The Conference Library is a collection of resources, presentations, and handouts from past conferences. The Harvest Conference materials come first. The Spring Conference materials are organized by learning tracks—cooking, gardening, soils, etc.—as well as half-day and pre-conference workshops.
2020
Seasonal Tonics with Patricia Kyritsi Howell
Cherokee Foods with Amy Walker, Mary Crowe, and Tyson Sampson
2019
DIY Medicine Making w/Noelle Fuller
Tinctures, Teas & Oils Powerpoint
Tinctures, Teas & Oils Handout
Key to Winter Wellness Infographic
Mushroom Seasoning Blend Recipe
Forest Farming w/James Geoffrey Steen
Agroforestry & Silvopasture Powerpoint
Hemp Farming w/Cee Anderson of Green Heffa Farms
Teaching Organic Hemp Farming in the NC Mountains YouTube Video
2018
The Sustainable Poultry Flock w/Jim Adkins
Seven Principles of Gardening Handout
Tending Your Inner Garden w/Monica Corrado
2017
Fall and Winter Gardening: Yes You Can!
Seven Principles of Gardening Handout
Four-Season Composting
Four-Season Composting PowerPoint Presentation
Growing and Making Plant Medicine: Teas, Tinctures, and Salves
Dictionary of Herbs; Making Plant Medicine Handout
Healing with the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine
High Tunnels for Homesteaders
High Tunnels for Homesteaders References Handout
Planting Dates for Winter Harvest Crops Handout
Making Mead 101
Mead Making 101 with Marissa Percoco Handout
Processing Acorns
Sleep Matters
Guidelines for Better Sleep and Herbs for Sleep and Relaxation Handout
Wild Food Preservation
Preserving the Wild Harvest Handout
Worms for Living Soil
Making​ ​a​ ​Composting​ ​Worm​ ​Bin Handout
2016
Root Cellars with Rod Bowling
Intro to Mead Making with Marissa Percoco
Easy Soil Amending with Mike Weeks
Feast from the Garden with Diana Schmitt McCall
Notes from Easy Soil Amending with Mike Weeks AND Fermentation Q&A with Sandor Katz by Diana Leafe Christian
Notes from Growing Microgreens with Meredith Alphin AND Planting Before First Frost with Randal Pfleger by Diana Leafe Christian
Home Growing: Simple Approaches for Food Abundance with Chuck Marsh
Living Systems Design
Reading the Landscape Checklist
Extended Environmental Analysis
Permaculture Design
Sector and Zone Planning
10 Stage Keyline Planning Worksheet
Principles of Permaculture
Resources
Slope
2015
Gardens that Give: Top 10 Essential Perennials with Keri Evjy
Perennial Vegetables Slides as a .pdf
Perennial Vegetables as a Powerpoint
Grow Year Round: Easy & Affordable Systems for Season Extension with Randal Pfleger
Season Extension Presentation as a .pdf
Backyard Composting Made Easy with Mark Langdon
Back-Yard Composting as a .pdf
The Best Berry:Â Is the One You Grow Yourself with Walter Harrill
Bramble Presentation as a Powerpoint
Bramble Presentation as a .pdf
Basic Beekeeping and Beyond with Jon Christie
A Beekeeper’s Year in Western North Carolina
Typical Flowering Season for Western North Carolina Honey and Pollen
Self Sufficiency? You Can Do It! with Chip Hope
Growing Towards Self-Sufficiency
Restoring Digestive Health with Lindsay Wilson
Notes on Restoring Digestive Health
5 Essential Staples with Diana Schmitt-McCall
Backyard Chickens with Dianne Palmer-Quay
2015 Backyard Chickens Powerpoint (ppt)
2015 Backyard Chickens Handout (pdf)
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Past Conference Programs
Community Food
Cooking
2020
Food of the Diaspora, Georie Bryant
Local Cherokee Cuisine, Tyson Sampson
2019
Southern Harvest, Cathy Cleary
2018
Beginning Cheese Making, Christina Gordon
Holistic Homestead Nutrition, Chloe Lieberman
Soul on the Road, Clarence Robinson
2017
Introduction to Charcuterie, Meredith Leigh
Mead Making 101, Marissa Percoco
Mead Making 201, Marissa Percoco
(1) Inflammation, Food and Health, Elizabeth Pavka
Earth Skills
Gardening: Beginning
Gardening: Experienced
Farming: Beginning
2019
Intro to Flower Farming, Niki Irving
Sustainable Farming Practices, Pam Dawling (Slides)
Sustainable Farming Practices, Pam Dawling (Handout)
2018
Growing Cut Flowers, Annie Louise Perkinson
Introduction to Farm Marketing, Ellen Polishuk
