Thursday February 15, 2018
5:00 – 7:00pm Exhibitor setup and volunteer meeting
Friday February 16, 2018
7:00am Registration open
7:00 Coffee/tea and morning snack station
Exhibitors open
8:00 – 5:00 Resource Room: Sign up for Farmer Interviews, NM Farmers Marketing Association
8:30-10:00 Breakout Sessions group 1 (Soils Analysis, Pollinators, livestock disease, root crops, Seeds, Marketing)
10:30-12:00 Breakout Sessions group 2 (Corn/Small Grains, Interns, NRCs programs, Certification Support, Drip Irrigation Panel, Myciorrhizal Fungi)
12-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:00 Demonstrations (Hops equipment, Dr. Lombard)
1:30-3:00 Breakout Sessions group 3 (Worker Safety, hoop house construction, FSMA/Produce Safety Rule, Hay, Meat/Specialty Processing)
3:00 Afternoon tea and snack station
3:30-5:00 Breakout Sessions group 4 (Pruning, Water harvesting, Carbon Farming, Advanced Compost, Impact of Importing Organic)
6-8:00 Career Connection & Winter Mixer,
Quivira New Agrarian Program
Saturday February 17, 2018
7:00am Registration
7:00 Coffee/tea and morning snack station
Exhibitors open
8:00 – 12:00 Resource Room: Sign up for Farmer Interviews, NM Farmers Marketing Association
8:00-9:30 Breakout Sessions group 5 (Carbon Sequestration, Building a Greenhouse, Grafting Tomatoes, Seed Saving, Diversification at Full Belly Farm, Intro to Compost)
9:45-11:15 Breakout Sessions group 6 (Berry/small fruit session, Cover Crops, why every farmer needs a microscope, Native American resilience gardening techniques, American Grown/Slow Flower movement, Classroom Ag, Enterprise Analysis, HMI)
12:00-2:00 Welcome
New Mexico Local & Organic Luncheon
Steve Ela, Ela Family Farms, Keynote Address
Recognition and Awards
2:15-4:00 Networking Sessions (Livestock, School Agriculture, Crops, Native American)
4:00 End of NMOFC 2018, Thank You for joining us!
Friday, February 16 – 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 17 – 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
To register, head here.
