Women in Agriculture will host an experiential session, starting with a mini-experience from our Learning Circles, grounded in our conversation and community with women ranchers. Hear stories from our work to create community and connect women to resources across programs in the west and beyond. We have invited guest discussants from Women in Ranching, Women for the Land and Women Food and Agriculture Network to explore how women are regenerating agriculture and ranching across diverse experiences and geographies by creating new networks of community and collaboration. Come with your own experiences to share and help us collectively build on a vision for greater equity in ranching from across our shared work.

Join April Jones, founder of the Pinehurst Farmers Market in Columbia S.C. and work group member for the “Anti-Racist Farmers Market Toolkit”. At this workshop, April will help producers and others involved in agricultural marketing ground their marketing efforts in anti-racism and equity through awareness and connetion to cultural foodways and practices that honor numerous cultural traditions in food. She’ll help participants think through how they market and tell their story. Additionally, there will be chance for small-group discussions to hear from one another and how you currently market and how you hope to market in the future.

Learn more about how you can get involved in the Growing GRASS work focused on the beef & bison byproducts supply chain. Primary focus will be opportunities for farmers and ranchers interested in or already regeneratively grazing cattle & bison. There will also be discussion of opportunities for processors, brands, advocates etc. to learn more and get involved. All are welcome!

Harness the power of nature and regenerative management to improve grazing lands and producer profitability. This workshop is for anyone that wants to improve the health of our soil, grazing lands, and graziers.

Learn how to get involved with the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP) in New Mexico and beyond.

Current main stream research declaring manmade non-ionizing EMF a critical issue in rural America and solutions to mitigate the crisis for people, homes and farms and ranches of all sizes.

This half day workshop, led by Holistic Management Certified Educator Kelly Sidoryk, will explore the strategies to build a transition plan that is tailored to your own unique operation and family. You will also hear from guest speakers and co-facilitators about their experience with succession planning and management and asset transfer challenges. We will examine the initial steps of the succession planning process; creating a shared vision; communication and decision making; roles and responsibilities; important members of the succession planning team; contingency plans and intergenerational dialogue. You will have access to an online resource library of succession planning materials and templates to support you after this workshop. Whether taking the first steps or continuing the path of transferring to the next generation, this workshop will be valuable to all families in business.

Roots So Deep is a four-part documentary series all about inventive farmers and maverick scientists asking if an underutilized way to graze cattle, that mimics the way bison once roamed the land, can help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help save us from catastrophic climate change?

For this special screening, we will be showing Episodes 1 and 4. There will be a Q&A and discussion with director Peter Byck following the show.

Check out the trailer and tell your friends!

This course from the Intertribal Agriculture Council and the Southwest Grassfed Alliance will delve into the question of what really makes you an entrepreneur, and how we can all recognize ourselves as leaders even if you are a “one-person-show” or a budding business, or even just a new business idea.

In this workshop, we’ll hear from team members of the Southwestern Tribal Agroforestry Outreach Project and what they’ve been learning about Indigenous-led agroforestry efforts in the Southwest – including the importance of collaboration, relationships, and storytelling, and how traditional ecological knowledge shapes agroforestry in this region. We’ll share videos and other educational materials highlighting agroforestry initiatives from Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, Tewa Women United’s Healing Foods Oasis, and Santa Ana Pueblo’s Native Plant Nursery. And finally we’ll end in a discussion with participants to learn about your experiences, challenges and dreams for Southwestern agroforestry and silvopasture. 

Anyone is welcome to come mingle and there will be a special area for producers and buyers who actively engage with organic value chains as well as those who are interested in organic transition and selling organic products but don’t know where to start. 

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

+ Explore our Exhibitor hall and meet some of your regional and community business partners and regenerative resources!

Sign-up for Roundtables will be at the conference.

• Regenerative Ranching at Scale (Nov 2 and 3)
• Carbon Credit Opportunities and Challenges (Nov 2 and 3)
• Addressing the Meat Processing Logjam (Nov 2 only)
• Future of Indigenous Agriculture in the Southwest (Nov 2 only)
• Land and Water Access – Challenges and Leadership in the Farming Community (Nov 2 only)
• Effective Business and Succession Planning (Nov 2 and 3)
• Resilience Through Catastrophe: Preparation for and Recovery from Climate Disasters (Nov 2 and 3)
• Supporting Mental Health in Regenerative Agriculture (Nov 2 and 3)
• Practical Naturopathic Approaches to Animal Health (Nov 2 only)
• Regenerative Research (Nov 2 and 3)
• Unconference Experience (Nov 2 and 3)

Detailed descriptions and facilitators for each roundtable can be found here.

This mixer will connect excited job-seekers with employers in fields such as regenerative agriculture, sustainable food systems, conservation, and more. Even if you aren’t immediately seeking a job or hiring a candidate, we welcome you to still come shake hands with others who might be a part of your next step forward.