I've got some more local events for the Events Calendar and these are really good!
Hooray! The Mother Earth News Fair that we attended last year is back again in 2014. It looks like they're moving from Lawrence, Kansas to Topeka and that's probably because they were pretty constrained in that park setting last year. If you're local and are interested in attending this year (I highly recommend it!), then you might want to go ahead and pick up your tickets because they're half price right now. The Fair is the last weekend in October and tickets are just $15 per person right now for an entire weekend pass.
Oh, and for those of you who are not local, check out one of the other 3 locations: Puyallup, WA; Asheville, NC; and Seven Springs, PA. Tickets for those locations are half price right now also.
Back to local events....the Kansas City Community Gardens and Growing Growers organizations have also released their 2014 workshop schedule. I've added these to the Events Calendar, and you can cruise the list here:
Kansas City Community Gardens Workshops (www.kccg.org)
All workshops are approximately 90 minutes long.
February
Feb 4 - 6:00pm: Selecting, Planting and Caring for Fruit Trees and Berry Plants
Feb 7 - 12:00pm: Selecting, Planting and Caring for Fruit Trees
Feb 11 - 5:30pm: Growing Early Spring Crops
Feb 14 - 12:00pm: Selecting, Planting and Caring for Berry Plants
Feb 21 - 12:00pm: Growing Early Spring Crops
Feb 22 - 9:00am: Get Growing a Community Garden
Feb 24 - 6:00pm: Growing Early Spring Crops
Feb 28 - 12:00pm: Vegetable Garden Basics
March
March 3 - 6:00pm Selecting, Planting and Caring for Fruit Trees and Berry Plants
March 4 - 6:00pm Raised Bed Gardening
March 7 - 12:00pm Raised Bed Gardening
March 8 - 10:30am Planning and Planting your Schoolyard Garden
March 10 - 6:00pm Vegetable Garden Basics
March 14 - 12:00pm Growing and Cooking with Herbs
March 17 - 6:00pm Vegetable Garden Basics
March 24 - 6:00pm Growing Early Spring Crops
March 28 - 12:00pm Cooking: Spring
March 31 - 6:00pm Vegetable Garden Basics
April
April 1 - 6:00pm Growing Tomatoes Peppers and Sweet Potatoes
April 4 - 12:00pm Planting and Caring for Vine Crops
April 7 - 6:00pm Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Sweet Potatoes
April 8 - 5:30pm Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Sweet Potatoes
April 10 - 6:00pm Get Growing - Water
April 11 - 12:00pm Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Sweet Potatoes
April 14 - 6:00pm Raised Bed Gardening
April 28 - 6:00pm Growing Tomatoes, Peppers and Sweet Potatoes
May
May 2 - 12:00pm Insects in the Garden
May 5 - 6:00pm Cooking: Spring
May 6 - 6:00pm Spring Harvesting and Growing and Cooking with Herbs
May 13 - 5:30pm Growing and Cooking with Herbs
May 16 - 12:00pm Dealing with Animal Pests
June
June 6 - 12:00pm Freezing your Harvest
June 7 - 10:00am Gardening with your Family
June 16 - 6:00pm Insects in the Garden
2014 Growing Growers Workshops
February 24 - 4 to 7 pm
Farm Start-Up, Accessing Land & On-Farm Crop Storage
Location: Kansas City, KS
Cost: $15
March 14 and Saturday, March 15
Good Agriculture Practices & Food Safety Modernization Act
Location: Kansas City, MO
March 17 - 4 to 7 pm
Production Planning and Plant Propagation
Location: Belton, MO
Cost: $15
March 31st - 4 to 7 pm
Diversifying Markets: Farmers Markets, CSAs, Wholesale and Farm to School Programs
Location: Kansas City, MO
Cost: $15
April 7 - 4 to 7 pm
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Location: Lawrence, KS
Cost: $15
April 19 - 9 am to 2 pm
Introduction to Soils
Location: Kearny, MO
Cost: $30
May 12 - 4 to 7 pm
Post-harvest Handling
Location: Kansas City, KS
Cost: $15
June 2 - 4 to 7 pm
Small Farm Equipment and Drip Irrigation
Location: Olathe Horticulture Research & Extension Center (35230 W. 135th St., Olathe, KS 66061)
Cost: $15
June 14 - 9 am to 2 pm
Introduction to Small Fruit Production
Location: Powell Gardens (1609 US Highway 50, Kingsville, MO 64061)
Cost: $30
July 12 - 9 am to 2 pm
Insect, Disease, and Weed Management
Location: Lawrence, KS
Cost: $30
July 21 - 4 to 7 pm
Low-till/No-till Cropping Systems
Location: Kansas City, MO
Cost: $15
August 9 - 9 am to 2 pm
Farm Business Planning and Management Workshop
Location: Kansas City, MO
Cost: $30
August 25 - 4 to 7 pm
Introduction to Cut Flowers
Location: Kansas City, MO
Cost: $15
September 22 - 9 am to 2 pm
Scaling Up Your Business/Packaging & Grading Produce
Location: Lawrence, KS
Cost: $30
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