Saturday, 28 March, 2009

Grow Your Own Groceries!

Post Harvest and Handling for Vegetable Producers

Grow Your Own Groceries!

Milwaukee Urban Gardens

Condensed Session
East Library 1910 E. North Ave
10am-Noon
Cost $10

2–4 pm
Riverside Park (Second of Two part session at the Urban Ecology Center)
1500 E. Park Place
Cost $20

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!

Post Harvest and Handling for Vegetable Producers

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, East Troy, WI
March 28th, 2009 from 9:00am - 5:00pm

Atina Diffley and Jai & Joel Kellum, part of our professional Farmer Faculty, will be presenting this all-day workshop as part of our 2009 Whole Farm Workshop series.

Post Harvest and Handling for Vegetable Producers
9:00am - 5:00pm
Providing the market with high quality products that are professionally handled is the key to this workshop. Techniques in cooling, cleaning, storing and packing vegetables for wholesale markets and CSA, will be shared. Further topics will explore a trip down the audit trail, retail expectations, contracts, and food safety issues. Leave this workshop with the confidence needed to expand your operation, as you scale–up to meet the demands of our growing regional food system.

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


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Pastured Poultry & Multi-Species Grazing

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CSA and Local Food Open House

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