Tilth Producers hosts a statewide conference each November, attended by more than 600 growers, researchers, students and agricultural businesses and organizations.
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Current Tilth Producers members may listen to past conference audio in our library.
2012 Tilth Producers Annual Conference – November 9-11th
Fort Worden State Park – Port Townsend, Washington
Keynote speaker Allan Savory is Founder and President of the Savory Institute and created the holistic management philosophy and practice used worldwide today. Holistic Management is a decision-making framework which results in ecologically regenerative, economically viable and socially sound management of the world’s agricultural lands and grasslands.
Washington State University will host a Friday Symposium entitled Seeding the Future: Ensuring Resiliency in our Plant Genetic Resources.
A Friday afternoon small engine repair program will feature “Ask Albert” Roberts of Pinestump Farm and Grant Gibbs of Gibbs Organic Produce demonstrating how to refurbish older farm equipment.
Stay tuned for more 2012 details on a weekend of workshops and social networking events.
- Year | Keynote Speaker
- 2003 | Paul Stamets
Mushrooms as Allies: Potentiating Planetary Host Defenses Through Fungi - 2004 | Vandana Shiva
Agriculture for Life: Beyond the Suicidal Economy of Industrial Farming & Globalized Agriculture - 2005 | Fred Provenza
The Role of New Science in Sustainable and Organic Agriculture - 2006 | Helena Norberg-Hodge
Creating a Regional Food System - 2007 | Lynn Miller
Cultivating the Family Farm - 2008 | Dr. Paul Hepperly
No Till, Organic and Traditional Agriculture: They Can All Work Together - 2009 | Dr. E. Ann Clark
Organic and Sustainable: The Common Ground - 2010 | Chuck Hassebrook
The Next Wave of Change in Agriculture, the Food System & Rural America - 2011 | Miguel Altieri
Agroecology: Designing a New Agriculture for a Changing Planet