Join UVM Extension Agricultural Engineer Chris Callahan and UVM Extension Vegetable Nutrient Management Specialist, and high tunnel grower, Becky Maden to discuss high tunnel ventilation, including structural orientation, structural design, passive ventilation, mechanical ventilation, best practices for disease management, and NRCS funding available to support implementation. Part of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association and UVM Extension Spring 2023 Webinar series.

Join UVM entomologist Cheryl Sullivan and UNH entomologist Anna Wallingford to learn about high tunnel pests and how to manage for them. They’ll discuss aphids, cutworms, and other foes of your crops. Bring your questions! Part of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association and UVM Extension Spring 2023 Webinar series.

Enjoy pancake breakfasts, sugar-on-snow, horse-drawn wagon rides, sugarhouse tours, maple syrup and maple product samples and so much more! Have you ever tried maple beer, maple hard cider, or smoked wings with maple bbq sauce? You'll soon see that maple is a staple for everyone’s table! Please visit our Maple Open House Map to find all our sugar houses and plan your trip! https://vermontmaple.org/mohw

Enjoy pancake breakfasts, sugar-on-snow, horse-drawn wagon rides, sugarhouse tours, maple syrup and maple product samples and so much more! Have you ever tried maple beer, maple hard cider, or smoked wings with maple bbq sauce? You'll soon see that maple is a staple for everyone’s table! Please visit our Maple Open House Map to find all our sugar houses and plan your trip! https://vermontmaple.org/mohw

The 2023 Vermont Flower Show Grand Garden Display theme will be Out of Hibernation! Spring Comes to the 100-Acre Wood, an adaptation of the world and magic of Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne. Mark your calendar and make plans to join us!

The Vermont Flower Show is quite unique among flower shows in the U.S. and we will be ready to usher in the Spring of 2023! Highlights include:

Free Film Screening of “Watson,” Followed by Live Q&A with Captain Paul Watson

• Film Screening: Wednesday February 22nd—Saturday February 25th
Register for the film and Q&A at: https://watsonfilm.eventbrite.com
Location: virtual

As a landowner, when you make land available for farming you help secure a future for farming in your community. Farmers are looking for land—from a small vegetable plot, to livestock or crops. Productive, sustainable uses for all or parts of your property can bring many rewards!

Join the Vermont Sheep and Goat Association for a day long lambing clinic. Master Shepherd, Chet Parsons, will start the morning off with a class to go over the basics:  ewe nutrition, early signs of labor, when to intervene in a difficult labor, dystocia, handy equipment to have on hand, clip, dip, and strip.  After a potluck lunch, the class will move down to the dairy barn where Sam Dixon and Renee Lacoss will be in the middle of lambing 75 ewes.

Join herbalist Katherine Elmer to traverse the folk wisdom and modern scientific understanding of some common wild and cultivated forest fungi. We will taste mushroom chai, share recipes, and discuss the optimal processing and medicinal benefits of tonic varieties of medicinal mushrooms such as shiitake, chaga, reishi and turkey tail.

Come join Rural Vermont and Mary Lake on Saturday, March 18th at Center Farm in Montpelier for an on-farm slaughter and processing workshop. In the first half of this 2-part workshop, participants will learn how to humanely slaughter a lamb and then how to efficiently butcher and process a lamb in the second half of the workshop.