Summer Field School ’22 Class #1: Specialty Produce and Irrigation
Join us at Creative Seeds Farm for a session on Specialty Produce and Irrigation. With local food in high demand, this course will help you determine what type of crops […]
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Creative Seeds Farm 422 W Glade Street, Glade Spring, Virginia, United States
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Summer Field School ’22 Class #2: Season Extension
TNT Farm N Greenhouse 32367 Taos Ln, Meadowview, Virginia, United StatesJoin us at TNT Farm N Greenhouse for a class of Season Extension. Season extension provides early and late harvests, winter harvests, and longer harvest windows. These techniques also offer […]
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Summer Field School ’22 Class #3: Aggregation/Distribution
Appalachian Harvest 280 Boone Trail Road, Duffield, Virginia, United StatesJoin us at Appalachian Harvest for a class on Aggregation and Distribution services and more. Season extension provides early and late harvests, winter harvests, and longer harvest windows. These techniques […]
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Summer Field School Class #4: Integrating Multiple Operations
Kelly Ridge Farms 30558 Old Saltworks Road, Meadowview, Virginia, United StatesIntegrating operations is key to incremental success in farming. Farms aren't about single product lines, but about how you can design your operations to support each other and build your […]
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Summer Field School Class #5: Rotational Grazing and Cattle Work
Valor Valley Farm 4949 Pounding Mill Branch Rd, Pounding Mill, Virginia, United StatesDarrell Wess and family started Valor Valley Farm in 2017 as a cow/calf operation. They have specialties in good land stewardship, quality cattle, and environmental conservation and sell at livestock […]
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Summer Field School Class #6: Beekeeping
Fungirl Farms 19543 Old Jonesboro Rd, Abingdon, Virginia, United StatesDebbie Mott grew up on a ranch in Arizona. Her and her husband had a horse ranch in Coeur d’Alene Idaho and now have a farm in Southwest Virginia.” At The Old Virginia Farm & FunGirl Farms, they are growing hay and mushroom as well as raising bees, horses & German Shepherds. During this class, […]
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Summer Field School Class #7: Forest Farming
Appalachian Cove Forest Farm and Homestead 2857 Cox Chapel Rd, Duffield, Virginia, United StatesJoin us at Appalachian Cove Forest Farm & Homestead to learn about Forest Farming with Ryan Huish. Appalachian Cove farmers have been gardening/farming for several decades at various places. At their current location, they steward a forest farm (growing edible, medicinal, and handicraft plants), practice permaculture, no-till, animal rotation, and alley cropping. They also raise […]
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Summer Field School Class #8: Fruit/Apple Orchards
Kelly Ridge Farms 30558 Old Saltworks Road, Meadowview, Virginia, United StatesVisit Tumbling Creek Cider Company’s expanding orchards to learn about cider apple varieties, propagation, planting, maintenance and how to re-establish the apple industry in our region. We’ll tour the Old Orchard where we are rejuvenating 50 year-old trees and have planted many 3 year-old trees, the New Orchard as a high-density trellised system and the […]
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SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES With JUSTEN DICK
Integrating operations is key to incremental success in farming. Farms aren’t about single product lines, but about how you can design your operations to support each other and build your assets (and soils) for the long haul. Shift away from extractive farming methods and focus on long-term success. At Kelly Ridge, Justen will discuss their […]
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Beekeeping with Steve Payne and Chad Overhold
Begin in the Farm Clubhouse, where Steve and Chad will describe how to start your own apiary and then move to the apiary and open a hive (extra protective suits are available). The hope is to convince participants that this is hard, interesting, lots of fun, and well worth doing. You will learn about how […]
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Apple Orchards with Tom McMullen
Visit Tumbling Creek Cider Company’s expanding orchards to learn about cider apple varieties, propagation, planting, maintenance, and how to re-establish the apple industry in our region. We’ll tour the Old […]
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FOREST FARMING WITH RYAN HUISH
If you are interested in getting back to your Appalachian roots, what better way to do that than Forest Farming? Ryan and his family have been gardening/farming for several decades […]
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