Thank you for the leads for the Illinois workshop. I am using them in the
planning.
I have included the Michigan agenda. The meeting will be held at the
Northwest Michigan Horticulture Station, June 24-26. Again, please e-mail
me with your suggestions for speakers, interactive exercises, ideas, and
resources.
I have a special request. At our workshops for the past two years, we put
up quotes on flip chart paper. They add to the workshop atmosphere, and
participants and individuals refer to them during the sessions. Do you know
of any that would fit the watershed theme, perhaps Carl Sandburg, old Greeks
or Romans, new farmers, etc? Thanks, Heidi Carter
Learning Goals:
1. To understand the structure and function of a watershed
2. To link sustainable agriculture to watershed planning
3. To define stakeholders and groups within a watershed
4. To highlight the opportunities and challenges of watershed planning
5. To combine technical aspects of watersheds with community issues
6. To provide methods and materials for teaching watershed planning
7. To broaden the audience background at the NCSATP workshops
Objectives:
1. To provide opportunities for networking
2. To build and distribute a topical and up-to-date resource notebook
3. To emphasize linkages among universities, agencies, producers, and other
stakeholders
4. To present skills that participants can use on their jobs
5. To demonstrate and practice a variety of learning methods
Guiding Principles:
1. Sustainable agriculture must be viewed in a framework of social,
economic, and environmental factors.
2. Training must be inclusive, both in terms of trainers and audience.
Programming Goal: Fifty percent of each session and tour includes an
interactive or hands-on activity.
Draft Agenda for Michigan
Preworkshop Tour on Tuesday, June 23, 1998: Kellogg Biological Station (KBS)
and Robert Fogg's farm.
Wednesday, June 24
10:00 Welcome from Michigan team and station director, Introduction of
Participants, Moderator reviews goals and objectives
10:30 Structure and Function of Watersheds, suggested presenter—Dr. David Lusch
Noon Lunch catered at the station
1:00 Tour the watershed with the Grand Traverse Bay Initiative as one of
our hosts. We would like to tie in relationships between structure and
function, agriculture, tourism, fisheries, and forestry. Also, how has the
Grand Traverse Bay Initiative managed to keep going? Why is the outreach
program successful in keeping people interested? Would a water quality
monitoring exercise be possible? What other interactive, hands-on
activities would help participants understand the application of principles?
3:00 Break, resume tour
6:00 Supper at an organic winery
Thursday, June 25
8:00 Review goals and evaluation from previous day
8:15 Michigan Watershed Management Short Course, Jane Herbert
8:45 Michigan Groundwater Stewardship Program, Department of Agriculture,
presenter?
10:00 Break
10:30 Kettering Institute, group process of setting goals for watershed
management, discovering values, and building consensus. Which issues are of
importance to the participants, increase in confinement livestock
operations, farmland loss, land use? Does someone have a contact in the
Kettering Institute?
Noon Lunch catered at station and tour of station
2:00 Drive to Envirothon site, have an overview and do one of the modules,
work with students if possible (The Envirothon is a program for 9-12 grade
students to learn more about our natural environment. The Envirothon tests
the student's knowledge on subjects such as soils, aquatics, forestry,
wildlife, rangelands, current environmental issues, and one area of national
interest.)
3:15 Break and drive
3:30 Farm visits to members of Michigan Agricultural Stewardship
Association or Michigan Integrated Food and Farming Systems who are doing
on-farm research related to water quality and watershed issues. What can we
do for an interactive or hands-on activity? Take measurements the farmers
do? Demonstrate ones they might want to do?
6:00 Supper, need suggestion for place
Friday, June 26
8:00 Review goals and evaluation of previous day
8:15 State reports using the zig zag method
9:00 Michigan Land Use Forum, suggested presenter, Dr. Norgaard
10:00 Break
10:15 Audience breaks into smaller groups. Moderators from the groups will
lead a decision case on a community facing a land use decision. The
moderators will be volunteers and will have been trained earlier in the
workshop. Participants will use what they have learned throughout the
workshop. Time for discussion among groups about their approaches to the
same decision case.
11:45 Group Evaluation of workshop
12:10 Lunch catered at station and adjourn
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Heidi Carter E-Mail: csas007@unlvm.unl.edu
Education Coordinator Phone: 402-472-0917
Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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