Dig in with On-Farm Learning and Trainings

Join us every summer for on-farm learning at Marbleseed Organic Field Days. Field Days hosted by regenerative and organic farmers across the Upper Midwest who are using innovative organic farming practices and feeding their communities. From small urban farms and midscale silvopasture operations to larger scale row crops, we aim to offer field days for every type of farm. Come connect with community and get fresh ideas to try on your farm.

Marbleseed's Trainings connect farmers with the tools they need for a thriving farm business, supporting the growth of organic acreage, generating more revenue for small-scale farmers, and mitigating the impacts of climate change with farming practices that value land stewardship and whole ecosystem health.

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Special Instructions for Visiting Farms with Livestock

Biosecurity is important on all farms, clean shoes and clothes are particularly important at field days where livestock are present. Marbleseed asks that all attendees observe the following biosecurity protocols when visiting farms with livestock.

Wear clean or disinfected shoes that have not been worn on other farms with livestock or livestock buildings, or around a dense population of wild birds.
Wear clean clothes that have not been worn around other livestock.
Upon request of the host or staff during the field day, you may be asked to wear disposable plastic boot covers (provided by Marbleseed) over your shoes.

Current Field Days & Trainings

Check back regularly throughout the season as we add field days and trainings!

Honoring Our Elders Training with Lifting Hearts Therapy Garden (Teb Txhawb Siab)

Thursday, May 15 | 5:30 - 7:30 P.M. | Madison, Wis.

The Lifting Hearts Therapy Garden, hosted by Groundswell Conservancy at Westport Farm and in partnership with the Southeast Asian Healing Center, is a program for HMoob elders who are refugees and veterans of the Vietnam War. While living with PTSD, dementia, and depression, they have found healing through gardening. Since agriculture is central to HMoob culture, gardening can often calm the lingering stress of wartime and stress. It also boosts self-worth in being able to contribute food to family.

In response to the challenges of elders, ag service providers, and caretakers trying to balance the delicate transitions of aging, self-identity through growing, and life, Marbleseed is engaging community members to share experiences and have conversations.

This training is to honor our elders’ knowledge, their identities as producers, and to uplift caretakers and ag service providers to build skills, confidence, and gain insights from the stress of this role.

This event will be in both English and the HMoob language. Interpretation for these two languages will be available onsite. For any questions, please contact Nou Thao, nou.thao@marbleseed.org, (888) 906-6737 Ext. 723
Register here.

Indigenous Food and Agriculture Apprenticeship Project Webinar

Thursday, June 6 | 4 – 5:30 P.M. | Online

Join Jen Falck to learn about how tribal food sovereignty work on the Oneida Reservaion. Kahulahele Farmstead’s mission is to demonstrate and teach community members how to operate a small-scale farm including livestock, poultry, produce, alternative energy, Indigenous planting, and bartering. Ukwahkwa Farmstead’s mission to help the community learn about traditional Haudenosaunee agricultural methods of planting, growing, harvesting, seedkeeping, food preparation, storage, and tool making. The farms have formed a partnership and collaborated on several projects for the Oneida community and beyond. In 2024, they received a NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher grant and used the funding to test a model to share an agriculture apprentice. The presenter will share how the project was designed, how it was successful, and the lessons learned.

Zoom link.

Organic Orchard Floor Management Field Day

Wednesday, June 11 | 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. | Mt. Horeb, WI
Join us for an inspiring and educational Field Day at Atoms to Apples! This field day will focus on Organic Orchard Floor Management, exploring innovative and practical ways to reduce weed populations while supporting tree health, soil vitality, and ecological balance.

Host Rami Aburomia of Atoms to Apples and Organic Fruit Growers Association Coordinator Chris McGuire will lead a presentation on management strategies and how weeds work on the orchard floor before touring Atoms to Apples to see the organic orchard floor management in action. Marie Raboin from Dane County Land Conservation will present on cost share programs for orchard floor management. Rami will show results of an organic herbicide trial using OMRI listed herbicides for managing weeds and suckers.

After the Field Day, join us down the road at Brix Cider in downtown Mt Horeb for a social hour to keep talking about organic orcharding! Thanks to Brix Cider for sponsoring this Field Day!

This event is free, but consider making a donation to Marbleseed! We greatly appreciate your support (especially during this time of federal funding upheaval). You dollars go directly to help fund our farmer hosts and allow us to continue to offer these events for free or low-cost to our community.

Register here.