February 2 & 3, 2021: 6th Biennial Russian River-Friendly Landscaping Event
January 21, 2021: The Remarkable Success of the Natural Farming Movement in India
January 11, 2021: Oxford Real Farming Conference
February 21, 2020: Agriculture and Climate in the Northeast: Soil and Ecosystem Health at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
November 14 - 17, 2019: Bionutrient Food Association conference
February 4 - 6, 2020: Southern Rocky Mountain Agricultural Conference and Trade Fair in Monte Vista, CO.
January 23 - January 26, 2020: Northern Plains Sustainable Ag's 2020 Food & Farming Conference in Fargo, North Dakota.
August 15-18, 2019: Soil Carbon Sponge Strategic Gathering with Didi Pershouse & Walter Jehne, Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT
August 14, 2019: "Understanding the Soil Sponge and Green Stormwater Infrastructure," hands-on, experiential soil workshop with Didi Pershouse, Walter Jehne, and Cat Buxton at a local farm.
June 17 - 20, 2019: Food security and climate change: 4 per 1000 initiative new tangible global challenges for the soil, Poitiers, France
March 28-31, 2019 in Montreal, Canada: Living Soils Symposium.
February 20-24, 2019 in Paris, France: International Meeting for a Living Agriculture.
January 19, 2019 in Exeter, California: Sequoia Riverlands Trust Soil Carbon Sponge Workshop.
November 28, 2018 in Ajax, Ontario: Ontario Excess Soils Symposium.
November 18, 2018 in St. Johnsbury, VT: Common Ground for Climate Action. St. Johnsbury's Universalist Unitarian Church (47 Cherry Street), from 1-4pm. Sponsored by Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition (VHSC) and Community Resilience Organization (CRO)
Thanks to a grant from the National Grazinglands Coalition, you can join Didi Pershouse and Cat Buxton for one of our free daylong hands-on Land Listeners workshops at grass-fed beef and dairy farms throughout Vermont. The last session is still available for sign-ups.
September 20, Butterworks Farm, Westfield, VT
Didi Pershouse will also be teaching a live interactive online course on the Soil Sponge on September 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th. Learn more here.
June 13, 2018: Jamaica Plain, MA, 6:30 - 9:30PM
The Soil Sponge: Our Hope for Community and Climate Resilience.
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist. More info here.
May 8-11, 2018: Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont: The Soil Carbon Sponge Seminar with Walter Jehne, Didi Pershouse, and others.
April 16: Fairfax, MARIN COUNTY, CA, 6:00-8:30 pm: "Can we Rehydrate California for the Long Term?" Fairfax Women's Club. Sponsored by Diana Donlon and Larry Bragman.
April 14, 2018: VENTURA COUNTY, CA: Daylong workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse.
April 12, 2018: SANTA BARBARA, CA:
Daylong "Can we Rehydrate California?" workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse at Cachuma Resource Conservation District, San Antonio Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
April 5-6, 2018: Waterloo, Ontario, (Canada): Health Systems in the Anthropocene Conference, University of Waterloo.
March 28, 2018: Cambridge, MA (USA). (5:30 pm to 8 pm) Cambridge Public Library "The Hidden Life of Soil." Presentation and discussion, Sponsored by Mothers Out Front. Details here.
March 25, 2018: Bedford MA: Sunday sermon (10 am) at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
February 25-27, 2018, Oklahoma City, OK: "The Living Soil Sponge: Can Soil Biology Prevent Flooding and Drought?" (3-4:15 Tuesday) Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts State Meeting.
February 3, 2018, Essex, MA: "Climate, Water, Soil, and Hope: Soil Biology's Role in Public Health and Climate Resiliency" (1-5 pm) Half day workshop with NOFA/Mass and Essex County Greenbelt Association 82 Eastern Ave, Essex, MA
January 25-26, 2018, Latham, NY: "Soil Health and its Impact on Human Health" (Thursday, 4:30-5:15 pm) The Northeast Pasture Consortium
January 17, 2018 Jamestown, North Dakota: "The Importance of Microbes in the Gut and Soil" (11 am) and "Soil Health and Watershed Function" (2:30 pm) at the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition Winter Conference in Jamestown, ND.
