2024 Ecological Day Presentations
Updates for the 2025 program will be made in the fall of 2024.
Precision Agriculture in Organic Cash Cropping
Presented by: Phil Oegema
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Presentation begins Tuesday January 14th, 2025 at 10:00 am.
Soil Health
Presented by: Odette Menard
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Presentation begins Tuesday January 14th, 2025 at 11:05 am.
Growing nut Trees
Panelist: Elisabeth Burrow, Owner, Jewels Under the Kilt
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Presentation begins Tuesday January 14th, 2025 at 1:15 pm.
Small Grains, Big Gains
Panelist: Jackie Clark, EFAO
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Presentation begins Tuesday January 14th, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Panel: Pastured Pigs
Experienced farmers share their tips and tricks for success with pastured pigs.
Panelist: Lisa Peterson, Owner, Stone Horse Farm
With two young children and some dietary challenges 12 years ago, I needed a stay at home job and better quality food. After learning I did not react to pasture raised meats, I started with hens, then meat birds and finally pigs. Within two years, selling my farm pork has become my primary income. While my work background was in publishing and public relations, I had lifelong experience keeping horses, beef and chickens while growing up, to help me avoid major catastrophes. The prior jobs, applied to social media and emails, helped me build me local clientele for farm and market sales.
Panelist: Katrina McQuail, Owner/Operator, Meeting Place Organic Farm
Katrina returned to the farm in 2014 and took over the farm business in 2016. Born and raised in Huron County on the farm; Katrina took a round about way back to becoming a farmer. Spending over 10 years away, Katrina completed a degree in Business and Not For Profit Management and a minor in French at Earlham College in Indiana before going on to work in the culinary industry, traveling through Central America, working for government and corporate agencies before running a wonderful social change not-for-profit in Guelph for 4 years. Katrina does extensive volunteer work for a couple different organizations, mostly focused on youth and young adults as well as the environment. She is a PADI Open Water Scuba instructor and was the conference organizer for Pendle Hill's annual young adult Friend conference. Currently Katrina serves on the EFAO board as the President, and is the assistant clerk for Friends General Conference. Katrina is passionate about all things farmy - but especially pigs.
Panelist: Ted Zettel, Partner, Zettel Family Farms
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Facilitator: Devan Penney, Owner, Fair Fields Farm
Devan came to farming through a love of food, physical work, the outdoors and a desire to change the food system to be more fair and sustainable. After completing a BA in environment and development at Trent University, he spent time apprenticing on various organic fruit and vegetable farms in Southern Ontario. Together with family and 2-3 staff, Devan grows non-certified organic asparagus, rhubarb, strawberries and sweet corn. Reducing tillage, covercroping and soil health are all important goals at Fair Fields and with these in mind, the farm is trying to move into more perennials, such as raspberries, haskaps and tree fruit.
This presentation is CEU accredited under the Crop Management category.
Presentation begins Monday January 8th, 2024 at 3:35 pm.
And don't forget to take a look at the list of On-Demand presentations which you can watch throughout the conference and for the thirty days following! Use the button on the left to browse full details for those!
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