At Ranch Management Consultants' week long Ranching for Profit School, you will learn... Increase your Profit! Find simple strategies to reduce your workload and increase profit. Identify and take full advantage of your ranch’s “profit drivers.” Create a plan to improve the financial health of your ranch. Improve your Management Get everyone on the same […]
Legal Food Hub Winter Webinar Series Tuesday, February 5, 12:00 PM EST: Words Matter: Protecting Your Trademarks and Copyrights. Mary Rose Scozzafava, CLF Senior Fellow, former Partner, WilmerHale. Register here.
New Entry Sustainable Farming Project is hosting a mentor training workshop in collaboration with Stone Barns, MOFGA, and Quivira Coalition through our National Ag Apprenticeship Learning Network. If you are mentoring beginning farmers, or hosting apprentices, interns, or other new-to-farming learners and trying to balance education and the work that needs to be done on […]
Location: MA Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow St., Holyoke This hands-on workshop will help identify your farm’s unique story, and explain the steps towards shaping it into a unique brand that will be the foundation of all your marketing efforts. We’ll talk about what makes a strong brand, the essential elements of branding, […]
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) is offering 3 sessions of this workshop across the state for farmers to better understand what is involved in succession planning. Experts from Land for Good and MDAR will provide tools and resources - including the state's Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) Program - to help you identify the next owner of […]
Ancient grains are nutrient-rich and delicious! Join pastry chef Rachel Portnoy as she demystifies using the ancient grain einkorn in all types of baking both savory and sweet. Einkorn is one of the oldest and lesser known ancient grains, a relative of modern wheat with a more easily digested gluten. "Gluten-safe" einkorn can replace wheat […]
Monday, February 11, 2019 8:30 am to 1 pm (Snow Date: February 13, 2019) Improving existing pastures and establishing new pasture Topics: Pasture plants, soil, existing pasture care, reseeding new pasture Nutrition's Role in Sustainable Livestock Production Practices 2019 A new workshop series on pasture management and infrastructure and the nutritional needs of livestock raised […]
Description: Learn to make better disease management decisions by understanding how different types of pathogens behave and the conditions that favor disease. We will review new diseases like spinach downy mildew, dig deeper into perennial diseases like Alternaria in brassicas, and cover other major disease outbreaks from 2018. We will take a tour of UMass […]