• Don't Take Normal for an Answer: Mechanical Innovation on the Farm, NOFA-Mass Conference, Feb. 2025

  • Panelist, Innovating on the Farm, PASA Conference, Feb. 2024

  • Secrets of the Farm & Tool Auction, Future Harvest CASA Conference, Jan. 2024
    Our region's rural areas have a rich history of farm auctions, where thrifty farmers congregate for deals on everything from hand-tools to tractors, but auctions can feel complicated and intimidating to new attendees. Learn how a farm auction works, what those auctioneers are saying, and practice in our own mock auction so you'll be ready to confidently bid.

  • Let’s Talk Leases, joint session with UMD/Extension, Future Harvest CASA Conference, Jan. 2024

  • 10 Years Building a Resilient, Financially-Secure Future with Old Machines & New Ideas, PASA Conference, Feb. 2023
    How one farmer followed an unconventional path to an unconventional result, rejected off-the-shelf answers and created a stable, resilient farm with income supporting current livelihood and eventual retirement.

  • Panelist, Perspectives on the Pathways to Greater Vegetable Farm Income, PASA Conference, Feb. 2023

  • Panel facilitator, Stories from Scaling Up, Future Harvest CASA Conference, Jan. 2020
    We often talk about "scaling up" as if it is as simple as growing twice as much of everything, but the truth is: Not all aspects of an operation scale up linearly and/or grow according to plan. As farmers and managers, our daily work and interface with the farm changes significantly as scale increases. Hear from a panel of farmers who have navigated the highs and lows of scaling up and how their farm businesses have evolved along the way.

  • Panelist, The Future of CSA: Think Outside the Box, Chesapeake CRAFT Summer Solstice Conference, June 2019

  • Educational farm tour and discussion, Future Harvest Beginner Farmer Training Program Wheatland Weekend, June 2019

  • How Water Works: Getting Irrigation to Do What You Want It to Do, PASA Conference, Feb. 2019
    An understanding of how water works underlies a successful irrigation plan. We will first lay the theoretical groundwork about pressure, flow, pumps, and wells, then move into the practical matters of how to design an irrigation setup and how to figure out what parts to order from the catalog. The workshop concludes with a demonstration of how to assemble all the parts together in the field.

  • Wholesale for the Small-Scale Farmer: Crop, market, and farm planning for wholesale success, Future Harvest CASA Conference Jan. 2019, with Bryan Alexander of Good Dog Farm
    With careful consideration of its advantages, wholesale can be profitable as retail. Hear from two small-scale farmers on deciding what crops and buyers make sense for you, the direct-wholesale and distribution worlds, and business planning around the wholesale model.

  • Irrigation in the Age of Climate Change, Future Harvest CASA Conference, Jan. 2018

  • Moderator, New and Used Equipment Choices for Small Farms, Farmer-to-Farmer Chat, CASA Conference, Jan. 2018

  • Panelist, Finding Your Niche: Wholesale for Farms of All Sizes, Future Harvest CASA Field Day, Nov. 2017

  • Educational farm tour, Chesapeake CRAFT, Oct. 2016

  • Irrigation Essentials, Future Harvest CASA Pre-conference intensive, Jan. 2016

  • Choosing, Acquiring, and Adapting Equipment, Future Harvest CASA Conference, Jan. 2015, with Ali Moussalli of Frog Bottom Farm

  • Irrigation Essentials, Wheatland Farm Skills Day with Future Harvest CASA, May 2015

  • Irrigation Setup and Design, Chesapeake CRAFT Summer Solstice Conference, June 2014

  • Irrigation Setup and Design, Chesapeake CRAFT Summer Solstice Conference, June 2013