Field School

Selecting Your Seed Companies

Selecting Your Seed Companies

The days are short and the desire to sit on the couch while sipping a cup of hot cocoa is very strong!  Don’t just watch TV, however, with seed catalogs filling up your mailbox, it’s time to start planning your crops for next year!  (Okay, maybe watch a little TV...

Visioning Your Farm Business

Visioning Your Farm Business

The first session of the ‘17/’18 Field School was a great success!  We had to cap enrollment at 40 students, which packed the classroom at the Jonesborough Farm Bureau last Thursday evening! The topic for this first session was “A Vision for Your Farm,” and covered...

What to do if you didn’t get into Field School

What to do if you didn’t get into Field School

Wow!  Did the Field School fill up fast!  Over the last two years, we struggled a bit to meet our recruitment goals, only reaching 35 students a day or two before the first session in November.  This year, word seem to spread like wildfire, and we’re closing our...

Who’s Teaching at Field School?

Who’s Teaching at Field School?

This year, the Field School has over 20 experienced farmers and Ag professionals bringing their expertise to lead our sessions!  This program offers beginning farmers the opportunity to meet with and learn from professional farmers and see many of their operations...

From Soil to $old

From Soil to $old

From Soil to $old: A daylong workshop for commercial produce growers, market gardeners, and agriculture professionals to teach practices for increasing yields, quality, and storage shelf-life for locally grown fruits and vegetables. Saturday, April 29th two regional...

March Field School: Small Livestock & Rotational Grazing

March Field School: Small Livestock & Rotational Grazing

This month’s Field School session was all about small livestock and rotational grazing.  We spent a very chilly morning out at Dodson Farm with self-proclaimed Crazy Chicken Lady Tabitha Dodson.  Tabitha’s not all that crazy though, as she was proclaimed the...