Tool Dude's Blog: 2012 NOFA NY Winter Conference

January 19th - 21st, Johnny's Selected Seeds attended, exhibited, sponsored, and presented at the 2012 NOFA NY Winter Conference. There was quite a turnout - over 1,400 farmers in attendance.

I co-presented with Anton Burkett of Early Morning Farm and Niechelle Wade of Sunny Hill Farm in an all-day intensive workshop entitled, "SEASON EXTENSION: Tunnels of All Shapes and Sizes".

My slide show was broken up into three parts, illustrating our trials, success, failures, and product launches associated with low tunnels, small high tunnels, and moveable tunnels (i.e.: the Quick Hoops Bender line and the supplies to support it), and it took almost three hours to present. I also did a hoopbending demonstration in one corner of the cafeteria.

Slide show presentation in one of the ballrooms.

Our demo set up. A low tunnel bender on one end and a high tunnel bender on the other.

I wanted this to be an interactive experience and people got right into it.
NY sales rep, Amber Flint, helps hold the table.

Beth Spaugh of Rehoboth Homestead in Peru, NY stepped up and said, "I want to see if I can do this."
She could, and the crowd applauded her efforts after she completed a hoop.

I wanted to be able to convey that information, because it was a lot to put together, so here are links to all the slides I used and their corresponding notes. Each bullet in the notes (for the most part) will correspond with and individual slide, and the slides are all in order. Following along should be pretty easy, except for the tunnel construction photos, which were mostly ad libbed.

Part 1 - Low Tunnels - Click here for notes.