Crop Planning: Succession Planting & Diversification Choices (NOFA-VT Summer Workshop Series Event)

Pre-registration required (limit 30)

Successful management of small-scale, diversified farms benefits greatly from intensive planning before the growing season starts. This workshop with Kenneth Mulder, Farm Manager at GMC, will focus on developing a production plan for a diversified vegetable production operation, including estimating demand and yield, utilizing intercropping and rotations for ecological efficiency, and using succession plantings to maintain a steady crop supply. Cerridwen Farm at Green Mountain College is a 22-acre diversified educational farm where students compliment their classroom education with hands-on experience in vegetable production and animal management.

Directions to 1 Brennan Circle, Poultney: Cerridwen Farm is located on the south end of Green Mountain College's campus which is at the west end of Main Street in Poultney. Take Main Street to the main college entrance. Turn left on College Ave. White farm house with a circular drive will be on the right with the barns just behind. The workshop will begin in the basement of Griswold Library, just north of the farm house.

Parking: Participants can park in the farm house driveway. If that is full, visitor parking is available in the college circle with permits available in Pollock Hall on the south side of the circle.