Join us and Mothers Out Front for a great opportunity to learn about soil health as a climate solution as a part of our Climate Action Challenge. NOFA/Mass has been a leader in the state promoting soil carbon sequestration, climate resilient farming practices, and also helped to pass the Healthy Soil Action Plan. Come learn about our work at the state level, hear from several farmers in Massachusetts about their climate practices and strategies, and be a climate advocate through your food & farm choices.

 

About

This event is being held as both a collaboration with Mother’s out Front to highlight the importance of soil health in our communities, and on the behalf of the Climate Action Challenge. The challenge: to raise $20,000 this November so we can continue to support climate resilient programming. Donate today!

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About the Instructors:

Ruben Parilla (he/him) is the Soil Technical Coordinator for NOFA/Mass and trained in microscopic soil microbial identification through the Soil Food Web School. He is a Certified Lab Tech and studied Environmental Design at the University of Puerto Rico. Rubén has 15 years’ experience working at different capacities in the environmental laboratory industry. He has been performing soil carbon proxy testing, soil health assessments, soil chemical analysis, and soil microbiological evaluations for NOFA/Mass over the past year and has extensive experience farming and working with farmers, including beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers. 

Annemarie Walsh – Langwater Farm, North Easton, MA. 

Annemarie manages the wash & pack at Langwater Farm in North Easton, MA.  

Chuck Currie of Freedom Food Farm manages grain & compost production as well as the livestock. He has farmed for over 15 years and has taught many workshops on organic, regenerative farming in New England.

Chuck studied biochemistry and chemistry for two years at UMass Amherst before taking a sustainable agriculture course, visiting a small farm run by someone not much older than him, and instantly realizing he had wanted to be a farmer his entire life. After completing a B.S. in Plant, Soil, and Insect Science in 2005, he worked at Red Fire Farm in Granby, MA for three years before starting his own farm in Vermont. After four years farming in Vermont, Chuck moved back to southeastern Massachusetts with the goal of providing equal access to good food in more urban communities, and to be closer to family and friends. He started Freedom Food Farm in 2012 on leased land in Johnston, RI and began leasing land to farm in Raynham, MA in 2014.

Cost: 

Free. We are hosting this webinar in the spirit of our Climate Action Challenge. Please consider donating.

Accessibility:

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Questions?

Contact Hannah at [email protected]