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High Tunnel Tour at Farmer Dave’s
High Tunnel Tour at Farmer Dave’s
Discover the secrets to year-round production and innovative risk management at Farmer Dave’s farm tour, tailored for farmers. Since purchasing his farm in 2006, Dave has developed 2 acres of high tunnel space—1 acre heated, 1 acre unheated—with techniques that boost yields, reduce weather variability, and extend crop availability well into the winter. With a […]
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Food Safety Liability Basics
Food Safety Liability Basics
Attorney Chloe Forkner Johnson, Farm Commons It’s every farmer or rancher’s worst nightmare: Someone claims to have gotten sick from the food they produced. No matter how safe the operation is, the risk is always there. The good news is there are ways to manage and mitigate the impacts of this risk. We’ll discuss the best […]
RI Farm Succession Service Providers Meet & Greet
RI Farm Succession Service Providers Meet & Greet
It takes a team to create a good succession plan! Join us to hear quick pitches from several professional service providers in RI that can help you on your farm succession journey. This is a part of Land & Sea Together's LASA-Funded Farm Succession Winter Intensive, but we are opening up the workshop for a […]
Food Fight: Explore Our Food System and Your Role In it
Food Fight: Explore Our Food System and Your Role In it
Join New Entry staff and farmers at this fun, engaging event in Beverly! Our local partners, Green Beverly and the North Shore Farm and Food Coalition (that New Entry helped launch) is hosting a Community Conversation at The Cabot Theater in downtown Beverly, and it's all about food! Join us for a fun, delicious and […]
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Discovering Resilience: A Legal Workshop for Farmers and Ranchers
Discovering Resilience: A Legal Workshop for Farmers and Ranchers
Farmers and ranchers: Ever wonder if your farm is at risk because of a lurking legal problem? Do you wish you knew where to turn for the answers? Those answers aren’t always easy to come by — especially for the most innovative, direct-to-consumer farmers. Discovering Resilience is a legal workshop designed just for you. You’ll […]
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Farmer Skill Share Circles – Knot Tying
Farmer Skill Share Circles – Knot Tying
Skill Share Circles are peer led social meet-ups that focus on farm adjacent skills that build off of our community’s knowledge. All skill levels are welcome to learn and teach! THESE EVENTS ARE ALL AGES! Please RSVP Location: PVD THINGS, 12 Library Court, Providence, RI Date: March 1st Time: 3:00pm-5:00pm What to expect: A casual space to […]
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Farm Business Plans (with a Focus on Cooperatives)
Farm Business Plans (with a Focus on Cooperatives)
with Ulum Pixan and Matt Feinstein from PPLT/Global Village Farm
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Pasture Adaptation Techniques for a Changing Climate
Pasture Adaptation Techniques for a Changing Climate
Workshops, in person and online, offer the latest information in the field, and opportunities to discuss with others the realities of putting sustainable agriculture into practice. Workshops in 2024-2026 will address economics, pasture resiliency and animal productivity in pasture based systems. Workshops over the last three years addressed nutrient management within a pasture system tying […]
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2025 RI Compost Conference and Trade Show
2025 RI Compost Conference and Trade Show
The annual Rhode Island Compost Conference & Trade Show brings together food waste generators, composters, food recovery organizations, regulators, legislators, and the general public to network, to trade ideas and learn more about compost and the food waste ecosystem.
