Speaker Schedule - National Heirloom Exposition

THE WORLD’S
PURE FOOD FAIR!
NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
Sept. 6, 7, & 8, Santa Rosa, California - theheirloomexpo.com
THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPOSITION
Come and walk the aisles at the “World’s Pure Food Fair!”, an event for pure food enthusiasts,
the national press, home growers across the country, farmers, school groups and the general public. The Expo is now dubbed the “World’s Fair” of the heirloom industry! This is a
“non-profit” event, and any funds above cost will be donated to school gardens and food programs. This year's event will again be held at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa,
CA, on September 6, 7 and 8, 2016. Find out more at www.TheHeirloomExpo.com
• The largest
display of heirloom
produce – ever!
Over 4,000 varieties showcasing the diversity our
planet has to offer. Including hundreds of incredible
tomato varieties! Also
meet the incredible farmers who grow them!
• Amazing Speakers!
World Famous displays of produce; learn, share and taste the natural horticultural bounty
Over 75 nationally and
internationally acclaimed
on-topic speakers. Join us
in three speaker halls that
are themed this year: The
Garden Hall, The Pure Food
Pavillion and The Farmers
Forum. So whether you’re
a farmer, gardener or good
food activist, we have a hall
for you.
• Show Info!
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers, Dave Murphy & Lisa Stokke, Food Democracy Now
Tickets are available at the gate on September 6, 7 & 8, 2016.
Gates are open 9 AM to 9 PM. (Vendor hall opens at 10 AM)
One Day Ticket $15 or Three Day Pass $30 (Purchased at the gate) and Children are Free!
The Heirloom Expo is held at the beautiful Sonoma County Fairgrounds
1350 Bennett Valley Rd, Santa Rosa, California, and is a short drive from many airports.
Contact Us! Lisa at (417) 924-8917 or Claudia at(707) 773-1336 email: info@theheirloomexpo.com
Vendors and exhibitors welcome! Please contact us for details and questions!
An International GMO-Free Event--We oppose GMO Seeds!
Heirloom Expo
Sept 6-8, 2016
Santa Rosa, CA
4000 Varieties
75 Speakers
300 Vendors
150 Exhibitors
3 Fun Days
GMO Activism
Seed Swaps
Demo Gardens
About 20,000
Gardeners, and
Kid’s are Free!
Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farm, The Famed Tomato Guy.
Celebrate Global Gardeners who are fighting to keep our food
GMO free and preserve our heritage! • Join amazing workshops and talks on the importance of collecting, conserving and sharing heirloom seeds, and don’t miss our seed
exchange at 3pm on Sept 8th. Bring some seeds and join the fun.
Walk the aisles of the World’s largest produce display!
See, touch and taste summer’s heirloom bounty!
September 6-8, 2016, Santa Rosa, California
Join 20,000 heirloom farmers, gardeners and chefs.
The stage is set in beautiful Sonoma County, California.
COOL “KIDS” WHO ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE EAT Join a global list of young activists, seed savers and farmers. Like heirloom farmer Richie
Ramsay, 20, who promotes food diversity on the Island of Jamaica. Stephen
Smith, 19, Corn Researcher and Preservationist from Tennessee. Rachel Parent,
16, Canada’s Pure Food Fighter, who is working for a Non-GMO Canada. Birke
Baehr, 17, Organic Food Advocate from North Carolina, and Sara Patterson, 21,
owner of Red Acre Farm CSA and Utah’s Food Activist. Hear talks from dozens
of young, pure food advocates this September at the Heirloom Expo.
Colossal Pumpkins! World class giants; the largest last year was 1725 lbs!
Bring your giant pumpkin for the official weigh off sanctioned by The Great Pumpkin Commonwealth! Tuesday September 7th 4:00pm. Over $5000 in prize money.
Ian Neale, World Record gardener from
England. Learn how to grow your biggest and best with this acclaimed expert.
Leonardo Urena is Napa, California’s own
World Record grower and giant vegetable
guru. Meet him and his mammoth veggies.
Gourdeous Gourds! Enjoy amazing artists like the internationally acclaimed
Betty Finch with her amazing gourd persons and creatures.
