From the organizer: Attend InTents: The Farmers Market Conference 2021 live online to make your farmers market, farm or food business stronger and more profitable, reduce stress and expand your revenue streams! Network, learn and compare notes: Gain new perspectives from fellow farmers, business owners and market managers. Explore the Resource Lounges Discover new ingredients, [...]
In these times it feels like the world is crumbling around us and there’s little we can do to stop it and move forward. But there is a foundation of solidarity, cooperation, and mutual aid that has been at the core of our communities for generations; and in these times we must lean on that [...]
Help us close out a successful Food and Farm Forum with this community celebration. Connect with other attendees through a “speed friending” activity and meet the wonderful folks who make ASAN’s network so strong. Next, dance to your heart’s content at our virtual dance party, featuring our very own DJ! We’ll see you there! Click [...]
Join us in this youth-only (14-24) social space to connect and kick back with other young folks in ASAN’s network. Meet a potential pen pal from across the state or find a new nearby friend. This session will be designed and facilitated by ASAN’s Youth Council. Click here to see full session descriptions Save the dates, and [...]
Join us for a peer-to-peer share on the subject of growing your own feed, or supplementary feed, for livestock/poultry. Topics covered may include: growing grain for feed, determining feed mix ratios, using by-products like spent brewers grain, raising mealworms and black soldier flies, and more. This session will offer an opportunity for you to share [...]
As BIPOC folks, this year, and every year living with unrelenting racial violence, has been exhausting; we need spaces and places to rest and restore. This huddle hopes to be one of those spaces. We will spend time grounding in our bodies, processing this year, and visioning around ways ASAN can support BIPOC members through [...]
Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) and other ways to build direct farmer/consumer relationships Direct-to-consumer sales, and especially farm subscription arrangements, have immense benefits for farmers, including maximizing profit margins, increasing farmer cash flow early in the season, and facilitating consumer feedback, consumer education, and community-building. During COVID, we’ve seen a boom in CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) [...]
Description coming soon! This session is organized by and for youth but is open to any and all attendees willing to respect youth-centric space. Host: Ontrel Tate (ASAN Youth Council) Click here to see full session descriptions Save the dates, and make plans now to join us in December! We’re so excited to see you [...]
Five individual White landowners in America own more rural land than all of Black America combined. Systematic discrimination that has plagued Black America for centuries is reflected in the restrictions, threats, and erosions of Black land ownership. So, if we are to build a just, equitable, and sustainable food system, the issue of Black land [...]
Calling all Queer folks! We need some “us” time where our identities are not only respected, but celebrated. This huddle hopes to be a space of respite, to ground in our bodies, process the year, and vision ways ASAN can support our queer base through the burgeoning Justice Committee–because we deserve a future where our [...]
