Regenerative Agriculture: How can businesses work in collaboration with the land?
Join VBSR June 14 as we learn from experts and enjoy
music, networking, food, drinks, and fun!
King Arthur Baking in Norwich, VT
The VBSR People.Planet.Prosperity. Speaker Series presents
Regenerative Agriculture: How can businesses work in collaboration with the land?
When: June 14, 2022 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: King Arthur Baking, 135 U.S. 5, Norwich, VT, 05055
- Please join us for the first event in our VBSR People.Planet.Prosperity. Speaker Series. This series will consist of panels focused on leading-edge topics that are important to our members with experts and innovators from the business community.
- King Arthur Baking will host our inaugural VBSR People.Planet.Prosperity. Speaker Series in-person event on the increasing importance of Regenerative Agriculture, how they have embraced it, and why it should be incorporated it into your business.
- The panel will be followed by an outdoor patio reception where attendees can network, reflect on what we’ve learned, and meet our panelists - while enjoying food, drink, and live music.
To start we will hear from a panel of experts on their organization’s approach to regenerative agriculture from 4:30 – 5:30 pm followed by a reception from 5:30 – 7:30 pm on King Arthur Baking’s outdoor patio where folks can network, reflect on what we’ve learned, and meet our panelists. There will be a bar run by SILO Distillery with cocktails, cider, beer and wine that will accept cash or credit. King Arthur Baking will also provide FREE pizza, cookies, salad, iced tea, and lemonade as well as live music by Beecharmer!
This event is also kid-friendly to accommodate those traveling from other parts of the state. There will be a kid-friendly activity outside during the panel and kid-friendly snacks available during the reception. There will be outdoor seating available, but please feel free to bring lawn chairs and picnic blankets if you would like to spread out!
Meet Our Speakers
Will Allen (he/him)
Farm Co-Founder, Board Member
at Cedar Circle Farm
Heather Darby (she/her)
Extension Professor: Agronomy Specialist at University of Vermont Extension
Julie Davenson (she/her)
President of the Board of Directors at NOFA-NH
Producer Network Coordinator at Southshire Meats
Farmer Network Director at the
Regenerative Food Network
Will Raap (he/him)
Chairman/Founder of Gardener’s Supply Company
Founder of Intervale Center
Owner of Earthkeep Farmcommon
Mollie Wills (she/they)
Grassroots Organizing Director at Rural Vermont
"Regenerative agriculture is a philosophy, a methodology, and a scientific approach to land management. Its guidelines and teachings ask us, 'How can we work in collaboration with the land?' instead of 'What can we get from the land?'"
– Emily Marquis and Don Smith, Kiss the Ground
"We define regenerative agriculture practices as those which improve soil health, increase biodiversity, sequester atmospheric carbon, reduce water pollution, and increase community well-being. These same practices help farmers to both mitigate and adapt to climate change by storing carbon, building resilience to extreme weather, diversifying crops, and eliminating chemical inputs. And, as regenerative agriculture advances, it will become a profitable model - in both economy and ecology - for the future of farming. Good science, good land stewardship, a better future for Vermont agriculture, and for the earth."
- Earthkeep Farmcommon
United States