Indiana Black Loam Bloomington

SEATING IS LIMITED! RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY, YOU DONT WANT TO MISS THIS! 

* The evening of the 24th will be a Featured Documentary Viewing.   The 25th conference will be from 9am - 4pm

March 24th - 6pm - 8pm  Documentary viewing “ Rhythms of the Land” - A love STory of Land & Family.

March 25th

Held in 3 rooms:      Conference Room    |   Classroom   |    Fellowship Hall

8:30 AM Registration check in table open

9:15 AM Welcome - Conference Room

9:30 AM -10:30 AM

Business Panel - Conference Room

Sessions include 30 minutes of Panel or Presentation and 30 minutes of networking

● Farm Credit - Farm business and finance

● Indiana Grown - Promoting Indiana products for Indiana consumers

● Community Development Financial Institute - Economic Development with financial products in underserved communities

Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard - Classroom

10:30-10:45  BREAK

10:45 AM-11:45 AM

Agency Panel-  Conference Room

● Natural Resource Conservation Service -Conservation and Land Preservation

● Farm Service Agency-Get your farm number and loans for socially disadvantaged farmers

● Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education - Grants

● Indiana Department of Agriculture - Speciality Crop programs/grants

People’s Cooperative Market: Local Food Purchasing Agreement - Classroom

12:00 PM LUNCH SERVED  Fellowship Hall

(keynote speaker on screen)

12:30PM KEYNOTE: Ty Simmons, Human Agricultural Cooperative - Conference Room

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Local Partners Panel-  Conference Room

● Safe Produce Indiana - Safe Handling of Produce & foods

● Urban Soil - Soil testing & site visits

● Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative - Improving your land and its ecosystem

● Purdue University School of Agriculture - Agriculture futures

Dr. Angela Babb- "Nostalgia and the Protection of White Supremacy at a Public Farmers' Market."- Classroom

3:00-3:15 PM BREAK

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Farmer Panel-  Conference Room

● Three Flock Farm

● Sobremesa

● Legacy Taste of the Garden

● Human Agriculture

Jada Bee “Confronting White Supremacy: The Negative Peace of White Liberalism”  - Classroom

4:45 PM

SOBREMESA FARM Farm Tour

4781 North Mount Gilead Road Bloomington, IN 47408 (25 min drive to farm)

The Indiana Black Loam Conference, authored by Legacy Taste of the Garden, will embark on its second year of events focused on the needs of underserved Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) who are farmers, ranchers, producers and socially vulnerable communities.

Legacy Taste of the Garden LLC, People’s Cooperative Market, and their farming collaborators living across the state of Indiana remain committed and dedicated to building relationships, providing support, breaking down barriers to information, and creating access to resources and training for historically underserved Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers, producers, ranchers and growers.