February 2011  Guest Speakers, Biocultural Diversity and the Marketplace: Variance Harvesting/Processing and Trades. How Food Narratives Drive Sustainability   at The Center for Environmental Studies.  Log lunch series. Williams College, Williamstown, MA

October 2010 Biocultural Diversity and the Marketplace: Variance Harvesting/Processing and Trades. How Food Narratives Drive Sustainability.   Presentation for "Marketing for Community Entrepreneurs", Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington.

June 2010 Workshop at Co-Op Power's Energy Summit, Finca Nuestra Raices, Holyoke MA. Biocultural Diversity & Carbon Farming:  Building an Ecosystem Services Marketplace For Our Foods.

June 2010 Paper presented at the Annual Joint Meeting for the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society(AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.  Variance Harvesting/Processing &Ecosystem Services: How Cultural Narratives Drive Facts and Sustainable Ecosystems Hang in the Balance.

January 2010 Launched theTown of Heath's first Sustainability Coffee House, a monthly community forum exploring sustainability themes and project development. First presentation topic Ridge to Reef: The hilltown's remarkable connections to oceans and ocean acidification .

January 2010 Workshop at Northeast Organic Farmer's Association (NOFA) Annual Meeting, Worcester, MA.  Variance Harvesting & the Price-Point Spread: How Customers and their Farmers can Co-generate Sustainable Agriculture.

December 2009 Paper published in the Massachusetts Maple Association Newsletter. Variance Harvesting and the Price-Point-Spread: How Customers and their Farmers can Co-Generate Sustainable Agriculture.

Fall 2009 four week Senior Seminar unit at the Academy at Charlemont on The Politics of Food.  Readings and audio by Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver,  Donald Worster, Vandana Shiva,  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Alanna Mitchell.  Evaluation of "Big Ag" policies of Monsanto, ADM and Cargill.

Summer 2009– Host for MA Maple Association annual Northeast Farm Tour. Presentation on Alternative Energy Production and Sustainable Direct Market Strategies for Small-Scale Farming.

May 2009 – Attended Informing Possibilities for the Future of Food and Agriculture , 2009 Joint annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Penn State University, State College, PA.

February 2009 – Presenters, Agricultural Energy Conservation & Value-Added Benefits Massachusetts Department of Agriculture's Harvest New England Agricultural Marketing Conference , Sturbridge, MA.

2008 Three grants awarded for a 9.3 kw commercial photovoltaic installation which meets 80% of the farm's electricity demands, received from
1) MassachusettsTechnology Collaborative,  2) United States Department of Agriculture & Massachusetts Farm Energy Program;  3) Massachusetts Agricultural Environmental Enhancement Program.

Fall 2008 Four week audio/visual Senior Seminar unit at The Academy at Charlemont on The Politics of Food . Works by Pollan, Raj Patel, Paul Roberts, Vandana Shiva, Alice Waters. Films included “King Corn,” “Deconstructing Supper,”David Suzuki, “Cuba: The Accidental Revolution,” and “GoodFood.”

March 2008, March 2006 Public Presentation at Historic Deerfield, MA: M aple Harvesting Science and History.

2007 Only Light Amber maple syrup awarded Gold Star, noting “exceptional Merit” international review by Sante, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals.  Medium Amber & Black Amber syrups received special “recommended” commendation.

2007 Exhibitor, Northeast Organic Farmers' Association Summer Conference.

Fall 2007 Four week Senior Seminar unit at the Academy at Charlemont on Agriculture & Sustainability.  Included readings and references from the following: Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Jared Diamond, Richard Wilk, Eric Schlosser, David Montgomery, Sidney Mintz, Michael Shuman, Bill McKibben, Mark Kurlansky.

2005 Host farm of Northeast Maple Farm Tour for the MA Maple Association.

2004-2005 MapleTree Growth Project with Ted Watt of Hancock Nature Ctr. &Heath Elementary

1998-2010 Annual field trips by local elementary and high schools to study maple harvesting and sustainable agriculture, and ecology. The farm entertains frequent customer visits as part of agri-tourism allowing us to work with the public in more detail regarding their understanding of, and investments in, family-scale farming and sustainable agriculture.