Saturday, 14 March, 2009

Grow Your Own Groceries!

Managing Your Workforce: Employees, Volunteers & Interns

Grow Your Own Groceries!

 Milwaukee Urban Gardens

CORE El Centro (Spanish Bilingual) (First of the Two part session at CORE)
611 W. National Ave Suite 409
10am-Noon

OR

Riverside Park (First of Two part session at the Urban Ecology Center)
1500 E. Park Place
2–4 pm

FOR REGISTRATION OPTIONS: http://www.milwaukeeurbangardens.org/index.html
EASILY ACCESSIBLE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE! 414.431.1585

For all of you that enjoy the taste of homegrown food, Grow Your Own Groceries is a backyard gardening course that teaches urban residents how to design, plant, and care for a productive vegetable garden, plot or any space available. By growing food at home individuals and families save money on groceries, eat healthier, and avoid commercial food safety scares.

The two course series provides a detailed overview of organic gardening practices and prepares participants for the challenges and rewards of starting a home garden. Topics include: planning and crop rotation, healthy soil and composting, insect and disease control, and much more!Together we are growing food for our tables and our health!

Managing Your Workforce: Employees, Volunteers & Interns

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, East Troy, WI
March 13th, 2009 from 9:00am - 12:00pm

Three of our professional Farmer Faculty will be presenting this workshop. We hope you’ll join us and take part in our 2009 Whole Farm Workshop series!

Managing Your Workforce: Employees, Volunteers & Interns
9:00am - 12:00pm
Managing people is another skill set needed in running a well–oiled operation and managing your farming business. This panel of farmers will explore requirements such as payroll, insurance, compensation, housing, day to day structure, contracts, resources, job requirements, and other general managerial duties of having employees, volunteers and interns on the farm.

Please visit our website to register and to see the complete listing of 2009 workshops!


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Starting Out With Nothing…

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Pastured Poultry & Multi-Species Grazing

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CSA and Local Food Open House

Basic Beekeeping

Managing a Meat CSA

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Raising Animals for Fiber

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Getting Organized for Organic Certification

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Milwaukee Urban Gardens

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Building a Brooder for Your Chicks

Setting up Alternative Business Pools

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Milwaukee Urban Gardens Spring Fling!

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Tractor Safety Part I

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Post Harvest and Handling for Vegetable Producers

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