Integrated Pest Management for High Tunnels
Integrated Pest Management for High Tunnels
A Virtual Workshop for Intermediate & Advanced Farmers Take your pest management skills to the next level! Join Margaret Skinner, an IPM expert with 38 years of experience, for a specialized training designed to help high tunnel growers build proactive, sustainable pest management strategies. As a key member of the University of Vermont Entomology Research Laboratory, Margaret brings expertise from […]
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2025 Grain Growers Conference
2025 Grain Growers Conference
Event Description: Join the University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops and Soil Program and Northern Grain Growers Collaborative (NGGC) for the annual Grain Growers Conference! Dates and Time: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM, with a Networking Social Hour from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Check-in from 8:15 AM to 9:00 […]
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The Seafood Marketplace for North America
Seafood Expo North America and Seafood Processing North America is North America’s largest seafood exposition. Thousands of buyers and suppliers from around the world attend the annual, three-day exposition to meet, network and do business. Attending buyers represent importers, exporters, wholesalers, restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and foodservice companies. Exhibiting suppliers offer the newest […]
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Soil, Plant, and Organic Methods PLUS Agro-Ecology Short Course
Soil, Plant, and Organic Methods PLUS Agro-Ecology Short Course
Sliding-scale options… see below! The 14th annual “Soil Course” is open for registration. This spring course is for farmers, gardeners, and others interested in the world of soil, plant health and function. This course covers foundational and current soil science, crop science, and soil maintenance principles with a focus on organic/regenerative/sustainable farming methodology. In addition […]
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Athletes in Overalls: Injury Risk Management (4-part Zoom series)
Athletes in Overalls: Injury Risk Management (4-part Zoom series)
Expanded discussion of risk avoidance and management of musculoskeletal injuries. Information will include movement self-advocacy and considerations for implementing change for self and within a farm's strategies. All sessions on Thursdays at 3:30 pm PST/6:30 pm EST March 20: Movement Health, Self-Advocacy, and Athletic Performance of Farmers and Industrial Athletes March 27: Food, Fluid, Sleep, and Stress are […]
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No More Normal Round Table
No More Normal Round Table
Join American Farmland Trust’s New England Climate and Agriculture team and Ken Foppema of Foppema’s Farm for a farmer roundtable discussion of farming in a time of climate change, and the strategies that support successful adaptation. This is a free, farmer-focused, peer-to-peer event geared towards all types and scales of farms. Please RSVP to let […]
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Farmer Sewing & Mending
Farmer Sewing & Mending
In partnership with our friends Lu & Chris Yoder, we are excited to be collaborating to bring you a Farmers Sewing Workshop, Sunday, March 23rd from 10am - 4pm in Westport MA. Address: 98 Reed Rd, Westport MA Please Park at the "Westport Council On Aging" parking lot and walk up the street Farmers can […]
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UMass Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training – Southbridge
UMass Produce Safety Alliance Grower Training – Southbridge
Fruit and vegetable growers and others interested in learning about produce safety, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule, Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs), and co-management of natural resources and food safety should attend this course. This course will also cover the Massachusetts Commonwealth Quality Program (CQP), a voluntary 3rd-party audit program. This training […]
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Using the Web Soil Survey for Your Needs
Using the Web Soil Survey for Your Needs
This presentation is for current Web Soil Survey (WSS) users interested in advancing their skills in using the platform to inform resource management. A brief overview of the app will be given, but prior knowledge and familiarity using WSS is assumed. You will learn how to use the program to find out what soils are […]
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Drawing the Line in the New England Milkshed: Regional Zoning for Dairy Industry Preparedness
Drawing the Line in the New England Milkshed: Regional Zoning for Dairy Industry Preparedness
If you are a New England milkshed dairy producer or dairy industry ally, join us on March 27, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. New England dairy producers who attend the entire workshop are eligible for a stipend. University of Vermont (UVM) researchers are engaging the dairy community in thinking through how a protection […]
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Unearthing Herbal Wisdom
Unearthing Herbal Wisdom is an an in-person, community-based opportunity to connect with the natural world and learn how to incorporate culinary and medicinal herbs, wild plants, mushrooms, and tree magic into our daily lives. This 8-session course runs from March through October, and it is focused on building knowledge around working with plants in meaningful […]
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Greenhouse Moving Workshop: Optimizing Space and Time with Moveable High Tunnels
Greenhouse Moving Workshop: Optimizing Space and Time with Moveable High Tunnels
Join seasoned year-round farmers Mike & Kelli Roberts for a hands-on workshop on optimizing moveable high tunnels for year-round growing. The workshop will include discussion on planting dates, varieties, and other season extension tips they've learned from growing over 16 winter seasons with moveable tunnels. Participants will also have the option to assist in moving […]
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Pasture Adaptation Techniques for a Changing Climate: Winter and Bale Grazing
Pasture Adaptation Techniques for a Changing Climate: Winter and Bale Grazing
Workshops, in person and online, offer the latest information in the field, and opportunities to discuss with others the realities of putting sustainable agriculture into practice. Workshops in 2024-2026 will address economics, pasture resiliency and animal productivity in pasture based systems. Workshops over the last three years addressed nutrient management within a pasture system tying […]