Organic Cover Crop Management: From Fields to High Tunnels

Date, location:
Monday, October 17, 2016. 9am – 3pm
Cabarrus Co Extension Center (AM): 715 Cabarrus Ave W, Concord, NC 28027
Lomax Farm (PM): 3445 Atando Rd, Concord, NC 28025

Registration, includes lunch:

• $15 Carolina Farm Stewardship Association Members (log in to receive your member discount, or call 919.542.2402)
• $20 Non-members
• Registration deadline is this Friday, September 30

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Description:
Come learn how to use cover crops as a nutrient and weed management tool, and how to manage cover crops across a range situations in organic systems. From the field to high tunnels, from winter to summer cover crops, we’ll try to cover it all. The workshop will begin at the extension center in the morning, and we’ll visit CFSA’s Lomax Incubator Farm in the afternoon for a closer look. Other topics will include meeting organic standards when growing cover crops, and farmer perspectives.

This course had been approved for NCDA pesticide credits (2 hrs for D, N, O, X categories): Course code: 345018

Presenters:

• Mark Dempsey, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Farm Services Coordinator
• Gena Moore, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Organic Research Coordinator
• Paige Smart, Southeast Agriseeds
• Carl Pless, NCSU Extension
• Area farmer(s)

Hosted by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association and NC Cooperative Extension. Funding for this workshop provided by a NC Department of Ag & Consumer Services specialty crop block grant.

Thank you to our lunch sponsor, Southeast AgriSeeds!