Conference

NOFA-NY’s 38th Annual Winter Conference is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with sustainability-minded farmers, gardeners, and consumers. The conference is one of the largest in the region with more than 1,100 attendees annually, plus more than 100 educational workshops and an approximate 80 trade show vendors. This year, we are combining our two flagship events - the Winter Conference and the 9th Annual Organic Dairy and Field Crop Conference into one weekend - bringing you the highest level of programming possible. We hope to see you there!

Regenerative Earth Summit
Soil + Water + Climate

Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex
University of Colorado, Boulder

“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics”
~ David Attenborough

Heritage Livestock Conference: All Things Sheep!

October 25-26, 2019 in Santa Rosa, California

Topics include:

• Targeted Grazing
• Holistic Management
• Fiber Production
• Natural Wool Dying
• Conservation breeding
• Marketing sheep and sheep products

Do you have personal experience that you'd like to share or question that you want answered?

Join us on Saturday for 3 interactive panel discussions with experts:

Our next fall conference (October 10-13) will be in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope you will come! Facing Each Other: Freedom, Responsibility, and Love, is filled with rich content, artistic work, and opportunities to deepen and connect. Beginning with a Class Lesson enriched by artistic activity, through keynote conversations (with Patrick Kennedy and Andrea De La Cruz), this event will enliven you. Workshops feature biography, diversity, honey bees, connecting with the dead, the divine feminine, and more.

12–17 January 2020 at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland
Knowledge and tools for those carrying responsibility in the biodynamic movement 

Are you looking for tools, methods and an exchange of experiences to:

Unfolding potential – building capacity for a common development in biodynamics
7–9 November 2019 at the Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland

In November 2019 the Goetheanum is hosting a three-day conference on worldwide biodynamic training and further education. Sharing personal experience contributes to realising our own potential, and extending our knowledge and methods creates new resources and inspiration for further development.

Each year in February, the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America hosts a gathering of early childhood professionals for the purpose of sharing ideas, deepening their understanding, and strengthening their skills. This conference has become the largest professional development event for the Waldorf early childhood movement on this continent, with attendance of 400 participants annually. 

Our conference theme in 2020 is The Art of Educating - Individuality and Community with keynote speaker Lisa Romero from the Inner Work Path in Australia.

February 12-15, 2020 | Corvallis, Oregon

The Common Ground Country Fair is delighted to be one of the most popular destinations in Maine each fall. Annually almost 60,000 visitors enjoy the Common Ground Country Fair. 

If you’ve ever been to the Common Ground Country Fair, you know – and if you haven’t been, anyone who has will tell you – it's an event like no other, that brings together so many people from so many walks of life, all in the spirit of celebrating the rural and agricultural traditions of Maine.

August 9-11, 2019 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Nutrition Matters | Soil Health Builds Human Health

Even as Hampshire College is going through a tumultuous period, their summer schedule is business as usual. We are grateful that they are sticking it out even while things are rocky and we have constant communication with them as they manage their way forward. We hope they find a solution to their woes that gives them long term stability and allows their cutting edge culture of creativity to continue to thrive.