North of 60 Conference
November 8th, 2025
Join us at Decora’s Green Gathering Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon.
This year's theme "Getting to the Root of It"
Rooted in this year’s theme, the agricultural conference brings together a diverse group of speakers focused on the roots of agriculture: land, practices, and principles. Key topics include cover cropping, rotational grazing, biostimulants, and resilient agricultural operations. The event features insights from the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association and a panel of Yukoners who participated in the 2025 Circumpolar Agricultural Conference.
Adding a youth perspective, we will also hear speeches from the Spirit Riders 4-H Club.
Check out the speaker highlights for this event below.
Topic: Cover Cropping
Caley Gasch is a research soil scientist specializing in soil ecology and high-latitude agriculture. Her research focuses on soil biological communities, plant-soil interactions, how soils respond to environmental change, and how we can build and maintain healthy soils.
Caley has conducted research in rangelands, forests, and cropping systems, and her research group is currently learning more about the ecology of agricultural soils in Alaska and evaluating management practices that simultaneously protect the soil and support food production.
The research team uses trials, surveys, and experiments in the field, greenhouse, and lab, and they are based at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, AK, within the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Topic: Biostimulants
Regenerative Organic Agronomist, PhD, PAg
Dr. Av Singh has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and extension articles and has been an invited speaker to over 600 workshops, conferences, symposia as well as guest-lecturing at over 30 universities in Canada, the US, the UK, and India. Av has had the privilege of visiting over 2500 farms across five continents which has shaped his extension of holistic, system-based design solutions. Emphasizing a union of traditional knowledge with science, Av works with growers to cultivate an appreciation of plant:soil interrelationships.
Lastly, Av is a long-time member of the Canadian Organic Growers and the National Farmers’ Union, as well as the former Vice-President of Régénération Canada. Av is also a faculty member at Earth University (www.navdanya.org) in India where he delivers courses on agroecology and organic farming and has recently completed delivering a course on cannabis cultivation at the Nova Scotia Community College.
Topic: Rotational Grazing
Executive Director, Small-Scale Meat Producers Association, BC
Julia has been raising livestock for 14 years and lives entirely off-grid in Nlaka’pamux Territory near Merritt, BC. She is a founding member and past president of the Small-Scale Meat Producers Association, where she now serves as Executive Director, working to strengthen and expand opportunities for small-scale meat producers across British Columbia. Julia also serves on the boards of Farmers for Climate Solutions and the BC Farm Writers Association. She is a former Vice-President of the National Farmers Union and remains active on its livestock committee.
As a grazing mentor with the Canadian Forage and Grasslands Association and Farmers for Climate Solutions Mentorship Programs, she is passionate about supporting farmers and ranchers in adopting beneficial management practices such as rotational grazing. Julia’s commitment to policy and regulatory work stems from her drive to enhance the stability and growth of the small-scale meat sector and its vital role in regional food security.
Topic: Sustainable Roots of your Ag Operation
Managing Partner with Tatonga Inc, B.SC P.AG CHSC CRSP
Dan Trottier specializes in providing industry with sustainable risk management strategies for their operations. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Degree from the University of Saskatchewan and is currently a Professional Agrologist with the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists (SIA). Dan is also a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and Certified Health and Safety Consultant. In recent years Dan has been actively involved with numerous agricultural safety initiatives including the Alberta FarmSafe program, AgSafe Alberta Society, and Board positions with the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association and Young Farm Workers. Dan hopes to improve sustainable safety at the farm gate while assisting the agriculture industry to adopt risk management strategies that make sense.
Registration
Tickets are $20 and include a light lunch and snacks; Yukon attendees traveling 150 km or more from Whitehorse may be eligible for a travel subsidy.
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