Friday – Saturday, February 12-13, Various SJI Locations
— from San Juan Islands Conservation District —
The San Juan Islands Agricultural Summit is back in 2016! This year it will take place in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island on Friday and Saturday, February 12-13. Join fellow farmers, regional experts, local food and farm advocates for three days of education, inspiration, and camaraderie.
Registration is now open! Sign up before February 1st for Early Bird Pricing: Early bird rate for the Saturday Summit is $50 pp, or $55 pp including a ticket to Friday night’s Plenary Talk by Dr. Courtney White. Register HERE.
Keynote speakers for 2016 will include
- Courtney White, author of Soil, Grass, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country, and Two Percent Solutions for the Planet. White offers positive solutions for farmers to “regenerate the planet now, rather than in some distant future.”
- Severine von Tscharner-Fleming will also join the Summit as a keynote speaker. Severine is a visionary, farmer, activist, and organizer based in the Champlain Valley of New York. She is founder and director of The Greenhorns, a grassroots cultural organization with the mission to promote, recruit and support a growing movement of young farmers and ranchers in America. She also co-founded the National Young Farmers Coalition, the Agrarian Trust, and Maine Sail Freight. She is a director of the Schumacher Center for New Economics.
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