January 20-21, 2018, Fairlee, VT: "Understanding Soil Health" (Saturday 1:30-2:45 pm) at the Vermont Grass Farming Association Conference at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont.
January 13, 2018, Worcester MA: “Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward,” (4-5:30 pm) and "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Landscape Function" (9-10:30 am) at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference at Worcester State University, MA
January 5, 2018, Pocantico, NY, Day-long workshop with Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan for staff at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
December 5, 2017, New York City, "Preventing Flooding and Drought with the Soil Sponge: the living matrix that makes life on land possible" address to delegates at United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
November 18, 2017, Cambridge, MA, "The Ecology of Care: Shifting from a Sterile to a Fertile Paradigm" at Harvard University
November 3, 2017, Fairlee VT, "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Improving Community and Climate Resilience," Wellborn Hub Leadership Conference
October 22, 2017, South Royalton, VT "Connecting Human and Ecosystem Health" at BALE's conference "Localize It: What Resilience Looks Like" at Vermont Law School
October 13 - 15, 2017, Montreal, Canada "Soil Health and Public Health" at Living Soils Symposium,
October 1, 2017: "Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs" Daylong workshop at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Montpelier, VT)
August 26, 2017: "Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward" and "Climate Water Soil and Hope",www.nhpermacultureday.org/ NH Permaculture Day (Warner, NH)
August 19, 2017: Emporia, Kansas "Supporting Each Other As Leaders In the Soil-Health Movement," following Gail Fuller's Field School.
July 19, 2017, Lake Placid NY, 6pm: Reading at Green Goddess Health Food Store in Lake Placid, NY
June 11, 2017, Warner, NH, 2:00 PM: Reading at MainStreet BookEnds of Warner
May 19th from 4:30-7pm: Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at the Citizen Science Conference's "Night in the Cloud" event at the St. Paul RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN.
May 15 - 16, 2017: Teaming with Microbes: Soil Health Seminar with New Zealand agroecologist Nicole Masters.
April 25, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Royalton Memorial Library (South Royalton Village, VT)
April 10, 2017 at 6:30pm: Reading at the Blake Memorial Library (East Corinth, VT)
March 23 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion at the Robbins Library (Arlington, MA)
March 22 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion in Lincoln, MA, RSVP to Janemhammer@gmail.com to get directions
March 15, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Chelsea Public Library (Chelsea, VT)
February 24-25, 2017: Healthy Soils Symposium
January 14, 2017 from 1:30-3:30pm: "Microorganisms: the Unseen Workers of the World." 2017 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference in Worcester, MA.
November 30, 2016 at 9:30 AM to Friday, December 2, 2016 at 4:30 PM at the Lake Morey Resort
"The Soil Carbon Sponge: Intensive Seminary with Microbiologist Walter Jehne."
October 26, 2016: Guilford, VT, Guilford Church, 7 PM
"The Commons of Care," Discussion and book reading from The Ecology of Care with Didi Pershouse
November 11-12, 2016: El Reno, Oklahoma. "Agriculture, Water and Climate: Teaching Soil Health Principles and Whole Systems Landscape Function." A workshop for formal and non-formal educators with Didi Pershouse and Clay Pope. Blue STEM AgriLearning Center.
Sept 16-18, 2016: Land Listeners Workshop: Monitoring and Teaching Whole Systems Landscape Function, Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford, VT
August 25, 2016: Soil Symposium, Center for Transformational Practice, White River Junction, VT 5:30-7:30
August 22, 2016: Norwich Public Library Reading from The Ecology of Care, Norwich, VT
August 20, 2016: "Microorganisms: Unseen Workers of the World," New Hampshire Permaculture Day
January 21, 2021: The Remarkable Success of the Natural Farming Movement in India
January 11, 2021: Oxford Real Farming Conference
February 21, 2020: Agriculture and Climate in the Northeast: Soil and Ecosystem Health at Tufts University (Medford, MA).
