Dale Strickler

Dr. Elizabeth Heilman

2025 Northeast Luminary Tour at Wolfe's Neck Center

Wolfe's Neck Center

Join us for the 2025 Northeast Luminary Tour Series! We are excited to welcome Dale Strickler & Dr. Elizabeth Heilman as speakers.

184 Burnett Rd

2025 New England Grazing Network Northeast Luminar

Join us for the 2025 Northeast Luminary Tour! Learn more about each session in this collection through each individual event.

THE WORKSHOP: The New England Grazing Network presents the 2025 Luminary Tour featuring Dale Strickler and Dr. Elizabeth Heilman of Regenerative Wisdom. Attend this comprehensive full-day workshop, blending hands-on field experiences with classroom learning, to discover how to cultivate more resilient farms, ecosystems, communities, and ourselves as individual farmers. Our presenters will delve into practical strategies for enhancing farm resilience, exploring numerous approaches that have been tested and researched. Dale and Elizabeth will present on the significance and methods of establishing robust pasture systems, and how these systems positively impact farm businesses and local communities. Join us for field and classroom based conversations regarding how to build resilience, cultivate grit, and develop effective self-management for decision-making on your farm. A list of just some of the topics to be discussed at this event:<ul><li>Restoring water cycles &amp; watershed health</li><li>Building Social and Emotional Resilience for flourishing farms and communities</li><li>Innovative fencing &amp; water system design</li><li>Boosting pasture diversity</li><li>Integrating warm-season forage grasses</li><li>Growing nutrient-dense food through soil biology</li><li>Self-management and Peer support</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3>THE LUMINARIES:</h3>Dale Strickler is an internationally recognized agronomist, speaker and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in agronomy, pasture management, and soil and crop advising while working in academia as in private industry. Dale has developed highly effective crop and grazing systems for numerous farms and ranches with a range of often challenging climates and soil types. Dale has consulted in every region of the USA and as far away as Hungary and South Africa. He is the author of the best-selling books, Drought Resilient Farm, Managing Pasture, and The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil, which was named a top ten farming book by Modern Farmer.Dr. Elizabeth Heilman is a co-founder of Regenerative Wisdom and ecology educator with over three decades of experience. Her work integrates human and ecosystem ecology with social and political contexts, focusing on soil health, water cycle restoration, local food systems, and community-based regenerative practices for sustainable living. Elizabeth is also a professor of ecology and science education at Wichita State University. Elizabeth has authored five books and over 60 articles, and has delivered keynotes at events such as the Soil and Water Conservation Society, NCAT, and Farm to Fork conferences in Missouri and Virginia. She brings a unique perspective that connects environmental health with emotional well-being, offering insights into building resilient communities and ecosystems.Learn more about our speakers at <a href="https://www.regenerativewisdom.com/" title="https://www.regenerativewisdom.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Regenerative Wisdom.</a>The Luminary Tour is organized by the<a href="https://www.negrazingnetwork.com/2025-northeast-luminary-tour/" title="https://www.negrazingnetwork.com/2025-northeast-luminary-tour/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> New England Grazing Network</a> and supported by:<ul><li>Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture &amp; the Environment</li><li>Vermont Grass Farmers Association</li><li>UMaine Extension</li><li>Granite State Graziers</li><li>Cornell Cooperative Extension – Capital Area Ag &amp; Hort Program</li><li>Berkshire Agricultural Ventures</li><li>Northeast Pasture Consortium</li><li>Northeast Grass-Fed Beef Initiative</li></ul> <h3>GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY:</h3>This program is generously supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement NR243A750008C009 and The Cedar Tree Foundation

Agenda

Welcome- Plan for the Day

Farm and life choices can be more driven by emotion than by logic. Why do we feel more comfortable with something familiar that we know is not right than with something new that we know would be better? Learn how to master perceived threats to safety, esteem, belonging and justice. Dr. Heilman explores the human psyche and offers practical strategies to help you flourish.

Building Social and Emotional Resilience for flourishing farms and communities

 There are dozens of grazing strategies pitched by “grazing gurus” from around the world. Which one is best?  The answer is the one you create, once you understand basic plant growth principles to develop your own grazing strategy that fits your own goals and context. Includes demonstrations of different grazing management tools. 

Pasture Walk: Grazing Management Strategies that Work for You

Lunch

In theory, if we can create a robust soil microbiology, the microbes can unlock the vast reserves of unavailable soil nutrients in every soil and make it available for plants, and make application of commercial fertilizers unnecessary. The question is, how do we get to that point from where we are now, and how do we know where we are on the journey?  

Discussion: Don't buy fertilizer, grow it!

 Can your community grow and build more than it buys? Learn how farmers are  growing multiple, synergistic products like milk, meat, eggs, honey, grains, and vegetables on the same land for greater profits and a richer ecosystem. Farmers markets, canning and freezing facilities, and Local groceries are increasing exponentially, and can even be under the same roof. Innovation in 3-D printing and digital technology make local manufacturing and food processing an affordable reality. Learn from the success stories of other farms and communities around the nation.  

Connecting food systems for a flourishing local community

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