Early registration deadline: July 1
The SAEA is proud to announce our 3rd National Conference held at Iowa State University. Come join us in the heartland to learn about key issues of the sustainable agriculture education research and practice community!
The conference will provide an open exchange of information among students, faculty, staff, administrators, student farm managers, farmers, non-profits, community organizers and others.
Students and faculty in the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, in cooperation with Marshalltown Community College and Michigan State University, have organized three days of cutting-edge, participatory-based programming.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to lead in-depth discussions, share experiences, and exchange resources in a variety of thematic topics, including:
- The Eating Infrastructure
- Farmers as educators
- Mending metabolic rift through urban agriculture
- International learning opportunities in sustainable agriculture
- Educating Farmers
- Professional development for a career in sustainable agriculture
- Systems thinking and ethics in sustainable agriculture
- Curriculum Development
- Social justice and integrating immigrant community members into agriculture
- Student farms
There will be ample opportunities to work on class and program development, exchange resource materials, and learn from others working in sustainable agriculture around the country.
The conference includes a performance by Mary Swander, Iowa's Poet Laureate, and an address by Dr. Fred Kirschenmann, a Distinguished Fellow and former director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Fred is also an organic farmer from North Dakota.
Field trips will engage participants in issues related to learning farms and commercial agriculture. Regional food, art, and lively music will be featured throughout the meeting!
Registration fees cover supper on Wednesday, breakfast and lunch on Thursday, and breakfast, lunch, and supper on Friday.
Key dates:
- Workshop proposal submissions are due by June 15.
- Course/Module Development Input deadline is June 15.
- Early Registration deadline is July 1.
To support the Marshalltown Community College Entrepreneurial Agriculture Program’s GLove Project, we request that participants bring new work gloves of any size or type. These will be distributed to local farm workers and immigrant horticultural workers.
Please help us spread the word about this exciting event by hanging flyers around your campus, emailing flyers to your colleagues and friends, posting flyers to listservs, or uploading flyers to Web sites.
OR by distributing this quarter card, which can be printed back-to-back and then cut into four postcard sized handouts.