EVENT CALENDAR

MAY

Consumers, producers, vendors and educators are invited to this event, which will include breakout sessions, cooking demonstrations and an outdoor organic cookout. Contact: Patricia Rohan at theorganiclight@yahoo.com to learn more.
Time: 11am - 6pm
Location: Career Education Building, Iowa Central Community College

The Living Green Expo is a free, family-friendly event that inspires people to lead healthier and more sustainable lives. The event includes more than 250 exhibits, demonstrations and seminars. Plus kids activities and great local foods...more.

Sweet Ridge Farm works with permaculture and bio-intensive growing techniques to produce vegetables on five acres for wholesale and direct-to-consumer markets. This workshop is designed to help participants learn how one family makes a portion of their livelihood on five acres. Covered during the field day will be: What vegetable crops are profitable to grow on a small scale; Bio-intensive and permaculture techniques; Wholesale versus direct-to-consumer sales; and the role of livestock. Please pre-register before April 25 by calling Parker Forsell at 507-523-3366.
Cost: FREE, sponsored by Organic Valley
Location: Sweet Ridge Farm, W692 HWY 33, Rockland, WI 54653
Time: 1-4pm

Attend a pasture walk with topics on dairy grazing, new start up Grazer 2 to 3 yr, and laying out paddocks on 40 acres of newly seeded pasture. For more information about this and other pasture walks, download an event spreadsheet or contact Jean Stramel at 608-647-8874 ext. 110 or Adam Hady at 608-647-6148.
Time:10:30am
Location: 16551 Merry Hill Rd, Viola, WI

High Tunnel Building Workshop

If you're a fruit or vegetable grower interested in extending your growing season, this workshop is a must! Spend two days learning hands-on how to construct a high tunnel. Adam Montri will join us from Michigan State University to lead the workshop. Montri and his wife Dru and daughter Lydia own and operate Ten Hens Farm, a year-round farm, in Bath, Michigan. Download a flyer to learn more. Download a registration form. Registration deadline extended to April 26th. For more information contact Susan Frame at sframe@cvtc.edu.
Cost: $75, includes morning snacks, lunch, and afternoon snacks. Space is limited; first come, first served.
Time: 10am - 6pm
Location: Chippewa Valley Technical College, Main Campus 620 W Clairemont Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54701

Are you interested in learning about low-input methods of growing produce earlier in the spring and later in the fall? Season Extension Day at the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center (SWROC) near Lamberton will highlight a number of topics relating to earlier and later vegetable and fruit production techniques. Please pre-register by mailing the completed registration form and $15 fee to the SWROC by Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
Time: 9:00am-2:30pm
Cost: $15.00
Location: SWROC, 23669 130th St., Lamberton, MN 56152

Attend a pasture walk and facilitated discussion on custom raising dairy calves, evaluating inter-seeded Kura Clover and grasses planted in 2009. For more information about this and other pasture walks, download an event spreadsheet or contact Dennis Rooney at 608-326-7179 Ext. 113 or Vance Haugen at 608-326-0223.
Time:10:30am
Location: 51173 Old Gays Mills Rd, Gays Mills, WI

Join us for an introduction to the comprehensive ecological methods behind the Biodynamic farming movement inspired by Rudolf Steiner. We'll explore the farm, learning how soils, plants, animals, and people together form a dynamic living organism. Hands-on activities will include preparation-making, applications to compost and fields, plant observations, and learning how to use planetary calendars. Angelic Organics' own Farmer John will discuss the inspiration, evolution, and vision of this farm, as well as his experiences visiting Biodynamic farms around the world. Please bring your own lunch...learn more or register.
Cost: $80
Time: 9am-5pm
Location: Angelic Organics Learning Center, 1547 Rockton Rd. Caledonia, IL 61011