Alternative Greenhouse and High Tunnel Crops
Program, Directions and Registration - by mail or on-line

Friday, December 12, 2008
9:00 AM to 3:30 PM

Sturbridge Host Hotel http://www.sturbridgehosthotel.com/
366 Main St., Sturbridge, MA

Sponsored by: University of Massachusetts Extension Floriculture and Vegetable Programs, University of Connecticut Extension and Northeast SARE

Program

8:30 AM Registration Coffee

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Growing in Greenhouses and High Tunnels
Vern Grubinger, University of Vermont

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Growing Winter Sprouting Broccoli in Unheated High Tunnels for Fresh Market
Becky Grube, University of New Hampshire

10:30 AM- 10:45 AM Break

10:45 AM- 12:15 PM Growing Fresh Cut Herbs and Edible Flowers
Sandie Shores, Herb's Herb & Such, Millville, MN
Sandie is the author of “Growing and Selling Fresh Cut Herbs” and will have autographed books available for sale.

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Growing Greens
Pete Johnson, Pete's Greens, Craftbury, Vermont
Pete's Greens is a four-season organic vegetable farm with an emphasis on growing baby greens, heirloom tomatoes and root crops.

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM Break

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM What we are growing and how we are doing it .

Salad Greens for High Tunnel Production
Dave Zemelsky, Starlight Gardens , Durham , Connecticut
Starlight Gardens is a certified organic farm that grows tomatoes, microgreens, vegetable and herb seedling in greenhouses and high tunnels.

Growing and Marketing Ginger Root
Missy Bahret and Casey Steinberg, Old Friends Farm, Amherst , MA
Old Friends Farm is an 8 acre certified organic farm specializing in cut flower, salad greens and specialty crops. They have been growing ginger for three years.

Financial support for this program is being provided with a grant from Northeast SARE .

For more information contact:
Tina Smith, University of Massachusetts , 413-545-5306, tsmith@umext.umass.edu
Leanne Pundt, University of Connecticut , 860-626-6240, leanne.pundt@uconn.edu
Paul Lopes, University of Massachusetts , 508-295-2212, ext 24, lopes@umext.umass.edu

Attendees needing overnight accommodations should contact: Sturbridge Host Hotel, http://www.sturbridgehosthotel.com/ or call 508-347-7393

Directions:

The Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center is located on Route 20 West. From the North, East and West, take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) to Exit 9, Route 20 West. From the South, take either Interstate 84 or Route 131 to Route 20 West. The hotel is located less than one-quarter mile from the first set of traffic lights.