Calendar of Events

January 21-24, 2009: Southern SAWG's Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The conference will offer practical tools and solutions for sustaining family farms. It will offer sustainable production and direct marketing information for horticultural and livestock producers, enterprise management lessons, farm policy education, community food systems development trainings and the opportunity to learn from peers across the region. Stay tuned to the Southern SAWG website for details to be released in October 2008.

Feb. 17, 2009: High Tunnel Workshop at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) in Goldsboro, NC.

Agenda:

9:00- 9:15 am    
Welcome - Mark Seitz (Service Building, CEFS)

9:15-9:35 am
Selecting a protective structure - Dr. Mary Peet and Steve Moore

9:35-9:55 am    
Microclimate modification - Cary Rivard and Steve Moore

9:55-10:45 am   
Marketing options and crop selection - Mary Peet, Mark Seitz, Steve Moore; this will be a general introduction as well as highlight the grafted and ungrafted tomato, strawberry, greens and other work done at CEFS in high tunnels

10:45-11:15 am 
 Crop budgets, existing high tunnel budgets and how to develop your own - Gary Bullen

11:15 am-12:00 pm    
Fertility:  Nitrogen availability - Suzanne O'Connell, fertigation delivery systems - Harlow
            
2:00-1:00 pm    
Lunch

1:00-1:30 pm   
Insect management - Harlow and Dr. David Orr

1:30-2:00 pm   
Disease management - Cary Rivard

2:00-2:15 pm    
Travel in private vehicles to the Small Farm Unit (approx. 1 mile)

2:15-3:15 pm    
General tour of CEFS high tunnels - Steve Moore, Mary Peet, Cary Rivard, and Suzanne O’Connell

3:15-4:30 pm    
Actual layout of a high tunnel and on site review of existing high tunnel construction details - Steve Moore

For more information, contact Steve Moore at 919-218-4642 or Dr. Mary Peet.

February 27-March 1, 2009: Real Food, Real Medicine Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. Sponsored by UNC FLO Foods and the NC Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Visit the conference website for more information.

March 2-3, 2009: North Carolina Local Food Systems Summit in Raleigh, NC. Hosted by North Carolina State University and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems. Details will be released late in 2008. Contact Nancy Creamer at for more information.

April 25-26, 2009: Piedmont Farm Tour sponsored by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. Visit their website for more information or call 919-542-2402.

This page last updated January 15, 2009.

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