Art of the Heirloom! Enjoy amazing seed and garden art in our amazing
art show, curated by Hudson Valley Seed Library. Enjoy artists at work everywhere
throughout the grounds and maybe take some hard-to-find crafty piece home!
Kids’ Heirloom Festival! (Expanded to all three days and a new pavillion!)
Thousands of children join us each year for America’s coolest pure food event!
Classes, tastings, games and Non-GMO FUN! Bring your kids or school group!
Enjoy displays by dozens of school groups. ALL of the Expo’s profits go to education.
• School groups and tours: Speakers from various seed companies (and others) will give talks and
run educational seminars for school groups. Education on GMOs and seed saving is an important
factor; after all, children are the future of farming and food industries. Schools are being encouraged to grow gardens for the event and enter their produce for display. Last year over 3,000 schoolkids participated in ‘kids-day’ at the 2015 Expo. Questions? email us: info@theheirloomexpo.com
• Vendors: More than 300 like-minded vendor booths: seed companies, great food, tool companies, garden
and farm supplies, produce, nurseries and all things related to pure-food, small farming and gardening .
•The Global “Local” Food Fair: Enjoy North California’s best globally-inspired cuisine. 30 kitchens
strive to produce 100% local & GMO-free dishes.
•Fresh Fruit Tastings: You can try some of the
world’s rarest heirlooms, as well as California favorites. All three days in our new tasting kitchen.
• Dozens of Heirloom Seed Companies: Representatives will share their wealth of knowledge at workshops for
the home-grower, the farmer and the enthusiast. Don’t miss the giant seed exchange, Thurs. at 3:00pm!
•Folk Music Festival & National Fiddlers Contest:
Come enjoy great old-time folk, bluegrass & cowboy music, as well as a sanctioned fiddle contest.
•Heritage Poultry : Meet many of California’s
premier keepers of heritage poultry, as well as an
amazing poultry show. Offering $1500 in prizes!
Join the International Heirloom Conference
75 World leading farmers, gardeners, chefs and activists! 3 days of seedy fun!
Learn Heirloom Farming, Gardening, Anti-GMO Activism, Marketing, Seed Saving, Permaculture, Biodynamics, Orcharding,
Bee Keeping, Cooking & Canning, Seed Industry News, Plant Breeding, Business Skills and more! TheHeirloomExpo.com
Helen Juarez
Leading Mexican Seed Saver
Jodi Torpey
Blue Ribbon Vegetable Gardening
John Roulac
Founder of Nutiva & GMO inside
We thank our fine sponsors!
www.thepermaculturestudent.com
Hudson Valley
SEED LIBRARY
seedlibrary.org
Matt Powers & Family
Permaculture Expert
Speaker Schedule - Tuesday, Sept 6
Farm Hall
PRENTICE
10 JESSICA
Social Change in a Mason Jar
Garden Hall
10 QACHUU ALOOM FARMERS
Amaranth and Native Greens – a
path to economic development,
nutrition and seed sovereignty in
Guatemala. Learn about the work of
this native group.
Three Stone Hearth is a worker-owned
cooperative preparing nutrient-dense
foods from sustainable ingredients
and packing them in returnable glass.
10
PEACH
VALENZUELA
11 JOHN
11 ANNA
11
What I Wish I Knew Then--the First
Classic Heirloom Fruit of California
Three Years Farming
Anna owns the amazing “Squash and
Awe Guerrilla Farm,” a one-person, 1/4
-acre farm on the big island of Hawaii.
12
ROWEN WHITE
Traditions, Cultures and Seeds
Rowen will share her journey to find
her ancestral seeds of her Mohawk
and Iroquois lineage and family, and
her seed stewardship.
Learn the stories and how to grow
these amazing old-time favorites with
one of California’s rare fruit expert
LOWENFELS
12 JEFF
12
Soil Food Web: No more Chemicals!
Mr Lowenfels is the world’s longest
running garden columnist, and award
winning garden author from Alaska.
BERANGER
CHRISTY WILHELMI
1 JEANNETTE
I Want Chickens! But Where Do I Start? 1 Growing in the Drought
There is an amazing array of heritage
chicken breeds available today, and it
can be complicated deciding which
is most appropriate for your land,
climate, and needs.
