10th Annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference Agenda 2013

Schedule of Events

Monday, March 4th

4:00 pm

6:00
6:30 7:00

Arrival Ojibwe Teaching and blessing Shannon Martin

DINNER in Dining Hall

Warm up traditional step dancing and jigging with Caroline Chartrand

Tuesday, March 5th

8:00 am 8:30

BREAKFAST in Dining Hall

Morning Blessing Mike Dahl Welcome and Conference Overview - Winona LaDuke

(9:30-1:45) Youth sessions - Check Youth Agenda Sheet for details. 9:15 10:15

Morning Presentations I:

A: Seed Saving Techniques - Rowen White B: Nutrition in Native Corn Varieties - Frank Kutka and Walter Goldstein C: Season Extension and Solar Heated High Tunnel - Dallas Flynn 10:15 10:30 BREAK 10:30 12:00 Morning Presentation II: A: Passive Solar Winter Greenhouse Construction & Use Carol Ford, Chuck Waibel, Sue Wika, Tom Prieve B: Make your own Salve and Tobacco Workshop with Terri LaDuke C: Homestead Economics and Saw Milling Robert Alexander and Irvin Hershberger 12:00 1:00 LUNCH 1:00 1:30 Keynote Feature Connecting Our Urban Community to Health through Food and Farming Sammie Ardito Rivera 1:30 2:30

Afternoon Presentations I:
A: Restoring Endangered Seeds Initiative - Steve Dahlberg and Frank Kutka B: Connecting Our Urban Community to Health through Food and Farming Sammie Ardito Rivera and the Dream of Wild Health Youth Leaders C: Harvesting Edible Wild Mushrooms Kelly Larson

2:30 3:30 3:30 4:30

BREAK: Enjoy Maplelag! SEED SWAP in dining area. Afternoon Presentations II:
A: United Tribes Agroecology Extension Program - Gardening is Food Sovereignty in Action Colette Wolf B: Food is Medicine - Linda Different Cloud C: Goat Milk Production Workshop with Sue Wika and Tom Prieve

4:30 4:45 4:45 5:30

BREAK Afternoon Presentations III:

A: B: Reprise - Make your own Salve and Tobacco (may go to 6:00pm) Workshop with Terri Laduke C: White Earth Reservation Agricultural Development Dawn Kier 5:30 6:00 7:00 8:00 Seeds of the Seneca In Dinning area. Onandowaga Haudenosaunee farmer Phil Seneca

DINNER Evening Presentation/Activities:

A: Star Gazing Indigenous Star Knowledge as it relates to Planting and Harvesting with Michael Price from the Leech Lake Tribal College. We will talk inside talk then go outside if it is a clear sky!

8:00pm

Wednesday, March 6

Corn Necklace Making with Lolly Aguilar Mens Moccasin Game Mike Dahl MOVIE - Queen of the Sun. th

8:00 am BREAKFAST (9:30 - 1:45) Youth sessions Check out Youth Agenda Sheet for Details. 9:00 10:15

Morning Presentation I:
A: Decolonizing Anishinaabe Diet Project - Martin Reinhardt B: Chequamegon Farm to School program Amorin Mello C: Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways - Shannon Martin

10:15 10:30

BREAK

10:30 11:45 KEYNOTE Presentation Growing Power - a non-profit organization and land trust providing equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe, and affordable food, especially in disadvantaged communities. Erika Allen 12:00 1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:30 Keynote Feature: Ahkawaapamankwike, Ahkawaapamelankwiki-kati (If we take care of them, they will take care of us) Dormancy and reawakening of Indigenous seeds, language, and knowledge. - Scott Shoemaker 1:30 - 2:30

Afternoon Presentations I:

A: Restoring our Traditional Foods to Improve Community Health: A Collegiate American Indian Student Garden Experience- Tracy Peterson B: About our Sustainable Community in the Lakota Nation - Ahan Hehaka Sapa C: Ethnobotany Project: Native Seeds at the Science Museum of Minnesota - Scott Shoemaker 2:30 - 3:30 3:30 4:45

BREAK: Enjoy Maplelag! SEED SWAP in DINING AREA Afternoon Presentations II:

A: Mobile Farmers Market & Great Lakes Producer Network - Dan Cornelius B: Seed Cooperatives and Protecting Native Seeds from Patenting - Rowen White C: Lost Lake Pastured Poultry & Protecting Heritage Poultry Breeds - Andy Hayner and Kelly Larson 4:45 5:00 BREAK 5:00 - 6:00

Afternoon Presentations III:

A: Farm to School Resource and Information Marleen Webb B: Soil Health and Soil Building - Adam Woltjer and Heather Dose C: SEED SWAP in Dinnig area

6:00 6:45 7:15 on

Hand Drum Songs with Martin Reinhardt In Dining area

DINNER and Music Evening Activities:

Cree and Metis Step Dancing - Caroline Chartrand How to Turn Your Ordinary Shampoo into an Herbal Shampoo - Estella Yueng Corn Necklace Making Lolly Aguilar Film: Economics of Happiness a project of the International Society for Ecology and Culture.

8:00pm

Thursday March 7th

8:00 am

BREAKFAST Morning Presentations:

9:00 10:00 A: Native American Maize - Abdullah Jaradat B: Keepseagle Tax Workshop Dan Cornelius C: Why Ancient Wheats May Be of Interest to You Frank Kutka 10:30 - 11:30 Anishinaabe Farming Curriculum - White Earth Land Recovery Project-Winona LaDuke 11:45 Closing Prayer 12:00 LUNCH and Departure