Connecticut Soil Health Symposium Feb. 10, Meriden (register by 2/3/26)

American Farmland Trust and Connecticut Resource Conservation & Development Area (CT RC&D) invite you to participate in a farmer-to-farmer Soil Health Symposium to learn and share about innovative soil health practices on livestock and vegetable farms.

The program will feature concurrent farmer-led workshop tracks and roundtable sessions for livestock and vegetable farmers, exploring innovative and effective practices for accelerating soil health gains. Featured speaker Chuck Currie of Freedom Food Farm (Raynham, MA) will share his approach to growing produce, grains, eggs, pasture-raised meat using holistic and regenerative practices.

Vegetable, Flowers & Specialty Crops Track topics will include: cover crop successions for residue building and weed management, multispecies cover crop mixes, using cover crops for living mulches, no- and low-till cover crop termination methods, and farm-hacked equipment for planting into living mulch systems.

Livestock Track topics will include: high and low tech hacks for facilitating prescribed grazing on the farm, grazing in silvopasture systems, using bale grazing to support soil health and prescribed grazing goals, and planning and implementing a successful pasture reseeding.