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Latest Polk Small Farms Program Update

Subject: Small Farms Networking Meeting September 19


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Polk Small Farms Update

Early September 2011

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

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Dear Mary,  

Hello out there!

 

Lots to look forward to this fall for small farms educational opportunities!  
I've just finished out a number of difficult milestones and ready to get busy programming!  

 

 

Raising Vegetables for Farmers Markets 
 
Saturday, September 17 10 a.m. -12 p.m.

UF/IFAS Polk County Extension Service, Bartow

See the flyer here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/Calendar/Raising%20Vegetable%20for%20Farmers%20MarketsAgenda.pdf

Register here http://raisevegesformarket.eventbrite.com/

Short notice, don't panic, I'll repeat it again this fall.

 

 

Southwest Florida Small Farmers Network Meeting 
 
Monday, September 19 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Shady Oaks Fruit Farm, Lakeland

See flyer here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/Calendar/SW%20FL%20Small%20Farmer%20Network%20meetingShadyOaks.pdf

 

See more about the network at http://sarasota.ifas.ufl.edu/AG/swfsfn.shtml

 

Please send an email to me at mbhenry@ufl.edu to let me know you are coming or call me at (863) 519-8677 x 110

 

This is the blueberry u-pick operation featured on August cover of Central Florida Ag News. Help them out by bringing along a few 2 liter bottles to build a low cost vertical garden system. We'll demonstrate how to build that system at the meeting and then you'll be asking people to collect 2 liter bottles for you so you can make your own!

See that system here http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/HS/HS118600.pdf and come out for the program!

Also, I'll be talking a bit on the farmers markets of Polk County. I recently did an interview on them for PGTV. Take a look at that interview here

See the updated fact sheet on Polk County Farmers Markets here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/publications/Farmers%20Markets/PolkFarmersMarketsUpdated82511mostrecent.pdf

Also see a new fact sheet on Polk County U-Picks here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/publications/Farmers%20Markets/PolkUpicks.pdf

 

Growing Pomegranates in Polk County Plus USDA Funding (especially energy)

October 12 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

UF/IFAS Polk County Extension Service, Bartow

See the flyer here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/Calendar/PomegranateProgramFlyerOct12.pdf

Register here http://polkpomegranates.eventbrite.com/

 

Entering Your Florida Marketmaker Profile

October 21

Neil Combee Administration Building, Bartow

See the flyer here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/Calendar/MarketmakerPolkFlyerOct%2021.pdf

Register here  http://polkmarketmaker.eventbrite.com/

 

 

 

Other important programs to consider:

October 6: Vegetable and Small Fruit Nutrient Management Meeting, GCREC, Balm, FL

See flyer here http://polk.ifas.ufl.edu/AG_Safety/files/pdf/Calendar/2011%20Vegetable%20and%20Small%20Fruit%20Nutrition%20Management%20Workshop.pdf

 

Nov. 9: Florida Ag. Expo, GCREC, Balm FL

http://flagexpo.ifas.ufl.edu/  

 

November 1, 2011 Fall Florida Blueberry Growers Association meeting

http://www.floridablueberrygrowers.com/calendar.html#year=2011&month=11&day=1&view=
month
 

 

Master Goat and Sheep Producers Certification Program

January 10-13 2012

UF/IFAS Polk County Extension Service, Bartow

Save the date! Details coming soon...

To be patterned after this program

http://www.famu.edu/cesta/main/index.cfm/cooperative-extension-program/agriculture/small-ruminant/master-goat-and-sheep-program/general-information/ 

 

 

 

This will be our first small farmers network meeting in Polk.  Yahoo!  We're getting somewhere!  I hope you can make it!

Mary Beth Henry

Small Farms/Pesticide Licensing

Extension Agent I, UF/IFAS Extension Polk County

1702 HWY. 17 S, Bartow, FL 33831 T: 863.519.8677 x 110  F: 863.534.0001

mbhenry@ufl.edu     http://polksmallfarms.comhttp://smallfarms.ifas.ufl.edu/ 

No Farmers No Food

 

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