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OCTOBER 26, 20179:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

EAST.TENNESSEE.EDU

About our Keynote Speaker

Steve Muntz is the executive director of the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (Southern SAWG). He has extensive experience in sustainable agriculture, community development, and food security, as well as small business and nonprofit management. Prior to coming to Southern SAWG he worked as ranch manager, program manager, and USA country program director for Heifer Project International over a period of eighteen years. He also worked for eleven years with the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture where he consulted with farmers, managed the 4,100-acre Kerr Center ranch, and served as co-program director. He has a degree in agronomy from Texas A&M University, and he owns and manages a small farm in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, where he and his family raise Katahdin hair sheep and range poultry and maintain an organic garden.

Speaker Information

David ButlerAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Plant Sciencesdbutle14@tennessee.edu

Natalie BumgarnerAssistant Professor Department of Plant Sciencesnbumgarn@utk.edu

David LockwoodProfessorDepartment of Plant Scienceslockwood@tennessee.edu

Jenny MooreResearch AssociateDepartment of Plant Sciencescroker@tennessee.edu

Bonnie Ownley ProfessorDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathologybownley@utk.edu

John SkinnerProfessorDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathologyjskinner@tennessee.edu

Margarita VelandiaAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economicsmvelandi@tennessee.edu

Annette WszelakiAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Plant Sciencesannettew@utk.edu

Robin YearyHorticulturistSevier Blumen Cut-Flower Farm, Sevierville, Tennesseesevierblumen.com

Growers Panel

Megan AllenOwnerCare of the Earth Community Farm, Corryton, Tennesseecareoftheearthcommunityfarm.com

Brenna WrightOwnerAbbey Fields, Knoxville, Tennesseeabbey-fields.com

Robin YearyHorticulturistSevier Blumen Cut-Flower Farm, Sevierville, Tennesseesevierblumen.com

Ask the Experts Tent

David CookAgricultural Extension AgentUT/TSU Extension Davidson County, Tennesseedcook5@tennessee.edu

Frank HaleProfessorDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathologyfhale1@tennessee.edu

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