More than 20 informative and educational breakout sessions are available to participants during the Anniversary Celebration! Breakout sessions are listed by time below.

Printable descriptions of the breakout sessions are available here!

Please select the breakout sessions you wish to attend when you register for the conference.

Sessions by Time

Breakout Session 1 (10-11:00 a.m.)

• 4. Fish Bowl Discussion: On-Farm Energy Conservation
• 7. Healthy People and Landscapes: Iowa's Future Food System
• 12. Maintaining the Land's Capacity for Self-Renewal
• 17. Rethinking Agriculture for Healthier Soil and Water
• 20. Twenty Years of Organic Agriculture: Sustainable Impacts
• 22. America's Lost Landscape, the Tallgrass Prairie

Breakout Session 2 (12:30-1:30 p.m.)

• 2. Ash Recovery: Closing the Loop in Biofuel Production
• 8. Developing a Vibrant, Sustainable Regional Food System: The Case of Northeast Iowa
• 11. Building Local Food Networks in Iowa: Progress and Potential
• 13. Opportunities for Beginning As Well As Begin-Again Farmers
• 14. Fish Bowl Discussion: Diversification on the Farm, in Rural Communities
• 18. Rethinking Agriculture for a Living Land
• 23. Telling the Sustainable Agriculture Story

Breakout Session 3 (1:45-2:45 p.m.)

• 3. New Cropping Systems for Cellulosic Feedstock Production and Environmental Stewardship
• 6. Planning an Energy-Efficient Landscape for Iowa: A Systems Approach
• 9. Fish Bowl Discussion: A Walk Across the Food System
• 15. No Child Left Inside: Helping the Next Generation Discover a Sense of Place
• 19. Rethinking Agriculture for Healthier Plants and Animals
• 21. Learning from the Legacy of Aldo Leopold
• 22. America's Lost Landscape, the Tallgrass Prairie

Breakout Session (3:30-4:30 p.m.)

• 1. Harnessing the Wind
• 5. Create Your Own Virtual Farm for Biomass
• 10. Food Preparation Demonstration: Iowa Local Foods Show
• 11. Building Local Food Networks in Iowa: Progress and Potential
• 16. Policies to Help Farmers Move toward Ecologically Sound, Profitable Farming
• 23. Telling the Sustainable Agriculture Story
  

Sessions by Track

• 1. Harnessing the Wind
• 2. Ash Recovery: Closing the Loop in Biofuel Production
• 3. New Cropping Systems for Cellulosic Feedstock Production and Environmental Stewardship
• 4. Fish Bowl Discussion: On-Farm Energy Conservation
• 5. Create Your Own Virtual Farm for Biomass
• 6. Planning an Energy-Efficient Landscape for Iowa: A Systems Approach

Food and Health

• 7. Healthy People and Landscapes: Iowa's Future Food System
• 8. Developing a Vibrant, Sustainable Regional Food System: The Case of Northeast Iowa
• 9. Fish Bowl Discussion: A Walk Across the Food System
• 10. Food Preparation Demonstration: Iowa Local Foods Show
• 11. Building Local Food Networks in Iowa: Progress and Potential

People on the Land

• 12. Maintaining the Land's Capacity for Self-Renewal
• 13. Opportunities for Beginning As Well As Begin-Again Farmers
• 14. Fish Bowl Discussion: Diversification on the Farm, in Rural Communities
• 15. No Child Left Inside: Helping the Next Generation Discover a Sense of Place
• 16. Policies to Help Farmers Move toward Ecologically Sound, Profitable Farming