factors, credit reports, and time for Q&A enzymes, sugars, elements, nutrients, vitamins, at milking. Dwain Swing, Oak Moon Farm and Creamery and minerals for optimum plant growth. 1:30-2:00 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Karpen 016 NATURE’S CRAFTS: Create a masterpiece using natural Analytical Testing Services for Medicinal Herbs products. M Rathsack, M’s School of Art Sarah Schober, ABTech Natural Products Laboratory The BioNetwork Natural Products Laboratory (NPL) offers analytical 5:00 PM CLOSING CIRCLE testing services for medicinal herbs. Our services help customers meet good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and Food and Drug 5:30 PM PARENTS PLEASE PICK UP YOUR CHILDREN** Administration (FDA) regulations for dietary supplements. Q&A to **The Organic Growers School Children’s Program is led follow a brief overview. almost entirely by the heroic efforts of volunteers. Please 1:30-2:00 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Karpen 006 be considerate and pick up your children on time. Not Seed Growing Opportunities with Sow True Seed only does this allow our volunteers to get back to their Peter Waskiwecz, Sow True Seed families, but also avoids your child feeling hurt when Peter will discuss the details of adding untreated and certified he or she is the only one left at the end of the day. The organic seed to regional growers’ crop lists. Topics will include Children’s Program Coordinator is given permission on expectations, contracts, maintaining varietal purity, selection, behalf of OGS to charge late parents for extra time. Friend Sponsors data collection, seed cleaning/processing and the time and space Thank you!!! French Broad Co-op • Hendersonville Community Co-op • Yellow Branch Cheese management of seed crops. 14 15 Organizers and Volunteers Exhibitors A special Thanks to all the dedicated folks who make the school happen! Be sure to check out our Trade Show Exhibitors, located in Alumni Hall within the HU Building! Also pay a visit The Organic Growers School Spring Conference is organized annually by the Organic Growers THANK YOU to the vendors in the overflow hall in Karpen Lobby. School INC, a 501c3 non profit organization. Your registration fee goes directly to funding this and other OGS educational programming. Please direct any correspondence to to our OGS Board of Directors 455 Research Dr. Mills River, NC 28759 ALUMNI HALL EXHIBITORS KARPEN LOBBY EXHIBITORS Growth Partners for ABTech Natural Products Laboratory Arthur Morgan School Organic Growers School Board of Directors: their major support Advanced Thermal Solutions Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine Tom Elmore, Thatchmore Farm of our program Asheville Local Foods Grow Towers USA Jeanine Davis, North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension Martin Webster expansion. BackHome Magazine Haiku Bamboo Nursery Joan Engelhardt, Winter Green BioBusiness Natural Products Laboratory Lorraine Plaxico Mary Lou Surgi, Blue Ridge Food Ventures Carolina Farm Credit MANNA FoodBank Ruth Gonzalez, Reems Creek Nursery & Landscaping Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Mountain Organic Research & Education Center Vannessa Campbell, Full Sun Farm Center for Environmental Farming Systems National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy Kathryn Beattie, Leading Green Distributing Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine Society of St. Andrew 2010 Organic Growers School Conference Track Leaders: Earth Fare Vermi-Cycle Organics Melinda Roberts, NC Cooperative Extension Winter-Green East Branch Ginger Linda Blue, NC Cooperative Extension Edible UpCountry Meredith Leigh McKissick, Organic Growers School Fifth Season Gardening Company Silent Auction Phillip Sanders, NC Cooperative Extension Firestorm Cafe and Books Sue Colucci, NC Cooperative Extension Fred C. Gloeckner Seed Co, Inc. Visit the Silent Auction and bid on great items Debbie Wood, NC Master Gardeners Association Laura Fine, NC Master Gardeners Association French Broad Organics Recycling donated by the businesses listed below. All auction proceeds benefit Organic Growers School Shawn Swartz, Warren Wilson College Greenlife Grocery educational programs. Marc Williams, Swannanoa School of Culinary Arts Healing Innovations SILENT AUCTION DONORS Jim Adkins, International Center for Poultry High Mowing Seeds Katrina Tobin ABTech Natural Products Laboratory Lake Tree Farms Acres, USA Locally Produced Events 2010 OGS Conference Presenters: Thanks to our 95+ presenters BackHome Magazine who have shared their time and expertise this weekend. Please see a Natural Forces LLC By Hand complete list of the 2011 Speakers’ Bios on pages 18-20. Natures NOG East Branch Ginger Perma-Guard Fay Cullen, INC. Thanks to our host, UNCA! Special shout-outs go to Bill Haggard, Ed Reems Creek Nursery & Landscaping Fifth Season Gardening Company Katz, Dr. Sally Wasileski and all the faculty in the Food for Thought river island apothecary Growing for Market Academic Cluster, Roger Penley, Sharon Lamotte, Holly Beveridge, and Seeds of Change High Mowing Organic Seeds Rick Brophy. Seven Springs Farm Hendersonville Community Co-op Hometown Seeds OGS Staff: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Natures NOG Meredith Leigh McKissick, Conference Coordinator Sow True Seed Patagonia Tara Starnes, Assistant Conference Coordinator Karen Vizzina, Registrar The Lord’s Acre Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Jodi Ford, Graphic Design Useful Plants Nursery Sow True Seed Wannamaker Seeds University of North Carolina Press If you are interested in joining Special Thanks