Each winter, the Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association (VVBGA) collaborates with University of Vermont Extension to offer a weekly webinars series for commercial growers.

This year, the webinars are from noon to 1 p.m. each Wednesday from Feb. 11 through April 29. They feature farmers and agricultural specialists speaking on the following topics:

  • Feb. 11: Go with the flow: improving high tunnel ventilation
  • Feb. 18: High tunnel innovations: farmer lightening round
  • Feb. 25: What's the buzz about? Promoting pollinator health on vegetable farms
  • March 4: Understanding wholesale distribution options and costs
  • March 11: What's that spot? Organic tunnel management of powdery mildew and other foliar diseases
  • March 18: Produce Safety audits and traceability for wholesale markets
  • March 25: Crimp, rip, or strip: innovative cover cropping for soil health
  • April 1: Introducing the Vermont Herb Growers Initiative 
  • April 8: Organic potato pest and disease management
  • April 15: Tunneling forward: learning from high tunnel tomato enterprise budgets
  • April 22: Soil health bang for your buck
  • April 29: Plastic mulches in vegetable production: sources, alternatives, pros and cons

For more details on each webinar topic and speaker(s), head to this full descriptions page.

The webinars are free to attend, but registration is required to access the Zoom link.

Webinar funding is supported by grants from: the Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP), Vermont Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Program (AgCWIP), Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RSFI), and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE).

The list of last year's winter webinars -- with links to the slides and closed-captioned recordings for each -- are also available. You can listen to the audio portion of past webinars on the VVBGA Spotify channel or Apple podcasts.

UVM Extension also publishes a monthly Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Newsletter. You can see back issues with grower updates from the field, upcoming educational opportunities and more. To receive future newsletters, contact Vern Grubinger at vernon.grubinger@uvm.edu.