November 14 - 17, 2019: Bionutrient Food Association conference
February 4 - 6, 2020: Southern Rocky Mountain Agricultural Conference and Trade Fair in Monte Vista, CO.
January 23 - January 26, 2020: Northern Plains Sustainable Ag's 2020 Food & Farming Conference in Fargo, North Dakota.
August 15-18, 2019: Soil Carbon Sponge Strategic Gathering with Didi Pershouse & Walter Jehne, Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT
August 14, 2019: "Understanding the Soil Sponge and Green Stormwater Infrastructure," hands-on, experiential soil workshop with Didi Pershouse, Walter Jehne, and Cat Buxton at a local farm.
June 17 - 20, 2019: Food security and climate change: 4 per 1000 initiative new tangible global challenges for the soil, Poitiers, France
March 28-31, 2019 in Montreal, Canada: Living Soils Symposium.
February 20-24, 2019 in Paris, France: International Meeting for a Living Agriculture.
January 19, 2019 in Exeter, California: Sequoia Riverlands Trust Soil Carbon Sponge Workshop.
November 28, 2018 in Ajax, Ontario: Ontario Excess Soils Symposium.
November 18, 2018 in St. Johnsbury, VT: Common Ground for Climate Action. St. Johnsbury's Universalist Unitarian Church (47 Cherry Street), from 1-4pm. Sponsored by Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition (VHSC) and Community Resilience Organization (CRO)
Thanks to a grant from the National Grazinglands Coalition, you can join Didi Pershouse and Cat Buxton for one of our free daylong hands-on Land Listeners workshops at grass-fed beef and dairy farms throughout Vermont. The last session is still available for sign-ups.
September 20, Butterworks Farm, Westfield, VT
Didi Pershouse will also be teaching a live interactive online course on the Soil Sponge on September 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th. Learn more here.
June 13, 2018: Jamaica Plain, MA, 6:30 - 9:30PM
The Soil Sponge: Our Hope for Community and Climate Resilience.
First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist. More info here.
May 8-11, 2018: Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee Vermont: The Soil Carbon Sponge Seminar with Walter Jehne, Didi Pershouse, and others.
April 16: Fairfax, MARIN COUNTY, CA, 6:00-8:30 pm: "Can we Rehydrate California for the Long Term?" Fairfax Women's Club. Sponsored by Diana Donlon and Larry Bragman.
April 14, 2018: VENTURA COUNTY, CA: Daylong workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse.
April 12, 2018: SANTA BARBARA, CA:
Daylong "Can we Rehydrate California?" workshop with Walter Jehne and Didi Pershouse at Cachuma Resource Conservation District, San Antonio Basin Groundwater Sustainability Agency.
April 5-6, 2018: Waterloo, Ontario, (Canada): Health Systems in the Anthropocene Conference, University of Waterloo.
March 28, 2018: Cambridge, MA (USA). (5:30 pm to 8 pm) Cambridge Public Library "The Hidden Life of Soil." Presentation and discussion, Sponsored by Mothers Out Front. Details here.
March 25, 2018: Bedford MA: Sunday sermon (10 am) at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church
February 25-27, 2018, Oklahoma City, OK: "The Living Soil Sponge: Can Soil Biology Prevent Flooding and Drought?" (3-4:15 Tuesday) Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts State Meeting.
February 3, 2018, Essex, MA: "Climate, Water, Soil, and Hope: Soil Biology's Role in Public Health and Climate Resiliency" (1-5 pm) Half day workshop with NOFA/Mass and Essex County Greenbelt Association 82 Eastern Ave, Essex, MA
January 25-26, 2018, Latham, NY: "Soil Health and its Impact on Human Health" (Thursday, 4:30-5:15 pm) The Northeast Pasture Consortium
January 17, 2018 Jamestown, North Dakota: "The Importance of Microbes in the Gut and Soil" (11 am) and "Soil Health and Watershed Function" (2:30 pm) at the North Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition Winter Conference in Jamestown, ND.
