Author Michael Phillips to Present Keynote at KRC conference on August 6

We are pleased to welcome Michael Phillips, author and farmer at Heartsong Farm in New Hampshire, as a keynote presenter at our “Building Healthy Communities from the Group Up” conference on Friday, August 6.

Phillips will be talking about how mycorrhizal fungi help build healthy soils, and how this impacts the foods we grow and eat.

Register today to reserve your spot for this fun and inspiring talk!

Phillips is a farmer, writer, carpenter, orchard consultant, and speaker who lives with his wife, Nancy, and daughter, Grace, on Heartsong Farm in northern New Hampshire, where they grow apples and a variety of medicinal herbs. Michael is the author of Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility (Chelsea Green, 2017), and will speak about mycorrhizal fungi and how it impacts the health of our soils and the people who grow food in them. He is also the author of The Apple Grower (2005) and The Holistic Orchard (2011) and teamed up with Nancy to write The Herbalist’s Way (2005). His Lost Nation Orchard is part of the Holistic Orchard Network, and Michael also leads the community orchard movement at www.GrowOrganicApples.com.