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Summer Workshops Series
Summer Workshops for 2012 are under development. See below for workshops from last summer.
Gardeners & Homesteaders
- Getting Started With Organic Beekeeping
- Systems and Species: A Peak-Oil Homestead Example
- Weed Dating at Stony Loam Farm & NOFAvore Social
- Season Extension and Late Summer Projects in the Home Garden & Celebration with Guest Vermont Secretary of Ag Chuck Ross
- Urban Hen House Hop – Keeping Chickens in Small Places
- Mud City Loop Homestead Hop & NOFAvore Social
- Intro to Sausage Making & NOFAvore Social
Commercial Vegetable, Fruit & Maple
- Recordkeeping and Whole Farm Planning for Farms with Multiple Crops and Employees
- Strawberry Production at Killdeer Farm
- Marketing Basics for New Growers
- Blueberries and Raspberries for Commercial Growers
- Cooling Systems at Jericho Settlers Farm
- Shiitake Mushroom Cultivation Workshop & NOFAvore Social
- Basic Cover Crop Strategies for Soil Health and Seed Production & NOFAvore Social
- Sugarbush Invaders, Detection and Control, Tools and Strategies
- Vegetable and Berry IPM for Commercial Growers
- Genetically Engineered Crops – What Do You Need To Know? Discussion and NOFAvore Social
- Irrigation Systems at Harlow Farm
- Equipment and Tools for Small Scale Vegetable Production
- Potato Production
Commerical Dairy, Livestock & Meat Processing
- Adding Value through Animal Welfare and other 3rd Party Certifications
- Livestock Fencing and Pasture Walk
- Introduction to Pasture Management: Using Ruminants to Improve Pasture
- Pastured Poultry at Applecheek Farm
- On-Farm Poultry Slaughter
- VT Beef Producers’ Summer Social: Capitalizing on the Power of the Vermont Brand
- Raising Quality Pigs in Vermont
- Introduction into Starting a Commercial Goat Dairy
- Exploring New Ideas at the Choiniere Dairy Farm
- Scaling Up: Producing and Processing for the Larger Regional Market
- Processing & Storing Small Grains Field Day
- Using Chickens to Grow Winter Squash and Ending Up with Pigs
Apprentice & Farm Worker Program
