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Catch up with the recordings of recent Monadnock Farm & Community Coalition's forums and the 2022 Monadnock Earth Day Film Festival.
"Farm Free or Die" WATCH HERE
Farm Free or Die highlights the need for transformative agricultural policies that improve farming livelihoods and open market opportunities for carbon sequestration and removal. Farmers on the front lines and investors around the world identify carbon sequestration as their best weapon against severe environmental and economic adversity, while simultaneously creating immediate financial opportunities and incentives for innovation in the agtech industry. Directed and written by Roger Sorkin.
Johanna Evans, managing director of the American Resiliency Project, producer of the film joins Nicole Lederer, whose work as Chair and Co-Founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs is featured in the film, for a lively discussion with Laura Carbonneau of Food Connects. What are carbon markets? How do they work to incentivize farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture?
"Growing with the Grain" WATCH HERE
Upstate New York used to be a breadbasket of grain growing. Westward expansion yielded more ideal climates for growing and production shifted to the midwest. Scientists, farmers, bakers and brewers take part in a grain trial test that hopes to produce a new generation of grain suited for the northeast, bringing sustainable and more localized grain production back to the region. Sarah Cox, a Northeast Grainshed Alliance member and farmer, will lead a panel discussion following the film at 6:45pm. What is the NE Grainshed Alliance? How does it work? How can growers, distilleries, bakers, and brewers join the Grainshed movement?
Emcee: Sarah Cox, Tuckaway Farm, member of the Northeast Grainshed Alliance
Panelists: Sarah Brannen, Hudson Valley Food Hub and producer of “Growing with the Grain”, Kingston, NY
Christian and Andrea Stanley of Valley Malt/Ground Up Grain, Hadley, MA
Sam Temple, Fire Dog Breads, Keene
"Farmer Cee" WATCH HERE
Clarenda "Cee" Stanley is currently the CEO/President of Green Heffa Farms. From an agrarian family in Alabama's Black Belt, Cee did not see herself as a farmer. But in 2018, she co-founded Green Heffa Farms and was selected to be the 2019 Featured Farmer for Hemp History Week. However, in 2019, Cee also found herself being solely responsible for Green Heffa Farms and from there, she began to reimagine the legacy she wanted to leave for her children and grandchildren.
A panel discussion led by Melinda Mosier of NH Charitable Foundation will focus on the experiences and insights of two BIPOC farmers. The discussion will follow the screening of “Farmer Cee” at 6:47pm.
Emcee: Melinda Mosier, MFCC Board member, NH Charitable Foundation
Panelists:
Kyana Ferro, Susu CommUNITY Farm, Brattleboro, VT
Ferro farms at the SUSU commUNITY Farm, an Afro Indigenous stewarded farm and land based healing center in Southern Vermont that elevates Vermont’s land and foodways. Ky is a somatic earth worker, medicine maker, community herbalist & healer born and raised on Nipmuc lands in so-called Western Massachusetts.
Hari Maya Adhikari, Fresh Start Farms, Manchester, NH
Adhikari is a member of the Fresh Start New American Farmers Co-op that sells and distributes the products she grows. Hari was born in small town in Western part of Nepal called Dhangadhi, Kailali Nepal, where her family always grew their own vegetables. Though, she earned in Masters in Vocals in India, her passion for farming landed her in the US in 2011 to farm at the NH Technical Institute and on to Fresh Start Farms in Manchester.
