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Education Name: Cultivating Resilience Winter Conference
Date: 2/6/2025 8:30:00 AM - 2/6/2025 2:15:00 PM
Location: Pinnacle Center
3330 Highland Dr
Hudsonville, MI 49426-1907
Description:
The Ottawa Conservation District, ODC Network, and Allegan Conservation District partners annually with other local organizations to host our Cultivating Resilience event. The goal is to showcase both common and emerging practices that promote soil health, improve water quality, and give producers practical conservation knowledge that they can use to evaluate and enhance their operations. This event always serves as a MAEAP Phase 1 Educational Event and RUP credits are usually available for those who need them.
Due to attendee feedback and how much this event has grown over the last few years, we are making some changes to the layout of our Annual Cultivating Resilience event. Instead of hosting a summer outdoor field day, we are moving the main event to a late winter indoor conference with two to three follow up smaller field workshops that will focus on conference topics . This will allow us to bring in more speakers and will allow those interested in learning more about a specific topic to attend a focused, in-depth field workshop later in the spring or summer.
As a result of this change, we will not be hosting a 2024 Cultivating Resilience event. Our first winter conference is scheduled for February 6th, 2025.
Our featured keynote speaker for the 2025 Cultivating Resilience Winter Conference is Rick Clark, a 5th generation farmer who cares deeply about soil health and human health. The principals of soil health are the foundation of his regenerative organic stewardship systematic approach. The farm has been no tilling for 18 years and using cover crops for 14 years. The farm has removed all inputs of fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, seed treatments, and tillage. He is building a regenerative system that is profitable and viable for the next generation. Rick will discuss his journey through the years of regenerative practices, as well as demonstrate the economic impacts of those systems. Learn more about Rick in the video or in the following links: www.farmgreen.land/, farmersfootprint.us/rick-clark/
Stay tuned for more details on speakers, breakout sessions, and follow up field workshops!
Please reach out to Caryn Dawson at caryn.dawson@macd.org or Sarah Bowman at sarah.bowman@macd.org regarding any questions about this event.
Pinnacle Center 3330 Highland Dr Hudsonville, MI 49426-1907Start: February 06, 2025 8:30 AM
End: February 06, 2025 2:30 PM
Education Name: Cultivating Resilience Winter Conference
Date: 2/6/2025 8:30:00 AM - 2/6/2025 2:15:00 PM
Location: Pinnacle Center
3330 Highland Dr
Hudsonville, MI 49426-1907
Description:
The Ottawa Conservation District, ODC Network, and Allegan Conservation District partners annually with other local organizations to host our Cultivating Resilience event. The goal is to showcase both common and emerging practices that promote soil health, improve water quality, and give producers practical conservation knowledge that they can use to evaluate and enhance their operations. This event always serves as a MAEAP Phase 1 Educational Event and RUP credits are usually available for those who need them.
Due to attendee feedback and how much this event has grown over the last few years, we are making some changes to the layout of our Annual Cultivating Resilience event. Instead of hosting a summer outdoor field day, we are moving the main event to a late winter indoor conference with two to three follow up smaller field workshops that will focus on conference topics . This will allow us to bring in more speakers and will allow those interested in learning more about a specific topic to attend a focused, in-depth field workshop later in the spring or summer.
As a result of this change, we will not be hosting a 2024 Cultivating Resilience event. Our first winter conference is scheduled for February 6th, 2025.
Our featured keynote speaker for the 2025 Cultivating Resilience Winter Conference is Rick Clark, a 5th generation farmer who cares deeply about soil health and human health. The principals of soil health are the foundation of his regenerative organic stewardship systematic approach. The farm has been no tilling for 18 years and using cover crops for 14 years. The farm has removed all inputs of fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, seed treatments, and tillage. He is building a regenerative system that is profitable and viable for the next generation. Rick will discuss his journey through the years of regenerative practices, as well as demonstrate the economic impacts of those systems. Learn more about Rick in the video or in the following links: www.farmgreen.land/, farmersfootprint.us/rick-clark/
Stay tuned for more details on speakers, breakout sessions, and follow up field workshops!
Please reach out to Caryn Dawson at caryn.dawson@macd.org or Sarah Bowman at sarah.bowman@macd.org regarding any questions about this event.