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Edible Landscaping: How To Transform Your Yard Into A Food Forest
Urban gardener Jayme Melrose explains many ways to make your lawn and edible and beautiful food resource at the 2011 ACORN organic conference and trade show in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (59 mins)
Food Skills
Emerging Opportunities: Growing Biodynamic Haskap Berries with Loggie Cassell
Fruit & Berry
Encouraging on farm Biodiversity
Paul Manning presents at the 2015 Acorn Conference
To view the accompanying slideshow presentation, click here: http://fr.slideshare.net/acornorganic/encouraging-on-farm-biodiversity
ACORN Conference, Complementary Agriculture
Encouraging Swifts and Swallows on the Organic Farm
Ally Manthorne presents at the 2015 Acorn Conference.
To view the accompanying slideshow presentation, click here: http://fr.slideshare.net/acornorganic/encouraging-swifts-and-swallows-on-the-organic-farm
ACORN Conference, Complementary Agriculture
Equipping for Efficiency
Tim Livingstone (Strawberry Hill Farm) presents at the 2014 ACORN Conference.
View Tim Livingstone's slideshow here.
ACORN Conference, Infrastructure & Equipment
Establishing Haskap Orchards
Andy Hammermeister presents at the 2016 ACORN Conference.
View the accompanying slideshow presentation here.
ACORN Conference, Fruit & Berry
Year: 2016
Ethical Veal
Emily Shapiro presents at the 2016 ACORN Conference.
ACORN Conference, Livestock
Year: 2016
Evaluation of Compost Teas for Disease Management of Wild Blueberries in Nova Scotia with Dr. Kathleen Glover
Soil & Compost
Exceptional Customer Service
Presented by Michelle Wolf (Director of Training FMNS) at the 2015 ACORN Conference PEI
Access slideshow here
ACORN Conference, Business & Marketing, Value-Added
Experiences in a Grain Co-operative
In this presentation from the 2013 ACORN Conference in Moncton, Loic Dewavrin discusses how he helped found a grain cooperative in Quebec, touching on the benefits and challenges of small producers banding together. The talk covers the creation of the co-op, the reasons for starting, the current projects they are undertaking, and their hopes for growth and future work.
ACORN Conference, Business & Marketing, Grain & Field Crops, Infrastructure & Equipment
Exploring Open-pollinated and Local Seed: Resource List
This resource list was developed for the learning series Exploring Open-pollinated and Local Seed, hosted in 2026 by our partner The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security, a program of SeedChange.
The learning series includes 9 videos all available on ACORN's searchable resource library. They are:
A Brief History of the Seed Trade in the Northeast
Scaling Seed Security
Contract Growing
Seed Diversity in Canada
Why Diverse and OP Seed?
The Adaptive Power of OP Seed
Why I Save Seeds
Integrating Seed Production at Broadfork Farm
Challenges and Opportunities of On-farm Seed Saving
Seed
Year: 2026
Extending the Harvest: Growing More Vegetables in a Short Season
At the 2016 Homesteading Symposium in Moncton, Alyson Chisholm of Windy Hill Farm explained what options there are for extending your garden’s season and maintaining a continuous harvest.
Getting Started With Organic Farming, Grain & Field Crops, Horticulture, Season Extension, Urban Farming & Gardening
Year: 2016
Farm Budgets Made Simple
In this talk from the 2013 ACORN Conference, Richard Wiswall breaks down the most important aspects of calculating farm budgets. He uses the example of keeping 50 laying hens to demonstrate that a venture may not be as profitable as one would assume. He emphasizes the importance of calculating your own labour costs.
ACORN Conference, Business & Marketing, Getting Started With Organic Farming
Farm Business Succession Plan
Business & Marketing
Farm Profile: Organic Strawberry Production at Mountaindale Farm
Fruit & Berry