2 MICHAEL COLLINS
Biochar and Non-leaching Fertilizers: Learn fertilization tips from this
long-time organic expert
3
4
RICHIE RAMSAY
Permaculture and Sustainable
Agriculture in Jamaica
Young organic horticulturist, avid researcher and owner of “Exotic Roots,” an
organic heirloom farm based in Jamaica
JONATHAN PANTALIS & RACHEL
RENNER A Healthier Business
Founders of Phi Kind Organics: journey to create a healthier chocolate, &
a healthier, happier business. Learn
from this dynamic duo, who are in
their early twenties.
FRED HEMPEL
Seed Saving and Steril5 Selecting,
ization -- Making your tomato seed
stash robust and safe. Fred Hempel
has been seriously breeding tomatoes
for 10 years at his Baia Nicchia Farm.
6
CHIP MORRIS
Creating New Markets for Heirloom
Farm Products. Mr. Morris is the
President and Farmer of Elegant
Beans and has served as a researcher
at UC Davis for the past 11 years.
HEINRICHS
7 CHRISTINE
Heirloom Breeds for the Small Flock
Using bio-intensive methods, rainwater capture, efficient drip irrigation
and more!
2
3
4
DAVID KING
Why & How to Make a Seed Library
David King is the founding chair of
the seed library of Los Angeles, and
teaches gardening and horticulture.
KEN LOVE
AMAZING EXOTIC FRUIT
Mr Love is executive director of
Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, a world
authority on fruit, and has been featured on the movie, ‘Fruit Hunters’.
JODI TORPEY
Blue Ribbon Vegetable Gardening
(The Secrets to Growing the Biggest
amd Best Prizewinning Produce) Also
book signing after talk.
POWERS
5 MATT
Landrace Living: Get a glimpse of
the future of family life--seed to table
cooking, homeschooling, unschooling, seed saving and much more.
With author of Permaculture Student
1
2
WILLIAM WOYS WEAVER
7 DR.
Saved from Extinction! Colonial
Squash in the Roughwood Seed Collection. Learn about amazing squash!
DIANNA REEVES
The Health Impacts of Genetically
Engineered Foods and the Related
Agrichemicals. Learn from this Connecticut
mom-turned-activist, who founded GMO
Free USA
BOB QUINN, Ph.D
“The High Cost of Cheap Bread”
Bob owns & operates a 3rd generation 4000
acre family farm near Big Sandy, Montana.
(organic 30 yrs)
PANEL: LISA STOKKE, JOHN
ROULAC, JOE HICKEY
“The Future of Hemp”
Hemp holds the promise for sustainable and
renewable fuel, fiber, food and medicine. John
is founder of Nutiva and GMOInside. Joe‘s long
history in the hemp industry started in 1994 as
founder of Kentucky Hemp Growers Coop and
today is founder and a director of Atalo Holdings. Lisa Stokke is founder of Food Democracy
Now! and of The Next 7 Project.
JILL NUSSINOW What Does Sustainable
Eating Look Like?
AKA The Veggie Queen™ is a registred dietician who has been teaching plant-based,
whole foods cooking almost 30 years.
PANEL: ALVERO WIGGINS, BOCAR WADE,
BARBARA LOPPIE
Poverty, A Child, and a Mustard Seed. This
group comes to us from Hope Blooms, an urban, Canadian youth growing community who
has turned abandoned land into food & jobs
3
GRANT BRIANS
Mixing old and new varieties to create a
new flavor profile. Grant Brians was a
founding member of CCOF and owns
Gourmet Seed International.
4
HEBRON SMITH, PH.D
MONOCULTURE: Past and Current Issues,
and Genetic Diversity
Dr. Smith is a retired plant breeder with over
45 years of experience in the seed industry.
5
JOHN ROULAC
Healthy Soils, Oceans & Climate : They are
All Connected
Founder of the superfoods company Nutiva
and the non-profit GMO inside
PANEL HELEN JUAREZ,
6 SPANISH
LORI PATINO, GONZALO RODRIGUEZ
6
Conservando semillas al sur de la
frontera. “seed saving South Of The
border” Pequeñas historias sobre
cuidadores de semillas latinoamericanos.
