Workshop for Farmers: Growing Vegetables for Year-Round Markets

This workshop is designed for vegetable farmers who are interested in extending their growing and marketing seasons into the winter months. Find out about the best vegetable varieties, get crop planning and logistical advice from an experienced grower, and hear from other farmers about their own adventures with winter greenhouse growing, root cellars, and winter sales.

Growing Vegetables for Year-Round Markets
A Winter Workshop for Farmers sponsored by Seacoast Eat Local

Tuesday February 10th
3:30 – 6:30pm
Brentwood Community Center
190 Route 125, Brentwood, NH

Vegetable Varieties for Season Extension and Winter Storage
Christina Howard, Commercial Sales Rep, Johnny’s Seeds

Farm Tool Demonstration – hand tools, seeders, and other essentials
Adam Lemieux, Tools and Accessories Product Manager, Johnny’s Seeds

Crop Planning and Logistics for Late Season and Winter Farming and Marketing
Ryan Voiland, Red Fire Farm
Ryan Voiland is owner and manager of Red Fire Farm in Granby, Massachusetts, where he grows 40 acres of produce for many different markets including farmers' markets, two farm stands, local wholesale accounts and a 900-member CSA. Red Fire Farm grows a huge variety of crops using season extension practices in order to provide their shareholders with the largest variety of produce for the longest possible season. Ryan is seriously pursuing winter marketing by offering late-season CSA shares through mid-December, selling at a February winter farmers' market, and wholesaling greens and root vegetables right through Jan, Feb. and March. He is also planning a true dead of winter CSA that will begin in the 09/10 winter.

Farmer-to-Farmer Discussion: Winter Farming Successes & Challenges;
Low-Input/Low-Energy Ideas for Greenhouses and Crop Storage

Fee: $15 per person – includes refreshments (catered by Fresh Local Bayside)
Online registration: www.seacoasteatlocal.org/workshop/veg.html

Questions? Contact Kate at kate@seacoasteatlocal.org or 580-5364

Organized by Seacoast Eat Local with support from
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Co-sponsored by Fresh Local

Directions to Brentwood Community Center: Take Rte.101 to Exit 7 (125 toward Epping/Kingston). Take Rte. 125 south for 3.3 miles. The community center will be on your right at 190 Route 125. Parking and entrance are at the back of the building.