ACAM Farmer-Led Field Day September 25, 2024

Join us as we visit sustainable farmers and ranchers who are leading conservation
agriculture in their own operations, in their communities and in the industry. During the farmer-led field day experience, you’ll hear from Olivia Fuller, a New York farmer at Fuller Acres, who will share challenges and successes in implementing conservation practices on-the-ground and education around regenerative grazing, diversification and soil health.

This programming is free with your registration and includes a free lunch.

7:30 a.m. Registration opens

8:00 a.m. Welcome

8:30 a.m. Rotating Learning Sessions, featuring:

Session #1 - Talking Conservation: Deciding to Protect Our Farm with Agricultural Conservation Easement + Grazing Management with Beef and Sheet, Utilizing Conservation Programs and Partners

Session #2 - Diversifying Your Operation: Pasture Pork, Maple Syrup and Log-Grown Shiitake Mushroom Production + Diversifying Sales Channels with Farm Club Memberships, Vacation Home Deliveries and a
Self-Serve Farm Store

Session #3 - Ag Stewardship and Soil Health (American Farmland Trust)

Session #4 - Agricultural Environmental Management (Washington Co Soil and Water
Conservation District)

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. America’s Conservation Ag Movement Presentations

2:00 p.m. Pasture Walk Hosted by Agricultural Stewardship Association

Hosted by Conservation Steward Olivia Fuller:

Olivia Fuller is a next-generation farmer stewarding her fourth- generation family farm, Fuller Acres, located in the Welch Hollow valley of Fort Ann, New York. Raised on a dairy farm, Olivia struggled to see how she could return to the farm and have a profitable farm business. As the only heir and last chance for her family’s farm to continue as her dad neared retirement, Olivia and partner Thomas Hughes found a way to transition the farm so that it worked for their generation and suited their skills, while working in partnership with the senior generation. Now, they focus on rotational grazing, stewarding their land and resources and selling beef, pork, and maple syrup direct to consumer.

America’s Conservation Ag Movement presents