Food Hall
ERIC HOLT-GIMENEZ, Ph.D
“Convergence in Diversity: Food Movements and the Transformation of Our
Food Systems” Eric is the executive
director of Food First Institute.
KIMBRELL The Future of Food:
7 ANDREW
Organic and Beyond Andrew is the
founder of Center for Food Safety.
Speaker Schedule - Wednesday, Sept 7
Farm Hall
Garden Hall
This presentation will cover cutting
edge developments and evaluations
in the realm of water conservation,
water reuse, rainwater catchment.
around the World. Learn about the
shocking diversity of peppers, from
sweets to the super hots.
EATON
SOLORIO
10 UBALDO
10 DARLES
Water Resilience and Restoration:
Growing Amazing Peppers from
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
JENNIE LONDON
How to Start a Small Market Farm
Learn how to start and manage your
farm with these expert farm ladies.
Learn tips to save time and money.
DR. DOROTHY SMITH
Corn Breeding and Research
Dr. Smith gives a rare window into
corn breeding; from how it is done to
techniques. Learn to keep it GMOfree!
PAUL AND ELIZABETH KAISER NoTill, Agroecological, Intensive
Farming from the Farmer’s Mouth
Create life in and around your handlabor no-till beds, from growing a
bounty of nutrient dense produce. The
Kaisers operate Singing Frogs Farm.
STEVE PETERS
Improving Seed Genetics-Advanced Seed Saving
Mr Peters now serves with the Organic Seed Alliance and has a degree in
vegetable crops and Soil Science.
BIRKE BAEHR
Rengeration and Remediation
Restoring land devastated by industrialized agriculutre using beneficial mycelium and beneficial crops like hemp.
EMIGDIO BALLON
Sustainable Farming at a Tesuque
Pueblo in New Mexico
Mr Ballon is Agriculture Director of
Tesuque Pueblo. He is an expert on
traditional farming & seed saving.
JOHN TORGRIMSON
Heirlooms Are Everywhere Today But Heirloom Naval oranges? Hybrid
Heirloom tomatoes? Heirloom has
become its own brand. Seed Savers
Exchange Executive Director John Torgrimson will redefine what heirlooms
are and how they differ from others.
SPANISH PANEL: LEONARDO
URENA, UBALDO SOLORIO,
RICHARD BERNARD--Creciendo
vegetables asombroso: Entienda a
crecer Los mejores vegetables en el
mundo
11
KATRINA BLAIR
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds and the
Integrity of Wild Seeds.
Learn from this expert plant hunter!
DOYLE
12 ALICE
The Most Exciting Vegetables to Grow
in Your Garden
Alice owns Log House Plants of Oregon,
one of the nation’s foremost providers
of rare bedding plants.
GREEN
1 KEN
VARIETY SHOW!
Hear about award winning unique
heirloom varieties, as well as the stories
written inside each seed. Ken is founder
of Hudson Valley Seed Library
Food Hall
DAVE MURPHY & ED BROWN
New Resistance: From GMO La10 Abeling
to Banning Glyphosate. How
gly-phosate, Monsanto’s weedkiller, took
over the world’s food supply, harms
human health and the environment.
11
12
1
FRAN MURRELL & CLAIRE BLEAKLEY
Seed Matters Aotearoa & Oceania-Our Farms, Our Food, Our Future!
Learn what these ladies are doing to
protect the food of Australia, New Zealand and all of the Pacific from GMOs!
NICK PAPADOPOULOS
Back to Basics, Community Engagement and Growing Local Food
System Sharing. Learn from the cofounder of CropMobster.com
RACHEL PARENT
The Impact Our Food Choices Have
on the Planet--A Teen’s Perspective
Join acclaimed teen food activist and
founder of “Kid’s Right to Know”
2
DANIEL IMHOFF
Farming With The Wild
Creating agricultural solutions that
work with, rather than against, nature.
Daniel is author of Food Fight.
