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Grasstravaganza, an event for farmers, conservationists, and consumers who are interested in soil health, grazing, and sustainable agriculture, will be held at Alfred State Aug. 4-6.
Grasstravaganza, an event for farmers, conservationists, and consumers who are interested in soil health, grazing, and sustainable agriculture, will be held at Alfred State Aug. 4-6.
Taking place on the Alfred campus, the conference, “Healthy Soils, Healthy Animals, Healthy Farms,” will feature presentations by national and local grazing and soil health experts who will cover a range of topics, interactive soil health-related activities, and a trade show.
The featured speaker this year is Dr. Fred Provenza. For more than 38 years, Provenza has produced groundbreaking research on livestock grazing behavior. This work has influenced research in areas from nutrition and foraging behavior of animals and humans, to rural sociology and development.
Additional speakers include Justin Morris, Natural Resources Conservation Service soil health specialist; Matt Ehrhart, director of Watershed Restoration at the Stroud Water Research Center, an independent research institution focused on stream and river ecology; and Dr. Hue Karreman (tentative), a “first-generation” organic veterinarian, who began using alternative treatments in 1988 as a herdsman on a biodynamic farm.
For more information or to register, please visit the conference web site or call Karen Meade at 607-587-4714.