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Climate and the Future of Agriculture
March 19 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Join us for our virtual town hall on climate and the future of agriculture in the Great Lakes region and beyond. We’ll check out an excerpt of “Weathered: Earth’s Extremes” from PBS Digital Studios and tune in to a panel discussion featuring agriculture experts.
Featured guests include:
–Professor Douglas Jackson-Smith, Kellogg Chair of Agroecosystem Management at Ohio State – College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
-Lea Zeise, coordinator at Ohe∙láku – Among the Cornstalks and assistant director of United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.‘s Office of Environmental Resource Management
-Dr. Erin Silva, professor and state extension specialist in organic and sustainable cropping systems in the UW-Madison Department of Plant Pathology and director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at University of Wisconsin-Madison
-Georgina Gustin, journalist covering agriculture for Inside Climate News specializing in the intersections of farming, food systems and the environment
-Tepfirah Rushdan, director of the City of Detroit Office of Sustainability