3
GATES
3 BRAD
Extreme Tomatoes: Breeding, Grow-
PANEL: Dr. WILLIAM WOYS WEAVER,
DAVID KING and JERE GETTLE
The Future of Heirloom Seeds
Protecting and preserving these genet-ic
treasures for the future.
2
PANEL: JODI TORPEY, IAN NEALE,
KEVIN FORTEY and MORE!
Growing Record-Sized Vegetables
Enjoy the pleasures and rewards of
growing plus-sized produce with our
international panel of experts
ing,and What the Future Holds. Mr
Gates is a tomato farmer bringing new
tomato varieties to the world.
RILEY
4 COLUM
Go Beyond Organic: Crafting Biody-
4
namic Soils and Gardens
Learn all the good soil stuff from the
co-owner of Malibu Compost
5
LINDSAY GASIK
Traveling To fruit Hunt
Lindsay has been a fruit-focused vagabond for 5 yrs (YearoftheDurian.com)
DIETZ
6 DEBORAH
DAHLIAS 101: American Dahlia Society
senior judge shares a potpourri of
dahlia lore including, origins, genetic
diversity, pests, planting tips, & more
WOODY TASCH
Slow Money: Investing in Local Food
Systems. Woody Tasch is the found-er
and chairman of the Slow Money
Institute which has catalyzed the flow
of $46 million into 450 small food
enterprises.
5
PANEL: PAMM LARRY, KAREN
HUDSON AND BOB MCFARLAND
GMOs and What’s Happening Locally
in California
Get up to date on the local pure food
fight, labeling, seed laws and more.
6
PANEL: JEFFREY SMITH HOWARD
VLIEGER & OTHERS: THE GMO-FREE
DISCUSSION
Enjoy several leaders in the pure food
movement and learn how we are taking back our food supply
IAN NEALE & KEVIN FORTEY
LESLIE GOLDMAN: Special Ceremony
and Tricks For Record Sized Veg7 Tips
gies! Learn secrets from these Welsh 6:45
JEFFREY SMITH
gardeners of oversized produce.
7
Organic Diets Are Healing Familes
Improve your health by switching to
organic, non-GMO foods. Mr Smith is a
leader in the pure food movement
Speaker Schedule - Thursday, Sept 8
Farm Hall
STOCK
10 GROVER
Resource or Being: How do we
relate to our farm or garden Grover
is a long time organic food for-est
farmer, educator, and consultant.
11
12
RANDEL AGRELLA
Breaking into Commercial Seed
Growing. Learn to be a seed farmer
with seed production manager at
Baker Creek Seeds and long-time seed
saver from Northern Maine.
SARA PATTERSON
Make A Living on 2 Acres!
Sara started her CSA farm at age 14 in
rural, mountainous Utah. The farm
became the only source of income for
her family, and she is working to
change the politics in Utah & beyond.
Garden Hall
10 JOHN
JEAVONS
Food For The Future: Now
KATE FREY
Friendly Gardening
11 Bee
TULLEY
11 EARL
Learn how to make the bees happy
Soul of the soil
12
Have Hired Your First Farm Employee, Now What? Jennie has managed
sustainable farms for the past 11 years
FINCH
2 BETTY
Gourd Art Betty makes amazing
people and animals from the gourds
she works with.
2
BERNARD
3 RICHARD
Trialing, Selecting, & Storing Seeds
on the Farm
Learn the tricks of the trade from this
30-year veteran of the seed trade.
PANEL: SEED COMPANIES AND THE
SEED INDUSTRY IN AMERICA -OPEN
MEETING - Ken Greene, Jere Gettle
and more.
For members of the seed industry &
natural seed growers in general to
discuss challenges & issues they face.
BRONNER
5 DAVID
Healthy Farms, Healthy People,
Healthy Wages
Mr Bronner is CEO of Dr Bronner’s
soaps, and a leader in organic industry.
DR. RAJIV KUMAR SINHA
6 PROF.
Organic Farming by Vermiculture
For Production of Chemical-Free
Safe, & Nutritive Medica-Foods for
Mankind. Professor at Charotar
University of Science & Technology. Has
been credited for the development of a
New & Innovative Vermifiltration
Technology. Published 22 books and
over 150 scientific papers.
