Friday, January 17, 2025

Back to Basics Sustainable Living Event

 The 19th Annual Back to Basics Sustainable Living Event from Happy Dancing Turtle will be Saturday, Feb. 15 at Pine River-Backus School in Pine River. Register for a full day of workshops ($40) and lunch or for individual workshops ($9 each). Keynote and vendor/exhibitor fair are free of charge and require no registration.

Some highlights:
1G. Soil Health: The Key to Fixing the Problems of Our World with Jim Etzel, Earth is Our Home Environmental Solutions

1M. Carbon Credit Cash Now with Kent Scheer, Green Island Preserve

2A. Nature-based Solutions & Climate Resiliency with Brennan Blue, Great River Greening

3B. Grazing as a Soil Strategy: Enhancing Ecosystems & Profitability with Thomas Stattelman, Stattelman Ranch; Aly Bergstrom, Cass County SWCD; and Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle

5B Biometeorology: Soil & Plants to Slow Water & Cool Our Climate with Dr. Katie Ross, University of Technology Sydney and Jim Chamberlin, Happy Dancing Turtle 

Two workshops will be offered by Julia & Jonathan Carter, University of Minnesota's Farm Family of the Year for Hubbard County: 3D. Our Story, Your Questions About Our Dairy Experience and 5A. Making Cheese in Your Homestead Dairy

Keynote will be "Rewriting the Rural Narrative" with University of Minnesota Rural Sociologist Benjamin Winchester. 

For full schedule, workshop listings (57 workshops in all) and registration, go to: happydancingturtle.org/back-to-basics-workshops. A pdf of the event's brochure is attached.

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