to all of our sponsors, and to our wonderful us as a Growth Partner, please Wild Abundance Wannamaker Seeds volunteers! contact Meredith McKissick at Martin Webster [email protected] Winter-Green 16 AND MORE! 17 OGS 2011 Speaker Bios Rachel Brownlee graduated from the acclaimed Institute Anne Fanatico, Ph.D., teaches at Appalachian State University Chip Hope is an Instructor in the program for Integrative Nutrition, and began her Health and Nutrition in Sustainable Development. Research includes sustainable at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, NC. He is Philip and Erin Ackerman-Leist lived for nearly eight years in business with an emphasis on whole, nutrient-dense diets as a poultry production, raising flocks with high welfare and outdoor passionate about helping folks learn to grow more of their own a small cabin with no electricity or running water in Vermont vehicle for optimum and restorative health. access, free-choice feeding to make use of on-farm ingredients food and medicine. With his family, he operates Appalachian before building a larger off-grid home. Philip’s new book, Up and range, and poultry genetics, including American heritage Seeds Farm and Nursery, specializing in growing and selling open Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader, explores Tammara Cole-Talley is an Area Small Farm Management Agent breeds. Fanatico is interested in the integration of poultry into pollinated and heirloom plants. the American homesteading tradition and features Erin’s with North Carolina Cooperative Extension. She specializes in livestock and operations of small farms and local/ detailed illustrations. the managerial side of agriculture including finances, labor, regional food production. Shawn Jadrnicek’s experience includes organic farming, nursery taxes and farm planning. Tammara grew up on a small farm in production, homesteading, landscape design and installation Ron Arps has been a full-time organic gardener since 1999, Western North Carolina and continues to farm with her husband Tim Forrest has degrees in Entomology from the University of and aquaculture. Shawn is the founder of the when he returned from New Zealand where he was a WWOOF on and family. Florida and has been teaching in the Biology Department at Urban Permaculture Institute of the Southeast and is currently several organic farms. He has operated a CSA for twelve years, UNCA since 1996. the manager of the Student Organic Farm at Clemson University. sold produce at a farmers market, started a community garden Clint Corley is a Certified Wilderness Guide having completed a and organizes an annual group seed order. Year-Long Wilderness Immersion Program at the Teaching Drum Richard Freudenberger was former Research Director for The Lissa Juedemann is a Registered Yoga Teacher with 230 hours Outdoor School. He has also worked as a teacher/facilitator Mother Earth News and is currently Publisher and Technical with the Yoga Alliance; she has been teaching since 2002. Lissa Elizabeth Ayers is a native of Madison County, NC. She holds at several primitive skills events including Firefly in WNC and Editor for BackHome magazine. He is on the Technology Advisory lives and teaches yoga in Hendersonville, NC. Her favorite both a BS in Agriculture Education and an MS in Plant and Earthskills Rendezvous in GA, and as a counselor at several Committee for Appalachian State University and is the author of yoga partner (and teacher) is her five year old daughter. Lissa’s Environmental Science from Clemson University. She has worked nature-based Summer Camps. Alcohol Fuel: Making & Using Ethanol as Renewable Fuel. childrens’ classes encourage expression and centering with lots as a Madison County Cooperative Extension Agent for five years. of fun. Tradd Cotter, founder of Mushroom Mountain in Liberty, South Bob Gale is serving in his 13th year as Ecologist for the Western Jeannette Beranger is a Program Manager for American Carolina, has been studying the art of identifying and cultivating North Carolina Alliance. His work focuses on forest ecology Cindy Jordan is a Certified Naturally Grown beekeeper located Livestock Breeds Conservancy. She came to ALBC with 20+ years mushrooms for over 15 years in the Southeast. An increased in the region’s National Forests and National Parks, and on on a 6-acre farm in Candler, NC. She originally started keeping experience working with animals and uses the knowledge to plan understanding in Mycology, the study of fungi, has created a adjacent private lands. He is also involved with restoration bees to bring more pollinators to the farm, but beekeeping and implement ALBC breed conservation programs. At home she wealth of opportunities for humans to explore many aspects of projects and oversees WNCA’s invasive exotic plant control quickly became a passion. Jordan Blackley Farm offers maintains a heritage breeds farm with a focus on rare breed planetary healing. program. hive products, berries, rental properties, and educational chickens & horses. opportunities. Tamara Crain got into chickens as a fun backyard hobby, raising Debbie Green has been a Buncombe County Master Gardener Juliet Blankespoor has been sharing her love of plants by standard breed show chickens. As she has learned more, she’s since 2006. She is a longtime advocate of using native plants in Ron and Suzanne Joyner have been propagating and raising teaching about medicinal herbs and for over 18 years. marketed eggs, chicken meat, and turkey meat.. Chickens have home landscapes. apple trees at Big Horse Creek Farm for over 25 years. On She owns the Chestnut Herb Nursery specializing in medicinal been something