7
“SUSTAINABLE SANTA®”
Real Santas, doctors and farmers
markets team to curb an epidemic of
metabolic diseases in America’s
children and improve our diets.
Mr Jeavons is President and Director of
Ecology Action, with 43 years of biologically intensive farming experience
LONDON
1
1 JENNIE
Managing Farm Employees: So You
4
Food Hall
10 DR. RICHARD ECKFIELD
HOWARD VLIEGER
GMO History: Conspiracy or Reality
Since 1992 he has been a crop and
livestock nutrition advisor. Internationally
recognized speaker on GMOs.
and your garden healthy with this
award winning gardener.
Navajo/Diné tribal member of the Navajo
Nation. He will share family and clan teachings.
HELEN JUAREZ
Preserving Ancient Corn. Around
the world corn is known as a highly
valuable agricultural commodity, but for
Mexican and Central American population, it’s not a commodity; it is a central
element of our culture gastronomy.
DANA PERLS & LISA STOKKE
The Next Generation Of Genetic Engineering: The impacts of new
GMOs on agriculture, food and
farmers. Dana is the food and technology
campaigner with Friends of the Earth.
PANEL: DALETRON EBLACAS,
EVAN GREGOIRE AND FRIENDS
“Passing the Seeds to the Next Generation of Stewards”
What 6 Young Americans are doing
to teach the next generation of seed
stewards about seed sovereignty.
TIM LASALLE
Why Regenerative Agriculture?
Former CEO of Rodale Institute, Tim is
now a hunger and biological
conservation agriculture researcher
and trainer.
MCBRIDE
3 KAMI
THE HERBAL KITCHEN: Turn your
garden into a bounty of resource for
creating your home spice rack, home
apothecary and pantry full of delicious herbal foods and condiments.
4
STEPHEN SMITH
An Heirloom and Landrace Eden
Learn of rare and beautiful seeds
within his seedbank. From ancient
popcorn that is the ancestor to all corn
to the world’s most colorful beans and
many other rarities
JOHN VALENZUELA & FRIENDS
5 PANEL:
Growing exotic fruit in your backyard
Learn about the amazing and unusual, the exotic and bazaar, and the
sometimes easy to grow rare fruits!
PANEL: ARTHUR LEVINE,
6 SPANISH
MARIA ALONZO, MARIA MENDOZA
Imigrantes en la agricultura: que significa cultivar para otros y que significa
cultivar para uno mismo? (Huerta del
Valle es una organización de la comunidad basado en el sur de california
enfocado en justicia alimenticia, de la
salud y la sostenibilidad en la ciudad
más tóxica del Inland Empire)
12
1
2
RONNIE CUMMINS
How Conscious Farmers and
Consumers Can Reverse Climate
Change and Save Civilization. Mr.
Cummins is the founder & director of
the Organic Consumers Association
CHEF GINO CAMPAGNA
One Egg, One Cup of Flour
Chef Gino Campagna has been
spreading the gospel of good, homemade food for more than 18 years
now, and he knows what it takes to
raise American Families’ FOOD IQ.
PANEL: RACHEL PARENT, BIRKE
AND SARA PATTERSON
3 BAEHR
A Kid’s Food Fight
These young people are changing the
way we eat and opening eyes to food.
4
FINIAN MAKEPEACE ReGeneration,
the New Context for the Future of
Humanity
We will be diving deep into the concepts of regeneration versus sustainability and degeneration.
WILLIAM WOYS WEAVER
5 DR.
“Food and Place: How Heirlooms
Give Meaning to What We Eat” Learn
from America’s leading food historian and
author
HARI
6 VANI
Winning The Food Revolution,
Stories From The Field - Vani Hari,
Author & Activist from FoodBabe.com
7
PANEL: VANI HARI and the Investigative Team at US Right To Know!
Gary Ruskin, Stacy Malkan and Carey Gillam. How food and agrichemical industries, their front groups,
PR operatives and academics work
together to promote industry propaganda. This is a don’t-miss session.
heirloom
THE
NATIONAL
EXPOSITION
“The World’s Pure Food Fair” theheirloomexpo.com
Santa Rosa, California. Sep 6-8 th 2016