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Welcome to the 2019 Young Farmers Conference! Please be sure to register for each session you plan to attend, as capacity is limited. Also make sure to edit your schedule if you decide you no longer want to attend a session so that others have a chance to add it to their schedule.

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Leah Penniman

Soul Fire Farm Institute, Inc
Co-Director
Websitesoulfirefarm.org
Leah Penniman is a Black Kreyol educator, farmer/peyizan, author, and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY. She co-founded Soul Fire Farm in 2011 with the mission to end racism in the food system and reclaim our ancestral connection to land.

My Speakers Sessions

Thursday, December 5
 

9:15am EST

Field Day: Explore the entire Stone Barns campus and participate in hands-on activations and action-oriented conversations for beginning farmers. Stone Barns CenterJose Morquecho • Jack Algiere • Karen Washington • Julia Shanks • Adam Lemieux • John DiMarco • Maggie Schwed • William Padilla-Brown • Ariana Taylor-Stanley • Leah Penniman • Rowen White • William F Brinton • Fred Kirschenmann • Laura Perkins • Jovan Sage • Christine Su • Roger Brady • David Howard • Çaca Yvaire • Stephanie Morningstar • Meghan Goria • Nicolas Enjalbert • Kate Cox • Tom Philpott • Maddie Oatman • Shane Hardy • Kelly Landrieu • Jared Tomlin • Michael Mazourek • Taylor Cocalis • Dorothy Neagle • Caitlin Arnold • Kara Whelan • Tania Cubberly • Trevor Swope

1:45pm EST

Farming While Black HayloftLeah Penniman