Tamara’s family has done off and on for at least their off-grid farm they are dedicated to sustainable organic and native plants and is the director and primary instructor of three generations. Agatha Grimsley lives in Floyd, Virginia, with her husband, agriculture and small-scale renewable energy. the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine David, and their son Otis. They have a small farm on which they www. chestnutherbs.com, which offers all-outdoor, hands-on Angel Cruz has spent two years living and working in El Salvador raise beef, pork, and eggs on pasture, plus veggies, herbs, and Kathleen Lamont has extensive background in organic and courses. teaching Biointensive agriculture workshops and implementing mushrooms for market. They also milk two Jersey cows for their sustainable living practices. Kathleen is a homesteader who a pilot project for Biointensive community gardens. She also thirty-five-member Dairy Share program. grows organic vegetables, preserves her harvest, and raises Linda Blue is an Agricultural Extension Agent specializing in interned with John Jeavons, the founder of the Biointensive laying hens and a milk cow. Kathleen teaches what she knows Urban in Buncombe County. Her responsibilities Method, at Ecology Action’s research garden and is completing Julie Grossman is a soil science faculty member at NC State about self-reliance through her organization, Back to Basics. include all areas of home gardening as well as teaching and her GROW BIOINTENSIVE teacher certification. specializing in soil fertility of organic cropping systems, coordinating the Extension Master Gardener volunteer program. emphasizing improved management of plant-soil-microbe Mary Lane is a chef and the author of “Divine Nourishment.” She has been with Extension for 24 years and has gardened in Jamie and Sara Jane Davis own and operate A Way of relationships. Central to Julie’s teaching toolbox are She teaches seasonal cooking classes integrating the pleasures several locations around North Carolina. Life Farm, a small, permaculture-based farm in Northeast experiential learning strategies that help her students to of food, wisdom of the Earth, healing of our bodies, and the Rutherford County where they raise vegetables and pastured address public needs while developing soil science skills. feminine principle within us all. www.divinenourishment.net Natalie Bogwalker spends her time practicing, learning and pork for direct markets. They have grown a wide variety of teaching skills for becoming closer to the earth. She focuses grain and bean crops over the past four years. Rick Hamilton is a retired Extension Specialist and leader with Laura Lengnick is a soil scientist with 30 years experience on permaculture, primitive and homesteading skills including over 33 years in public forestry education. His last Forestry researching, consulting, teaching and learning about soils and butchering, buckskinning, basketry, building, brewing, berry Rob Dull is a NC Registered Landscape Architect, and leads degree was from Duke University. . She has directed the Sustainable Agriculture picking and many others that don’t start with b. She coordinates the design department at Snow Creek Landscaping in WNC. An Program at Warren Wilson College since 2002. the Firefly Gathering each year and frequently puts on NCSU alumni, Rob is also a Reg. Landscape Contractor, NC Plant Walter Harrill was the heir to his grandfather’s 50 year-old workshops found on www.WildAbundance.net. Professional, and a Certified Permaculture Designer. His focus in commercial blueberry , and has spent the last decade Diana McCall has managed the Black Mountain Community sustainable residential design includes low impact development, learning to grow and market small fruit. Returning for his fifth Garden and offered community cooking classes to all ages since Alex Brown has been farming with his wife, Vanessa Campbell, on-site stormwater mitigation, and native plant community OGS teaching engagement, he looks forward to your always 2005. She is certified Kundalini Yoga Level I Instructor and offers since 2000, on their farm in Big Sandy Mush outside of Asheville, restoration. challenging questions! classes in Black Mountain. She combines all these passions to NC. They cultivate 6 acres of a diversity of vegetables, flowers, better her in her most important one--raising her three children. and fruits, and offer produce at local tailgates markets in Asheville and through a CSA. 18 19 Mark Megalos is an Extension Forestry Specialist at NCSU Brian Rosa has served as Organics Recycling Coordinator for with Forestry and Resource degrees from NCSU and Rutgers NCDENR, DEAO since May of 2003. He brings more than 20 years University. of experience in the organic waste reduction industry. Prior to working with DEAO, owned and operated a waste reduction 18th Annual Organic Growers School EVALUATION Richard Moyer: For 15 years in Bristol, TN, the Moyers produced consulting/ sales company, specializing in vermi-composting Please drop your evaluation form into one of two collection boxes: all their fruit on a large suburban lot, as their family grew to six equipment. • OGS Headquarters in the Highsmith Union Building children. While at King College, Moyer measured antioxidants in • In the lobby of the Karpen Building 108 cultivars of small fruits. Now, from their farm, they sell fruit Isaac Savage is founder and president of Home Energy Partners, • OR you can hand your evaluation in to any classroom moderator at day’s end. and vegetables to markets and restaurants. an Asheville-based building performance contracting and training firm. He travels