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Tools for Transitioning to No-Till Vegetable Production
Simple Gifts Farm - 1089 North Pleasant St. North Amherst, MA 01059 1089 North Pleasant St., North Amherst, MAAre you working on a medium to large scale farm and interested in the tools you can use to minimize tillage and transition to no-till? Join NOFA MASS at Simple Gifts Farm to learn from farm managers Jeremy Barker Plotkin and Dave Tepfer. Discuss the practices and tools they have tried, and continue to use, since moving towards no-till production over the past two years. During this event…
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Tools for Transitioning to No-Till Vegetable Production
Simple Gifts Farm - 1089 North Pleasant St. North Amherst, MA 01059 1089 North Pleasant St., North Amherst, MAAre you working on a medium to large scale farm and interested in the tools you can use to minimize tillage and transition to no-till? Join NOFA MASS at Simple Gifts Farm to learn from farm managers Jeremy Barker Plotkin and Dave Tepfer. Discuss the practices and tools they have tried, and continue to use, since moving towards no-till production over the past two years. During this event…
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No-Till Field Day at Sub Edge Farm
Sub Edge Farm 199 Town Farm Road, Farmington, United StatesJoin us at Sub Edge Farm for our first IN-PERSON workshop of 2021! Tuesday, May 25th from 3-5 pm (social hour to follow) Walk the fields with Rodger Phillips of Sub Edge Farm as he takes us on a tour, demonstrating the no-till equipment he has been working with over the past 2 years. Meet up with Jim Hyde, state…
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No-Till Field Day at Sub Edge Farm
Sub Edge Farm 199 Town Farm Road, Farmington, United StatesJoin us at Sub Edge Farm for our first IN-PERSON workshop of 2021! Tuesday, May 25th from 3-5 pm (social hour to follow) Walk the fields with Rodger Phillips of Sub Edge Farm as he takes us on a tour, demonstrating the no-till equipment he has been working with over the past 2 years. Meet up with Jim Hyde, state…
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No-till field day at Assawaga Farm
Assawaga Farm 626 Providence Pike, Putnam, CT, United States -

No-till field day at Assawaga Farm
Assawaga Farm 626 Providence Pike, Putnam, CT, United States -
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Winnow Wizard Seed Cleaning Workshop with Bill Braun
The Hickories 136 Lounsbury Road, Ridgefield, CT, United StatesBill Braun is a farmer at Ivory Silo Farm in Westport, MA, growing organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, and seed. He is also the co-founder and executive director of Freed Seed Federation, a farmer-run 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to place-based seed for the people. At this workshop, we will tour the 17 species of native plants…
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Winnow Wizard Seed Cleaning Workshop with Bill Braun
The Hickories 136 Lounsbury Road, Ridgefield, CT, United StatesBill Braun is a farmer at Ivory Silo Farm in Westport, MA, growing organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruit, and seed. He is also the co-founder and executive director of Freed Seed Federation, a farmer-run 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to place-based seed for the people. At this workshop, we will tour the 17 species of native plants…
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Soil Health & Conservation Farm Equipment Day
UConn Extension Center Annex 1066 Saybrook Rd., Haddam, CT, United StatesThe event will include an exhibition of low and no-till farm equipment, methods, and results for all scales of farming. Workshops will cover best methods for no-till seeding, crimping, etc., along with cover crop implementation for soil health improvement. The day will include farmer-to-farmer sharing of best practices, so farmers can exchange information on soil…
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Compost Tea Workshop
The Hickories 136 Lounsbury Road, Ridgefield, CT, United StatesJoin CT NOFA as we explore how to make compost tea for various applications, and what that looks like under the microscope. Compost tea is produced by actively aerating compost in water with added amendments. Beneficial microbes from the compost consume the amendments, multiply by the billions, and in 24 hours, the finished compost tea…
$45
