Upcoming Events

Pollination Gardens to Attract Bees
August 30, 2008 from 9am to 12pm – Honey Gardens Apiaries
Todd Hardie and Annie Watson of Honey Gardens Apiaries will discuss how to plant gardens that support bees. Assess your yard and garden to see what vegetables, flowers, "weeds," and trees you alrea...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop

Plant yer own patch! Guidelines for establishing and growing ginseng and other native forest medicinal plants. merican ginseng forest farming workshops
September 6, 2008 at 9am – Pennsylvania (various locations)
Interested in native plants? Enjoy spending time in the woods? Looking for a way to diversify income or help cover annual forestland ownership costs? Whether establishing a hobby “patch,” or fores...
Organized by Eric Burkhart | Type: Educational
Growing Herbs - Making Medicines
September 6, 2008 from 10am to 4pm – Anjali Farm
The day begins with a farm tour and weed walk with Lini Mazumdar, owner of Lotus Moon Medicinals. Get your hands dirty digging roots and wildcrafting herbs. After lunch, you will learn different me...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop

Commercial Organic Dairy Grazing and Animal Health Management
September 10, 2008 from 10am to 1pm – Taconic End Farm
Pasture walk and lunchtime discussion with Annie Claghorn of Taconic End Farm and Sarah Flack, NOFA-VT Farm Advisor, on health care treatments and prevention for an organic dairy herd including hom...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop
Cover Crop Trials for Soil Improvements
September 10, 2008 from 5pm to 7pm – Brattleboro Extension Office
The Brattleboro UVM Extension office fields are home to a 3/4 acre demonstration of 20 different cover crop plots, which have been rotated with different species over the past 4 years. Come see how...
Organized by NOFA-VT and VT Berry & Vegetable Growers Assoc | Type: Workshop

Organic Dairy Grazing for Commercial Farmers
September 11, 2008 from 10am to 12pm – Maple Lane Farm
Pasture walk led by Paul Stecker of Maple Lane Farm and Willie Gibson, NOFA-VT Farm Advisor, with discussion on organic livestock management, healthcare, fly control, record keeping, grazing, forag...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: workshop

Hands On Stonewall Building
September 13, 2008 from 9am to 5pm – Holy Goat Farm
Brian Vaughan of Vaughan Landscaping will teach a hands-on workshop building a natural fieldstone wall. You will learn how to prepare the base, the drainage, and the backfill for a stone wall, as w...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop

Store the Harvest
September 14, 2008 from 1pm to 4:30pm – Meadowland Farm
This hands-on workshop, led by Susan Johnson of Meadowland Farm, will walk participants through canning tomatoes and freezing vegetables. We will discuss how to choose vegetables that store, can, a...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop

Seed Saving Basics
September 17, 2008 from 3pm to 5pm – High Mowing Seeds Trial Gardens
Tom Stearns and Katie Traube of High Mowing Seeds will discuss the basic principles and techniques of seed saving. The event takes place in the HMS Trial Gardens and will lend an opportunity to tou...
Organized by NOFA-VT | Type: Workshop

Common Ground Fair
September 19, 2008 at 9am to September 21, 2008 at 6pm – Common Ground Fair Grounds, Unity, ME
MOFGA celebrates its 32nd Common Ground Country Fair on September 19, 20 & 21, 2008, in Unity, Maine. The Fair allows fairgoers to make connections with a rapidly expanding base of organic farm...
Organized by Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) | Type: organic fair