National Farm Viability Conference

The National Farm Viability Conference is a great place to meet your peers, share your ideas, learn new skills and build your professional network. Wouldn’t it be great if those activities could continue once the conference is over? In this session we will explore possibilities for building ongoing peer to peer support networks. In the first half of the session we will hear from John Fisk of the Wallace Center regarding their experiences building a support network among food hub practitioners, and from Dorothy Suput of the Carrot Project and executive committee member of the Blueprint Project, on efforts to support farm viability practitioners in the northeastern US. The latter half of the session will feature group discussions focused on ways we might build similar networks in other regions, or even a national network. Come prepared to share your vision for a community of practice: What might this community look like? How might you benefit from such a network? What do you have to offer? What steps would you be willing to take to make that vision a reality?  Working together, we can increase our collective impact and better serve the needs of our clients.