Seed Starting

Its time to begin thinking about the growing season and what better way to begin than with seeds. Join Nathan Lake in this workshop to learn the basics of starting seeds. We will cover strategies for having success starting vegetable seeds with common materials you can find at home or with materials used on farms. Bring any seeds you hope to grow this year or questions you have on how to start seeds.

Fruit Tree Pruning

Join us for the Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop where you will learn the basics of fruit tree and shrub pruning with Jacob Holzberg-Pill. Proper pruning of fruit trees helps to ensure that your fruit trees stay healthy and produce the highest quality fruit. Whether you're taking care of young trees, wrangling in that grandmother apple tree in your backyard, or cleaning up berry bushes, this class will teach and demonstrate tools and techniques to meet the goals of the trees, shrubs and the people in your orchard.

Taste the Valley

The ACORN Food Hub invites you to celebrate and discover local food produced in Vermont's Champlain Valley. Join us at the Kirk Alumni Center on the campus of Middlebury College from 9:30am-12:00pm on Thursday, April 6.

This food fair brings together local food producers and buyers interested in local products. Enjoy light local fare, connect with the local food community, sample delicious products from Vermont's Champlain Valley, and learn about ACORN's Food Hub.

Registration is required.

Small Farm Action Day: Youth, Land Access, & Housing

Each year, Rural Vermont and NOFA-VT invite our farmer members and ally organizations to learn and exchange about the legislative process, advocacy and policy during the Spring legislative session. This event series offers farmers and the agrarian community at large - homesteaders, gardeners, (urban) farmers, medicine makers, and food activists alike  - opportunities to speak with lawmakers, voice their real-life issues and to learn more about the legislative process.

Commercial Bumble Bees in High Tunnels

Join UVM Extension pollinator support specialist Laura Johnson, Koppert’s Inside Sales Representative Anne-Marie Coleman, and Christa Alexander from Jericho Settlers Farm to discuss bumble bee use in high tunnels for crop pollination, including colony biology, optimizing pollinator use from single/multi boxes. Part of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association and UVM Extension Spring 2023 Webinar series.