Food & Climate Panel: Beyond Carbon Markets

Join NOFA-NH and Seacoast Permaculture for a panel discussion and Q&A that asks: if not carbon markets and other payment for ecosystem (PES) programs, then what would work to support farmers who responsibly care for our ecosystem while feeding people? A previous panel addressed issues with current carbon market and PES programs and the challenges of trying to monetize carbon sequestration or best ecological farming practices.

In this program, we welcome back our panelists to look at the alternatives we know work and ones being proposed that hold promise to truly support healthy growing practices. How we grow food has serious implications for the climate, biodiversity and human health. We need to make changes now, whether on our own farms or by supporting growers as they shift practices. There are solutions - let's talk about how to reach them!

Featuring:

Cat Buxton of Birch Forest Farm in Sharon VT runs Grow More, Waste Less, focused on community resilience built from the ground up. She works with Regeneration Corps to engage high-school-aged students, Upper Valley Apple Corps in planting free-for-the-picking fruit and nut trees, and is co-founder of the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition.

Stephen Leslie is co-manager of Cedar Mountain Farm & Cobb Hill Cheese co., both located at Cobb Hill Co-housing in Hartland, VT. Stephen is a soil health advocate & farmer activist. He is a writer of numerous articles and two books on farming with draft horses.

Earl Hatley is a co-founder and Board President of LEAD Agency, Inc., a predominantly Native American grassroots organization in northeastern OK. LEAD Agency is a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, and from 2003-2021 Mr. Hatley served as the Grand Riverkeeper. Earl currently serves as board member for Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition, and Rural Vermont, is a member of the VT Environmental Justice Advisory Committee and President of the board for Ottauquechee Water Protectors Association in Quechee VT.

Julie Davenson is a NOFA NH board member and served as the Executive Director of Stonewall Farm for 7 years where she transitioned the farm into an innovative demonstration HUB for regenerative agriculture. She trained in holistic management with the Savory Institute.

Caroline Gordon is the Legislative Director of Rural Vermont. She is engaged in changing the law so that sustainable farming practices become economically viable and wants to maintain farming in a way that increases communal participation and collaboration among producers.

COST: A donation of any amount is asked to support SP & NOFA-NH's work. You can sign up here then pay at https://www.seacoastnhpermaculture.org/ or by check to Seacoast Permaculture, 219 France Rd, Barrington NH 03825.

Learn more about our partner NOFA-NH (The Northeast Organic Farming Association of NH at https://www.nofanh.org/