Events

Market Access & Food Safety: Farm to School Trainers: Indu Upadhyaya is the Food Safety Extension Educator with UConn Extension.  She completed her PhD from UConn in Animal Science with a focus on Food safety and Microbiology. Before coming back to UConn as faculty, she worked in collaboration with the USDA Agricultural Research Service Poultry Production…

Farmland Access Training Objective: Farmland access is often cited as a major barrier to new and beginning farmers, and the multitude of components that make up farmland access can cause farmers to stop in their tracks. This session will break down several of these components in an attempt to make searching for farmland more exciting…

Farmland Access Training Objective: Farmland access is often cited as a major barrier to new and beginning farmers, and the multitude of components that make up farmland access can cause farmers to stop in their tracks. This session will break down several of these components in an attempt to make searching for farmland more exciting…

Outdoor hands-on workshop to teach you the basics of tapping your very own maple trees and making delicious maple syrup! Walk the Massaro Nature trail and learn about each step in creating maple syrup, including tapping a maple tree and boiling down the sap. Each participant will receive a tapping kit to take home, with…

Outdoor hands-on workshop to teach you the basics of tapping your very own maple trees and making delicious maple syrup! Walk the Massaro Nature trail and learn about each step in creating maple syrup, including tapping a maple tree and boiling down the sap. Each participant will receive a tapping kit to take home, with…