nationwide to provide trainings on building At the same time, please recycle your name tag holder and lanyard when you turn in your evaluation. Thanks for helping us keep waste and costs down! Dr. Ron Morse is an emeritus professor of vegetable crops at diagnostics and HVAC design to industry professionals. Need some more time to complete your evaluation? Virginia Tech. His research-outreach focus is sustainable-organic Mail it in by April 1, 2011 to: Organic Growers School • 788 Mt. Hebron Rd. • Old Fort, NC 28762 food systems that use local or on farm-farm production inputs. Leslie Sigmon , as a leader in the burgeoning “urban adventure He specializes in development of small farm equipment and farming” movement, has created a 10-acre art and agriculture ABOUT YOU: integration of farmscaping and cover cropping techniques to community in West Asheville. She is researching ways that Name (optional):______achieve holistic conservation farming systems. we can use food, fungi, and fun to better our planet, our Phone (optional):______Email (optional):______community, and our creative impulses, while moving ever closer Jon Nilsson is a Soil Scientist. Since 1985 he has provided to our own personal versions of sanity. I am a: ______Farmer ______Advanced Gardener technical assistance for commercial compost and farm ______Prospective Farmer ______Intermediate Gardener operations in Biological Management of Soil and Plant Health. CoreyPine Shane is Director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal ______Homesteader ______Beginning Gardener Using biological tools, he has developed products which Medicine (started 1999) and is a wildcrafter and medicine maker ______NC Ext. Master Gardener achieved 98% control of Damping Off and a 50% increase in through Pine’s Herbals. He has explored the wilds and wood of ______Other­­­ (please describe)______tomato yield (at first pick). the Blue Ridge mountains, and has been seeing clients for over 15 years. How did you hear about the school? Dianne Palmer-Quay is a suburban homesteader with a large ______I’ve attended in the past ______Radio: (station)______garden, small orchard, chickens, rabbits, dairy goats, and wool Jamie Sparks is a jeweler and fiber artist as well as an ______NC Cooperative Extension ______A Friend Told Me sheep. She and her family raise layers and broilers in portable herbalist and massage therapist. Much of her botanical and ______Saw a Poster ______Other______pens and process the birds at home. herbal knowledge gets integrated into her massage practice ______Newspaper Article or Ad, which?______as handmade oils and spritzers. She also uses much of this Annie Perkinson, along with her husband Isaiah, owns and knowledge with natural dying in her felted work. SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS YOU ATTENDED: manages Flying Cloud Farm in Fairview. They grow for a 100 Saturday March 5 Session #1: 9-10:30 member CSA and distribute the rest of their produce and flowers Tom Trout records 16 years in the liberal arts, 2 years in the Session #/letter:______Session Name:______directly to the consumer at 3 local tailgate markets and at a US army, and 39 years of being self employed mason in Yancey self-service roadside stand on the farm. County, incorporated in 1986 to specialize in wood fired masonry Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding heat. Comments:______Donna Price has successfully lived with Celiac Disease since late 2002. She is also co-owner of The Dirty Hoe Landscaping Mike Uchal is an adjunct instructor at Appalachian State Saturday March 5 Session #2: 11:00 - 12:30 & Gardening since 2005 and is an avid supporter of local, University in the Department of Technology. He teaches classes Session #/letter:______Session Name:______sustainable agriculture. in wind energy, microhydro power systems, and sustainable technologies. Prior to his work at ASU, he worked for a wind Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding M Rathsack lives, teaches, and creates art in Hendersonville, energy development company focusing on the installation and Comments:______NC. She owns a small art school where she teaches pottery, maintenance of wind turbines from residential to utility scale. painting, drawing and fiber arts to all ages! M’s creative outlet is Saturday March 5 Session #3: 2:00- 3:30 clay. Martha Vining is Product Developer for Blue Ridge Food Session #/letter:______Session Name:______Ventures. She has worked in food production as a cook, food Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding Kris Reid is an Executive Chef in Charlotte NC, the Food writer and culinary arts instructor for over 25 years. Her Comments:______Coordinator for CFSA and a advocate. Her culinary interest in jams and pickles has led her to teaching food training took place in Mexico and at Johnson & Wales University preservation classes at A-B Tech and John C. Campbell Folk Saturday March 5 Session #4: 4:00-5:30 in Charlotte. Kris is a mother, gardener, concerned consumer, School. and finally a cook with a desire to teach. Session #/letter:______Session Name:______Whitney Williams is a NC Licensed Acupuncturist and Board Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding Certified Diplomate in Acupuncture. Williams has a BS from Comments:______Virginia Tech and a Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Masters Level, from the Florida Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her healing center, Source for Well Being, currently has 12 health practitioners with over 23 healing modalities. 20 21 18th Annual Organic Growers School EVALUATION continued from page 21 Saturday October 8, 2011

SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS YOU ATTENDED: Highland Lake, Flat Rock, NC Sunday March 6 Session #1: 9-10:30 Session #/letter:______Session Name:______Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding Call for proposals: instructors, vendors and demonstrations Comments:______True Nature is the fall event of the Organic Growers School. Much like the Spring Conference, our focus is education. In contrast, True Nature will offer an educational experience that is less classroom-based and more experiential. In this outdoor, fair atmosphere, we will feature hands-on education: learn by doing or watching someone demonstrate the process. Sunday March 6 Session #2: 11:00 - 12:30

Session #/letter:______Session Name:______We are looking for instructors who What would you like to offer? Please submit your proposed Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding enjoy teaching in this way. The subject Vendors: If you offer an experiential educational offering, including title, description, short instructor bio and Comments:______matter is all aspects of sustainable education experience at your living. We will have vendors offering an booth, we will waive your vendor contact information to Karen Vizzina educational experience at their booths, fee. Your teaching does not need [email protected] or Sunday March 6 Session #3: 2:00- 3:30 folks working in the , planting to be linked to what you vend, but 926 Welch Road, Session #/letter:______Session Name:______a forest garden, taking a plant walk then it does need to be approved by the Franklin, NC 28734. True Nature organizing committee. Questions? 828.342.1849 Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding eating what they collected in a cooking demonstration, etc. Comments:______piglets • crafts, folk arts and Native American arts, energy and shelter • old time music contest • jewelry and body care products Sunday March 6 Session #4: 4:00-5:30 music • weaving • health and healing • canoes and kayaks • spoon making • basket making • renewable energy • permaculture Session #/letter:______Session Name:______fresh, yummy food • social and political action • draft horses • food preservation • working dogs • tool sharpening • felting Session Rating: Poor Fair Good Excellent Outstanding gardening • medicinal herbs • pottery • rabbits • homesteading • honoring our elders • goats • green building • chickens homestead products and equipment • farmers market • teach your children well • sheep • low impact forestry Comments:______nature walks • small livestock • One Bowl local foods dinner • silent auction • AND MORE! FUTURE TOPICS What are some topics you would like to see covered next year?

OVERALL What do you think about how the school was laid out and the campus utilized?

Any comments on exhibitors and food vendors?

What are the strengths of the school ?

What needs improvement?

Any other comments?

22 THANK YOU FOR COMING! 23 The Organic Growers School Presents

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Experience Ignite Agriculture (a quick-fire idea throwdown) featuring: Camille Kingsolver co-author of acclaimed book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Cecil Bothwell Asheville City Councilman

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