Beyond Grass and Grain — December 5, 2025

Using Trees to Take Pigs & Poultry to New Heights

December 5, 2025 9am – 4pm

Join other experimental and insightful pig & poultry farmers at Rodale Institute for a full day of learning together about how to integrate pigs, poultry, and trees into our landscapes to create nutrient-dense foods, beautiful and functional farms, and humane ways of raising livestock. 

• Listen as John Arbuckle of Singing Pastures rhapsodizes over alternative feeds to finish pigs.
• Tour Rodale Institutes’s organic pig operation.
• Dig the dirt from panel of producers on tips that have made the biggest differences in their operations. 
• Check out techniques and genetics Trees For Graziers has incorporated into recent plantings.

Let’s learn together how to take monogastric production to new heights using trees for shade, fodder, and crops full of protein, energy, and micronutrients.  Let’s go beyond grass (and grain) into the world of tree crops for non-ruminants. 

Pre-ordered Trees will be available for pick-up at the event.  If you have a fall project in mind, consider reducing your shipping costs and the opportunity to purchase some larger tree stock such as our mulberries, honey locusts, or willow poles.

Identify as a poor chicken or pig farmer? 

Consider a scholarship to attend through Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT).

Program info: https://bit.ly/fact-scholarship

Scholarship app: https://bit.ly/fact-application

Early Bird pricing ends on November 14th. 

Get the flyer here. 

Rodale Institute is at 611 Siegfriedale Road, Kutztown, PA 19530-9320 USA