Soil and Health Forum

Saturday, September 16th, 2023 | Tara Firma Farms | Petaluma, CA


Event Schedule

8:00 – 9:00 am
Coffee and Tea Mixer

9:00 – 9:15 am
Mark Squire – Welcome

9:15 – 9:45 am
Wendy Johnson  – Welcome Ceremony

9:45 – 10:00 am
Damon Connelly  – CA Assembly 12th District- Marin/Sonoma

10:00 – 10:30 am
Brock Dolman  on Water

10:30 – 11:30 am
Panel – The Power of Small and City-Scale Soil Solutions
Trathen Heckman, D’Lynda Fischer, Rick Taylor, Pamm Larry

11:30 – 12:00 pm
Everyday Activism No Matter Where You Live
Beth Craig, Corinna Bellizzi

12:00 – 12:30 pm
Small Scale Grain Farming
Rachel Britten & Doug Mosel from Mendocino Grain

12:30 – 1:45 pm
Lunch

1:45 – 2:00 pm
Jared Huffman – US Congressman, 2nd Congressional District

2:00 – 2:30 pm
Starhawk – Permaculture

2:30 – 3:00 pm
Rebecca Burgess – The Fibershed

3:00 – 3:30 pm
Kelly Ryerson – The Glyphosate Girl

3:30 – 4:15
Panel – Human Health from the Ground Up
Michelle Perro, Bonnie Nedrow, Daphne Miller, Neka Pasquale

4:15 – 4:45 pm
Panel – Healing the Land With Livestock
Albert Straus, Rosie Burroughs, Aaron Lucich

4:45 – 5:15 pm
Tim LaSalle  – The Magic in Soil

5:15 – 5:45 pm
Jeffrey Smith – The Genetics of Microorganisms

5:45 – 6:15 pm
Stacy Malkan – Digging in the Dirt
Why We are Not Getting the Real Story on our Health

6:30 – 8:30
Closing Ceremony & Dinner

Presented By

Institute

The Tara Firma Farms Institute 501c3 (TFFI) was founded with a clear goal: educate our friends, families and communities about their local foodshed, share and develop techniques for proper animal and pasture management and promote knowing their farmers and the source of their food!

Tara Firma Farms
3796 I Street
Petaluma, CA 94952

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