Hosted by PennPraxis, the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Weitzman School of Design at Penn, the Farm of the Future Symposium gathers diverse expertise to generate ideas, and evaluate opportunities and challenges for sustainable agriculture, by looking at exemplary projects and strategies: Farms of the Future that are redefining practice, teaching farms, One Health agriculture campuses, cutting edge architecture, soil and waste strategies.
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9:15am: Coffee
10:00am: Opening
Andy Hoffman, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine
10:30am: ONE HEALTH PARADIGM
Sierra Bainbridge, MASS Design Group
One Health research and the campus design for the Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture
11:30am: SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
Kelly Mulville, Paicines Ranch
Holistic design and practice for ecosystem mimicry and resilient agriculture
Ben Dobson, Hudson Carbon
Carbon farming, scaling up experimental work and demonstration
Tim Popa, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
Enhancing function, legibility of systems, and beauty of working farms, and the Fuller Center for Productive Landscapes
12:45pm: Q+ A, Lunch and Discussion
2:00pm: RESEARCH AND TEACHING FARMS: PLACES OF DEMONSTRATION
Sibella Kraus, SAGE Sustainable Agriculture Education
Best practices and designing for education in places of demonstration
Jeff Moyer, Rodale Institute
Advancing the organic farming movement through research, farmer training and consumer education
3:40pm: RESEARCH AND TEACHING FARMS: PLACES OF DEMONSTRATION
Scott Erdy, Erdy McHenry Architects
Design of the acclaimed Cornell Teaching Dairy Barn
Halina Steiner, Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State
Designing water systems landscapes for technical performance and legibility - collaboration and prototyping
Forbes Lipschitz, Initiative for Food and Agricultural Transformation and Landscape Architecture, Ohio State
Rethinking the Waterman Agricultural and Natural Resources Laboratory, Ohio State's research farm and dairy, as a multi-disciplinary test bed
5:00pm: Close of Program
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