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| February 10 - 12 Winter Conference, NOFA-VT UVM Davis Center, Burlington Come visit Center staff at the Northeast Organic Farming Association's Winter Conference, one of the largest annual gatherings of Vermont's food and farming community. Featuring keynote speakers Vern Grubinger and Wendy Johnson, over 1500 of your friends and neighbors will be onsite to learn more about gardening, farming, homesteading, and eating locally - with over 70 workshops in the works, an ice cream social, all-day intensives for farmers and growers, and more. Ginger Nickerson will lead workshops on Produce Safety for farmers, Rachel Schattman and Linda Berlin are taking part in a panel discussion on Food Security - plus Center Director Linda Berlin will be presenting the 2011 Vermont Sustainable Agriculture award. Register and find more information here. February 21 Pricing for Profit Webinar Learn how to set the "right" price for your products. We'll explore practical approaches to cost-based pricing, and learn how to integrate market information — what your competitors are charging — and your own profit goals in your pricing decisions. Participants will learn how to use the new, online Vermont Direct Price Reporting tool to get a snapshot of market conditions, and growers will share their approaches to integrating production costs, market information and farm goals into their pricing strategies. Participants in this webinar will be eligible for small-group pricing clinics and farmer-to-farmer mentoring in March through the UVM Extension Vermont Direct Market Price Project. If you have Internet access and can hear sound through your computer, you should be able to participate or watch recordings regardless of the type of computer or operating system you use. A broadband connection to the Internet is helpful but not required. All webinars are recorded and made available for later viewing. You can find our webinar archive on our webinar webpage. Click on the title of the webinar to link to the webinar. If this is the first time you're participating in a webinar using the Blackboard Collaborate/Elluminate platform, please visit the link to your webinar an hour or two earlier so that you can pre-configure your computer for webinar participation. For more information, please contact the UVM Extension New Farmer Project by e-mailing newfarmer@uvm.edu or calling 802-223-2389. If you require accommodations to participate in a webinar, please contact Mary Peabody at least seven days before the webinar you want to participate in, so we may assist you. Call 802-223-2389 or 1-866-860-1382 (toll-free in Vt.) or email mary.peabody@uvm.edu.February 25 Restoring Grazing Lands: Granite State Graziers 6th Annual Grazing Conference Concord NH Holiday Inn on Main Street Featuring sessions with Kathy Voth of Livestock for Landscapes, who developed a method for training cows to eat weeds in as little as 10 hours over 10 days, and with Brett J. Chedzoy of Cornell University Cooperative Extension who will talk about the basic principles involved in silvopasturing and how to implement them on your farm. Also featuring sessions ranging from flood restoration to a panel discussion with meat buyers. For more information, contact Bill Fosher at news@grazenh.com or 603-399-9975, or check http://www.grazenh.com for full information and a downloadable brochure. __________ March 15, March 20 Direct Market Pricing Strategy: Intensive Clinic Webinar The Vermont Direct Market Pricing Project is an initiative of UVM Extension, in partnership with: the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association; the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT); and the Vermont Farmers’ Market Association. The goals of the Direct Market Pricing Project are to help farmers share information about what they charge at direct markets (farmstands, farmers’ markets, etc) for farm products and to provide education about farm pricing strategies. With this information farmers can set prices that are fair to consumers while supporting farm profitability. Through the online Direct Market Price Report, online information and resources, and in-person workshops and clinics, the Project aims to support long-term farm viability. Pre-registration is required at http://www.uvm.edu/farmpricing/sign-2012-pricing-clinics. University of Vermont Extension and U.S. Department of Agriculture, cooperating, offer education and employment to everyone without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or familial status. If you require accommodations to participate in a webinar, please contact Mary Peabody at least seven days before the webinar you want to participate in, so we may assist you. Call 802-223-2389 or 1-866-860-1382 (toll-free in Vt.) or email mary.peabody@uvm.edu. |