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  • From: "Ted Carey" <tcarey AT oznet.ksu.edu>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Great Plains Vegetable Conference announcement
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:50:19 -0600


THE GREAT PLAINS VEGETABLE CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW
Ramada Inn, St. Joseph, Missouri
January 10 and 11, 2003

The Great Plains Vegetable Conference serves an audience of vegetable
growers and market gardeners. Extension specialists, growers and
industry representatives provide up to date information on major
market gardening themes in 4 concurrent sessions during this 2-day
conference. Specific sessions will be held on tomatoes, asparagus,
pumpkin weed control, sweet corn, flowers, marketing, beginning
farmer, varieties, high tunnels, and much more. The Trade Show will
feature 35 to 40 vendors. A grower round table discussion will be
held Friday night.

This year's conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop on high
tunnels.

Special guest speakers and their topics this year include:

· Eliot Coleman, Four Season Farm, Maine - Successful organic market
gardening; appropriate tools for the gardener;
· Vicki Stamback, Stillwater, Oklahoma - Specialty cut flowers,
successful and profitable basics; know what you're growing and why;
marketing local products;
· Steve Groff, Cedar Meadow Farm, Pennsylvania - No-till tomatoes,
sweet corn, and especially pumpkins; use of cover crops;
· Carl Cantaluppi, North Carolina State Univ. - Forcing asparagus for
the early market; starting a wholesale produce auction; caging
tomatoes;
· Pat & Jan Garrity, Garritys' Gardens, South Dakota - Entertainment
farming in a rural setting;
· Richard Bonanno, Bonanno Farms, Massachusetts - Weed management;
bedding plants; farming 40 miles from the heart of Boston;
· Ray & Michelle Christenson, Iowa - Profitable green bean production
(mechanical harvesting to retail);
· Bill Shoemaker, University of Illinois Extension Specialist -
Pumpkin weed control; sweetcorn fertilizer;
· John Biernbaum, Michigan State University - Principles and
Practices of Organic Farming;
· Several growers on an 'adding value' panel.

Full program and registration details available at the end of
November.
For more information, contact
Christy Dipman, Kansas State University
Tel: 785-532-6173
E-mail: cdipman AT oznet.ksu.edu




  • Great Plains Vegetable Conference announcement, Ted Carey, 11/11/2002

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