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UMass Twilight Meeting – Cover Crop Strategies for Vegetable Farms

Appleton Farm 219 County Rd, Ipswich, MA

Join UMass Extension for this in-person twilight meeting all about making the best use of cover crops for weed control, soil health and fertility, and attracting beneficial insects. Appleton's farm manager, Andrew Lawson, will discuss the farm's current cover cropping practices and demonstrate their high-speed, shallow tillage disc cultivator. UMaine Extension Sustainable Ag Professional, Jason Lilley, will talk […]

UMass Extension Twilight Meeting: In-Field UV Light Use

Ward's Berry Farm 614 South Main St, Sharon, MA, United States

Join UMass Extension and Ward's Berry Farm for a free Twilight meeting on disease reduction through the use of UV light. UV light has been used with several crops including strawberry, squash, and beet to reduce diseases like powdery and downy mildew. In this study funded by the Northeast SARE Novel Approaches for Sustainable Ag, […]

Farm Tour: ReVision Urban Farm

ReVision Urban Farm 42 Fabyan St, Boston, MA

SBN is organizing two tours of urban farms in and around Boston as part of our Eat Local Month campaign. This tour is designed to be an experience of urban farming and its links to our growing business of food entrepreneurism in the Boston area. The tour will specifically emphasize urban farms very important position […]

Spotted Lanternfly Trapping Update

Online MA, United States

Join UMass Extension for an update regarding the invasive spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula; SLF) and trapping research and monitoring from: Dr. Joseph Elkinton and Dr. Jeremy Andersen, Department of Environmental Conservation, Dr. Miriam Cooperband, Forest Pest Methods Laboratory USDA-APHIS-PPQ-CPHST, Tawny Simisky, UMass Extension’s Landscape, Nursery and Urban Forestry Program, and Dr. Jaime Pinero, UMass Extension’s […]

Fencing Workshop and Pasture Walk

Stone Hill Farm 265 Gendron Rd, Plainfield, CT, United States

The Livestock Institute of Southern New England (TLI) & the New England Grazing Network are hosting a hands-on Fencing Workshop & Pasture Walk Saturday Sept. 11th starting at 9am. This event is in Plainfield CT and is $10 for TLI members ($20 nonmembers). Topics will range from fencing types and voltages relative to animal, to […]

Can Direct-Market Vegetable Farmers Make a Middle Class Income?

Online MA, United States

Vegetable farms that sell their produce through farmers markets, CSA programs, on-farm stores, and other direct-market channels are the foundation of local food movements everywhere. Yet there is surprisingly little information available to help answer a basic question: Can farmers make a middle-class income selling vegetables through direct-market outlets? Pasa Sustainable Agriculture launched an ongoing study […]

NEVBGA Six Hundred Second Meeting

virtual

The New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association and New England Cooperative Extension present an all-day educational session for veg and fruit growers, this Friday January 7th from 9:30-3:15pm. Due to the current surge in COVID-19 cases, we are moving the January 7th meeting online. You can register at the link below. There are three […]

Freed Seed Federation Seed School

Westport Grange 931 Main Rd, Westport, MA, United States

Westport Grange and Freed Seed Federation are excited to offer their first-ever Seed School. The seven-week course is free, and drop-in style, so that as many are able to come as are interested, for as much or as little as they are interested in.  This will be a crash course in the nuts and bolts […]

Funding Your Farm: Strategies to Boost Grant Success

virtual

Join New Entry Sustainable Farming Project for an informative discussion about finding funding and financial capital needed to start, expand, and grow your farm. Hear from four farmers who have successfully navigated state, local, and federal grant and Farm Bill programs: Chris Grant - Grant Family Farm, West Newbury Brittany Overshiner - Upswing Farm, Pepperell […]

Solar Punk Farmhacks Climate Control System Workshop

Revive the Roots 347 Farnum Pike, Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States

Revive the Roots is hosting an on-farm workshop where you will learn to build an Arduino-powered climate control system for greenhouse production. Measure temperature and light levels and control any number of heaters, grow lights, pumps, etc. This workshop will be taught by: Andy from Nuts and Bolts Nursery Bradford from Revive the Roots The address listed […]

$5

Be Prepared for Shearing Season Webinar

virtual

To help fiber farmers prepare for the upcoming shearing season, the Animal Fiber subgroup of the CCE Livestock Program Work Team is hosting a “Preparing for Shearing Day” webinar scheduled for Tuesday February 1st from 7:00 – 8:30 pm on Zoom. There are so many to-do boxes that need to be checked when it comes […]

UMass Amherst Mass Aggie Series

virtual

Join UMass Extension for their annual series of workshops for homeowners and small scale farmers to help participants gain new skills to use in their own gardens and landscapes. Workshops will be hosted via zoom through February and March. All sessions will be recorded and available for paying registrants for two months following each workshop. […]

$35

How To Sell Your Wool to the Wool Pool

virtual

Once your sheep have been shorn, your next step is to market the wool. One option is to sell it raw to a wool pool, but just exactly how do you do that? Join members of the Animal Fiber Subgroup of Cornell’s Livestock Program Work Team for the “Preparing for and Accessing Wool Pools in […]

Soil Management in Response to Climate Change

virtual

Berkshire Grown is hosting another set of online Winter Workshops in 2022. The series runs from late January through March. All workshops are remote, presented on the Zoom platform. Advance registration required.  Zoom links to the workshops will be emailed the day before for each workshop. To register for one or more of the workshops, scroll […]

$10 – $15

UMass Amherst Mass Aggie Series

virtual

Join UMass Extension for their annual series of workshops for homeowners and small scale farmers to help participants gain new skills to use in their own gardens and landscapes. Workshops will be hosted via zoom through February and March. All sessions will be recorded and available for paying registrants for two months following each workshop. […]

$35
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