Guest Speakers
Guest Speakers
We are lucky to have over a dozen guest speakers, including
- Farmers discussing crop planning, loan options, finances, livestock, running a seed business and the details of their farms
- OFTP graduates sharing their Farm Business Plans, Community Farm Plans and Homestead Plans and discussing their farms
- MSU professors and staff leading hands-on activities like pruning & beekeeping
- MSU Extension educators discussing food safety or leading a crop disease farm walk
2025 Guest Speakers
Thank you to our 2025 Guests Speakers:
- Ant Head of Down to Earth Detroit
- Jackie Lindsey of Imaginative Minds, LLC and Sol Garden Creations
- Sean Garvey from Clarkston Farm
- Parker Jean from Sanctuary Farms
- Dan Belprez of Two Sparrows Farm
- Derrienne Reese of Asibara Forest
- Jenny Balmes from Michigan Flower Friend
- Andy Chae from Fisheye Farms
- Lisa Krause of Roots & Sky Ecological Design & Permaculture Homestead
- Shara Trierweiler of Agape Organic Farm
- Molly Hubbell of Keep Growing Detroit
- Devon Wilson of Sunlight Gardens
- Shane Bernardo of Why Hunger and numerous other organizations
- Nan'Chang Thompson-Springer of Urban Bush Sistah's
- Sarah Longstreth of Good Stead Farm
- Joannée DeBruhl
- Micah Hutchison of Michigan Produce Safety
- Morgan Anderson of Michigan Produce Safety
- Meghan Milbrath of MSU Pollinator Performance Center & MI Pollinator Initiative
- Lance Kraai of New City Neighbors
- Brittney Rooney from Beaverland Farms
- Brian Bates from Bear Creek Organic Farm
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