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"
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.
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.