Introduction to Biodynamics, Holly Whitesides
Sustainable Farming Practices, Pam Dawling
2017
Creating Farmland Access: Land Trusts, Farm Link, Other Land Access Tools
Creating Farmland Access: Resource Guide
High Tunnels for Homesteaders: Planting Dates for Winter Harvest Crops
High Tunnels for Homesteaders: Resources
High Tunnels for Homesteaders: Seasonal System for Crops
2016
Farming: Experienced
2019
Practical Tools for Disease Management, Tom Elmore
2018
Large-Scale Medicinal Herb Farming, Gabriel Noard
Organic Pest Management, Richard Boylan
2017
Creating Farmland Access: Land Trusts, Farm Link, Other Land Access Tools
Creating Farmland Access: Resource Guide
2016
Practical Plant Pathology, Vanessa Campbell
Evaluating Scale-Does My Farm Fit Me?, Sarah Jane Davis and William Lyons
Farming: Experienced
Herbs
2021
Botanical Skincare, Noelle Joy
Herbs for Oral Health: An Exploration Into the Oral Microbiome, Amy Wright & Eileen Brantley #1
Herbs for Oral Health: An Exploration Into the Oral Microbiome, Amy Wright & Eileen Brantley #2
2020
Grief & Trauma Support, Kelbi Morris
Growing & Selling Herbal Products, Patricia Howell
2019
Ginger & Turmeric PowerPoint, Patricia Howell (Slides)
Ginger & Turmeric, Patricia Howell (Handout)
Bitters for Better Digestion, A. Shaffer
2018
Growing Your Own Plant Medicine, Cassandra Nicholson
Herbs, Slavery & the South, Sobande Moss-Greer
2017
Adaptogens: Herbs for Stressful Times
Homeopathy for Chronic Illness: Approaches to Common Conditions
Homeopathy for Chronic Illness: Revolutionary Medicine
Homeopathy for Chronic Illness: MIASM
Introduction to the Five Elements
Mixing It Up: Tonics in the Kitchen
2016
Intuitive Plant Medicine, Asia Suler
Bitter Herbs: Wild and Cultivated, Â Patricia Kyritsi Howell
Homesteading
Livestock
2020
Raising Bacon, Rhyne Cureton (Slides)
2019
Rotational Shepherding in the Mountains, Sharon Dubuc (Slides)
Rotational Shepherding in the Mountains, Sharon Dubuc (Handout)
2018
The Homestead Dairy Cow & DIY Water Systems, Beth & Shawn Dougherty
2017
Strategies for Pastured Livestock
2016
Incorporating Brewers Grains into Livestock Diets, Jack Britt
Mushrooms
2022
Introduction to Mushroom Cultivation, Sneha Ganguly (ZINE Handout)
2021
Mushroom ID & Foraging Practices, Rachel Zoller
2020
Fermenting with Fungi, Erica Gunnison
Medicinal Mushrooms, Cornelia Cho
2019
Mycelium for Healthy Land, Leif Olson
2018
How to Grow Mushrooms, Sheila Dunn
Mushroom ID 101, Charlotte Caplan
2017
2016
Permaculture
2020
Perennial Permaculture Plants, Laura Ruby
Permaculture 101, Michael Brown (handout by Laura Ruby)
Permaculture Land Design, Luke Costlow
2019
Diverse & Inclusive Permaculture PowerPoint, Indy Srinath (Slides)
Principles of Permaculture, Indy Srinath (Handout)
Garden, Landscape & Nursery, Randal Pfleger
Appalachian Permaculture Plants, Cailen Campbell
2018
Permaculture 101, Sarah Brinker
Permaculture Earthworks, John Henry Nelson
Societal-Scale Permaculture, Zev Friedman
2017
Building Climate-Resilient Edible Landscapes
2016
Permaculture 101, Patricia Allison
(1) Real Life Forest Gardening and Farming, Zev Friedman
(2) Real Life Forest Gardening and Farming, Zev Friedman
Pollinators
Poultry
Soils
2020
Fertility Management, Buz Kloot (Slides)
Low-Till Techniques, Cedar Johnson (Slides)
2019
Carbon Farming for Climate Resilience PowerPoint, Laura Lengnick (Slides)
Carbon Farming for Climate Resilience (Handout)
Indigenous Soil Solutions, Chuck Mashburn
Earthworms for Living Soil, Mary Ann Smith
2018
Farm-Scale Composting, Ellen Polisuk
Nitrogen Availability & Your Crops, Julia Gaskin (PowerPoint)
Holistic Forestry
2022
Appalachian Tree Crops, Justin Holt (Handout)
Appalachian Tree Crops, Justin Holt (Presentation)
Forestry and Land Retention, Alton Perry (Presentation)
2018
Native Nuts from Mast to Mouth, Bill Whipple
2017
Coppice and Silvopasture: Coppice Species Matrix
Wild-Simulated Ginseng Production
2016
(1) Silvopasture Production Systems, James Geoffrey Steen
Sustainable Living
2021
DIY Solar Power, Keenan Phillips
2020
DIY Solar, Keenan Phillips (Handout)
DIY Solar, Keenan Phillips (Slides)
2019
Solar for Home & Farm, Matthew Bennett