January 20-21, 2018, Fairlee, VT: "Understanding Soil Health" (Saturday 1:30-2:45 pm) at the Vermont Grass Farming Association Conference at Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont.
January 13, 2018, Worcester MA: “Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward,” (4-5:30 pm) and "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Landscape Function" (9-10:30 am) at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference at Worcester State University, MA
January 5, 2018, Pocantico, NY, Day-long workshop with Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan for staff at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
December 5, 2017, New York City, "Preventing Flooding and Drought with the Soil Sponge: the living matrix that makes life on land possible" address to delegates at United Nations-FAO World Soil Day
November 18, 2017, Cambridge, MA, "The Ecology of Care: Shifting from a Sterile to a Fertile Paradigm" at Harvard University
November 3, 2017, Fairlee VT, "Climate, Water, Soil and Hope: A Whole Systems Approach to Improving Community and Climate Resilience," Wellborn Hub Leadership Conference
October 22, 2017, South Royalton, VT "Connecting Human and Ecosystem Health" at BALE's conference "Localize It: What Resilience Looks Like" at Vermont Law School
October 13 - 15, 2017, Montreal, Canada "Soil Health and Public Health" at Living Soils Symposium,
October 1, 2017: "Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs" Daylong workshop at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism (Montpelier, VT)
August 26, 2017: "Resilient Leadership: Thinking Together, Listening Deeply, Moving Forward" and "Climate Water Soil and Hope",www.nhpermacultureday.org/ NH Permaculture Day (Warner, NH)
August 19, 2017: Emporia, Kansas "Supporting Each Other As Leaders In the Soil-Health Movement," following Gail Fuller's Field School.
July 19, 2017, Lake Placid NY, 6pm: Reading at Green Goddess Health Food Store in Lake Placid, NY
June 11, 2017, Warner, NH, 2:00 PM: Reading at MainStreet BookEnds of Warner
May 19th from 4:30-7pm: Didi Pershouse and Peter Donovan of the Soil Carbon Coalition at the Citizen Science Conference's "Night in the Cloud" event at the St. Paul RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN.
May 15 - 16, 2017: Teaming with Microbes: Soil Health Seminar with New Zealand agroecologist Nicole Masters.
April 25, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Royalton Memorial Library (South Royalton Village, VT)
April 10, 2017 at 6:30pm: Reading at the Blake Memorial Library (East Corinth, VT)
March 23 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion at the Robbins Library (Arlington, MA)
March 22 from 7-9 pm: Reading and Discussion in Lincoln, MA, RSVP to Janemhammer@gmail.com to get directions
March 15, 2017 at 7:00pm: Reading at the Chelsea Public Library (Chelsea, VT)
February 24-25, 2017: Healthy Soils Symposium
January 14, 2017 from 1:30-3:30pm: "Microorganisms: the Unseen Workers of the World." 2017 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference in Worcester, MA.
November 30, 2016 at 9:30 AM to Friday, December 2, 2016 at 4:30 PM at the Lake Morey Resort
"The Soil Carbon Sponge: Intensive Seminary with Microbiologist Walter Jehne."
October 26, 2016: Guilford, VT, Guilford Church, 7 PM
"The Commons of Care," Discussion and book reading from The Ecology of Care with Didi Pershouse
November 11-12, 2016: El Reno, Oklahoma. "Agriculture, Water and Climate: Teaching Soil Health Principles and Whole Systems Landscape Function." A workshop for formal and non-formal educators with Didi Pershouse and Clay Pope. Blue STEM AgriLearning Center.
Sept 16-18, 2016: Land Listeners Workshop: Monitoring and Teaching Whole Systems Landscape Function, Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford, VT
August 25, 2016: Soil Symposium, Center for Transformational Practice, White River Junction, VT 5:30-7:30
August 22, 2016: Norwich Public Library Reading from The Ecology of Care, Norwich, VT
August 20, 2016: "Microorganisms: Unseen Workers of the World," New Hampshire Permaculture Day