Calendar
* SAREP WEB CALENDAR
SAREP offers a regularly updated sustainable agriculture calendar on our World Wide Web site at:http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ (click on "Courses, Workshops, Events"). Please feel free to add sustainable agriculture events.
* NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR
The National Agricultural Library maintains a calendar as part of AgNIC at http://www.agnic.org It links to more than 1,200 major national and international agricultural conferences.
* MONTHLY MEETINGS
Lighthouse Farm Network The Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation sponsors informal monthly meetings for growers to discuss issues related to pesticide use reduction. Contact: Reggie Knox, CAFF, (831) 457-1007.
FEBRUARY
TBA
Bring Farm Edges Back to Life, 2-hour field workshop, Yolo County. Sponsors: Yolo County
Resource Conservation District, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, UC
SAREP/International Tree Crops Institute. Contact: Paul Robins, Yolo County Resource
Conservation District, (530) 662-2037 ext. 3, rednatives@hotmail.com
.
26-27
Soil Fertility & Pest Management Conference & Farm Tour: Field
Crops/Orchards/Vineyards, Modesto Junior College. Sponsors: Committee for Sustainable
Agriculture, Nat’l Resources Conservation Service, CALFED Bay-Delta Prog., CAL/EPA
IWMB, UC SAREP. Contact: CSA (831) 763-2111, csaefc@csa-efc.org
28
Annual Strawberry Growers Meeting, UC Cooperative Extension office, Fresno. Sponsors: UC
Cooperative Extension Fresno, UC SAREP. Contact: Richard Molinar or Michael Yang, (209)
456-7555, rhmolinar@ucdavis.edu
MARCH
TBA early March
Marketing Your Agricultural Product workshop, Hyampom Community Center, Trinity County.
Sponsors: Hyampom Valley Growers Association, Trinity County Resource Conversation &
Development, UC SAREP. Contact: William Huber, (530) 628-5128.
TBA
Bring Farm Edges Back to Life, 2-hour field workshop, Yolo County. Sponsors: Yolo County
Resource Conservation District, Community Alliance with Family Farmers, UC
SAREP/International Tree Crops Institute. Contact: Paul Robins, Yolo County Resource
Conservation District, (530) 662-2037 ext. 3, rednatives@hotmail.com
.
3
Strawberry Grower’s Conference & Farm Tour, UC Cooperative Extension,
Watsonville. Sponsors: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, Nat’l Resource
Conservation Service, CALFED Bay-Delta Prog., CAL/EPA IWMB, UC SAREP. Contact: CSA
(831-763-2111, csaefc@csa-efc.org
17
Cool-Season Vegetable Grower’s Conference & Farm Tour, Salinas Agriculture
Center. Sponsors: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, Nat’l Resource Conservation
Service, CALFED Bay-Delta Prog., CAL/EPA IWMB, UC SAREP. Contact: CSA (831) 763-2111, csaefc@csa-efc.org
APRIL
TBA early April
Cover Cropping in Vineyards: Experimental Results and Species Demonstration, Deer
Creek Vineyard, Sacramento County. Sponsors: UC Cooperative Extension Sacramento,UC SAREP.
Contact: Chuck Ingels, (916) 875-6913, caingels@ucdavis.edu
3
Digging Toward the Future: Youth Urban Agriculture Conference, Grant High
School, Sacramento. Sponsors: Project YE’ES Community Education Center/Urban Garden
Program, UC SAREP. Contact: CEC(530)752-7956.
23
Community Food Security Access for All workshop, Humboldt County Agricultural Center,
Eureka. Sponsor: UC Cooperative Extension Humboldt County, Food for People, Inc.,
UC SAREP. Contact: Deborah Giraud (707)445-7351, ddgiraud@ucdavis.edu
or Cynthia Chason, (707) 445-3166.
TBA late April-early May
The California Grazing Academy 3-day workshop, UC Sierra Foothill Research
& Extension Center. Sponsors: UC Cooperative Extension Napa & Solano counties, UC
SAREP. Contact: Roger Ingram (530) 889-7385, rsingram@ucdavis.edu
; Dave Pratt (707) 421-6790 #7, dwpratt@ucdavis.edu
JUNE
TBA
Maintaining Sustainable Communities Through Effective Use of Easements and Estate Planning, Santa Rosa. Sponsors: California FarmLink, Community Alliance with Family
Farmers, UC SAREP. Contact: Steve Schwartz (916) 443-4225, farmlink@tomatoweb.com
14-19
California Range & Natural Resources Camp, UC Elkus
Youth Ranch, Half Moon Bay. Sponsors: Society of Range Management, Alameda County Resource
Conservation District, UC SAREP. Contact: Rodney Tripp, (510) 287-2022 or Sheila Barry
(925) 371-0154 ext. 41.
AUGUST
16-17
International Short Course on Agroecology, Center for Agroecology &
Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz. Full course announcement on-line: http://www.agroecology.org/shortcourse.htm
Applications due Mar. 1. Contact: CASFS, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
Tel: (831) 459-2506; Fax: (831) 459-2867.
SEPTEMBER
21
Food Safety Issues & Small Farms, Rancho Grande Restaurant,
Watsonville. Sponsors: Community Alliance with Family Farmers Lighthouse Farm Educ.
Events, UC SAREP. Contact: Reggie Knox, caff@caff.org ;
(831) 457-1007 (Knox), reggie@cruzio.com
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