Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group annual conference

Friday, January 27, 2017 - 8:00am to Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 9:00pm

Start planning now to join the Southern Sustainable Ag Working Group (SAWG) in Lexington, Kentucky, Jan. 25-28, 2017 for their annual conference.

Go to their website for details.

The pre-conference events begin on Wednesday and include a line-up of one-and-a-half day intensive short courses, Organic Agriculture Research Symposium (OARS), and then on Thursday, several half-day field trips and mini courses. Each of these pre-conference activities requires separate registration. Thursday evening is an informal meet and greet with music, seed swap, book signing, and cash bar.

The general conference is held on Friday and Saturday with a wide variety of program offerings and 90 expert presenters. The session topics include organic and sustainable vegetable in fields and in high tunnels, grazing and sustainable livestock management, specialty crop production, unique marketing strategies, food hubs, scaling up, increasing profits, business and finance management, beginning farming, farm to cafeteria, community food systems work, federal farm programs, agriculture policy developments and more.

We are honored to have two nationally known figures as keynote presenters this year. Ricardo Salvador, Director of the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and K. Rashid Nuri, founder and CEO of The Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture will each give a keynote presentation and will each lead a regular conference session discussing their important work.

Also included in the cost of the general conference registration are a trade show, research posters, and the Taste of Kentucky dinner.