Managing Waste for Income, Rhonda Sherman
2018
Compact House Design, Keenan Phillips
TLUD Cookstoves, Dan Hettinger
2017
2016
The Well Stocked Pantry-Food Preservation w/o Canning, Kelly Wilkinson
Enhancing Your Garden with Structures that Last, Ken Czarnomski
Thinking Big
2020
Climate Advocacy, Steffi Rausch & Asher Wright
Rural Justice, Charlie Thompson
Stewardship Dowsing, Lee Barnes
2019
Gaying the Garden, Dallas Robinson
Cultural Wellness, Healing, & Resilience, Christina Bouza
2018
Political Pathways to Pesticide Free Communities, Philip Ackerman-Liest
2016 (Track previously called Voices from the Field)
Passive Solar Greenhouse Design, Terry Carroll
(1) High Tunnel Introduction from A to Z, Christina Newhouse
(2) High Tunnel Introduction from A to Z, Christina Newhouse
(3) High Tunnel Introduction from A to Z, Christina Newhouse
Half-Day Workshops
2022
Biochar for the Small Farm or Garden, Alex Gray (Handout)
2020
Growing Soils with Vermicompost, Rhonda Sherman
Living with Fermentation, Marissa Percoco
2019
Growing Fruit & Nut Trees, James Geoffrey Steen (Powerpoint)
Growing Fruit & Nut, James Geoffrey Steen (Handout)
Vegetable Ferments, Marissa Percoco
Making Paper from Plants of Appalachia, Alyssa Sacora
Kudzu Vine Basketry, Jeff Gottlieb
2018
Fermenting at Home, Meg Chamberlain
Growing Fruit & Nut Trees, James Geoffery Steen
The Homestead Dairy Cow & DIY Water Systems, Beth & Shawn Dougherty
Tree Identification in the Southern Blue Ridge, Rob Messick
2017
Introduction to Home Gardening
2016
Friday Pre-conference Workshops
2020
Farming While Black, Leah Penniman (Slides)
Mushroom Cultivation for Home & Farm, Leif Olson & William Padilla-Brown
2019
Year-Round Growing on the Farm and Garden, Pam Dawling and Ira Wallace
Finding, Buying, and Loving Land, Peter Bane
2018
Growing Our Community As We Grow Our Food, Karen Washington
The Independent Farmstead, Beth & Shawn Dougherty
2016
10 Herbs to Know and Grow-HANDOUT, Patricia Kyritsi Howell
10 Herbs to Know and Grow-POWERPOINT, Patricial Kyritsi Howell
Resources from 2015 and Earlier
Micro-Hydro Electicity, Bob Momich
Ram Pump Technology, Bob Momich
Birds Eye Business Planning Worksheet
Plants That Are Poisonous to Livestock
Easy Kimchi at Home, Steven Michael Goff
Wonderful Winter Salads, Jason LaFrance
What To Do With All Those Mushrooms, Rodney Webb
Pickles, Janelle Lucido-Conate
Cooking With Local Mushrooms Organic Growers School Spring, Â Diana Schmitt McCall
Growing Fruits and Nuts in your Home Garden, Chuck Marsh & Debbie Lienhart, Useful Plants Nursery
Perennial Plants for Health, Chip Hope
Shifting Gears to Year-Round Gardening, Jeff Ashton
Creative and Sustainable Garden Irrigation Resources
Light, Water, & Nutrient Requirements for Vegetables
Backyard Weeds, Juliet Blankespoor
Herbal Medicine Cabinet, Janet Kent
Using Appalachian Herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Joe Hollis
Herbal Extractions and Preparations
Woodland Growing: Wasabi & ‘Wild Mountain Vegetables’, Joe Hollis
Basket Making, Louise Langsner
Miso Fermentation from OGS ’15
THE PRINCIPLES OF PERMACULTURE, Bill Mollison & David Holmgren
Birds Eye Business Planning Worksheet
Basic Goat Meat Facts, NCCE, Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
Body Condition Scoring, NCSU, Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
Co-Grazing Meat Goats and Beef Cattle Has Many Advantages, Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
Low Cost Fixes to Decrease GIT Parasites, Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
Medications Commonly Used in GOATS and Withdrawal Times Dr. Seyedmehdi Mobini
Medications Commonly Used in NEW WORLD CAMELIDS, Dr. Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
Incorporating Goats into your Farming System, part 1, Jean- Marie Luginbuhl
Incorporating Goats into your Farming System, part 2, Jean- Marie Luginbuhl
Incorporating Goats into your Farming System, part 3, Jean- Marie Luginbuhl
Incorporating Goats into your Farming System, part 4, Jean- Marie Luginbuhl
Low Cost Fixes to Decrease GIT Parasites, Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
