Join Us for the NOFA-NH's 22nd Winter Conference
Saturday, February 10 at SNHU
CLICK HERE for the complete schedule of the many diverse workshops and to Register
We will again be the bookseller for the workshops and the Keynote
Welcome Philip Ackerman-Leist as the 2024 Keynote Speaker!
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH) is excited to announce Philip Ackerman-Leist as the 2024 Keynote Speaker for our 22nd Annual Winter Conference!
Philip is a “free range educator” with a passion for exploring food systems innovation and conservation initiatives around the world. Philip is the author of A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement; Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems; and Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader.
Philip spent two decades as Professor of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems at Green Mountain College, where he built the nation’s first online graduate program in food systems, an undergraduate program in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, and a 23-acre organic farm. He then served as Dean of Professional Studies and Director of the New American Farmstead at Sterling College. Philip currently works with The Lexicon as the Head of Editorial.
He has farmed in the Italian Alps, North Carolina, and Vermont. He now raises American Milking Devon cattle on his family’s off-grid homestead at UpTunket Farm in Pawlet, Vermont, the base for Foodshed Solutions LLC.