The author of the critically acclaimed new book, “Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life,” will speak at our July gathering of farmers, researchers, agriculture service providers, government agencies, non-profits and policy-makers.
David R. Montgomery will address the New York Soil Health Summit on July 18 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY.
Montgomery traveled extensively for his latest book that draws on visits with farmers from Kansas to Ghana. Through those conversations some common threads emerged about practices to restore soil health and fertility.
Montgomery found that no till planting, maintaining cover crops, and diverse crop rotation practices were common among the farmers that had restored degraded soils and returned profitability to their farms.
The daylong summit will host 20 expert panelists and speakers. Speakers include researchers from Cornell University and the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service; non-profit leaders from The Nature Conservancy, Northeast Organic Farming Association, American Farmland Trust, New York Farm Bureau, and the New York Farm Viability Institute; farmers from New York; and government leaders.
David Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington. He is the author of three popular-science books on soil.
Registration information and a detailed agenda can be found on the here.