Summervale is back! Join the Intervale Center every Thursday from July 6th to August 24th from 5:30-8 pm for live music, local food and drink, activities, raffles, and more.

July 6th

• Music: Paper Castles
• Guest Organizations: Vermont Garden Network, Old Spokes Home, Let’s Grow Kids!, UVM 4H
• Guest Vendors: Lawson’s Finest, Maudite Poutine, Meza
• Featured Sponsor: American Flatbread and Mascoma Bank

This workshop is designed for farmers, farm-based educators, and non-formal educators.

Are you looking to build a farm-based education program, or inspire your existing programming? At this workshop, you’ll fill your toolbox with kid-tested activities as you join a community of peers from around the region. Spend time in hands-on, activity-based learning while you explore Shelburne Farms’ dairy, farmyard, garden, and forest classrooms. 

Management Intensive Grazing for the Diversified Farm

Interested in improving your grazing skills or new to Management Intensive Grazing?

Please join Larson Farm for a pasture walk highlighting the use of automatic gate openers and innovative seeding strategies to improve soil fertility, pasture dry matter intake, and overall farm sustainability. These technologies were implemented as part of a grant with the Dairy Business Innovation Center in collaboration with 5 other farms and the Center for an Agricultural Economy. The pasture walk will take place from 1-3, with a potluck to follow. Bring a dish and dishes to eat on. Please register in advance.

Join UVM Extension for a workshop to develop individualized protocols for the herd health of your small ruminant operation, led by veterinarian Dr. Dayna Locitzer. This workshop will review the importance of creating protocols, where on the farm they are best used, and the best strategies for designing your own protocols.

Join UVM Extension for a hands-on dairy herd health workshop hosted by Cedar Mountain Farm and led by veterinarian Dr. Dayna Locitzer, DVM.

With a mix of time in the classroom, on pasture, and in the barn, we'll discuss the principles of herd health, a cow's daily time budget, physical exam of the cow, demonstration of clinical skills like knot tying and administering injections, and calving and when to intervene.

This workshop is for dairy farmers looking to deepen their clinical skills and understanding of herd health management.