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SUMMARY:Slow Living Summit
DESCRIPTION:The 2017 Summit will cover the Entrepreneur to Table lifecycle including: how to bootstrap your business\, branding and marketing strategies\, distribution\, local sourcing\, creating and implementing a sustainable business model\, the stages of financing\, design thinking\, lean startup\, time management for innovation\, and more. \n\n\n\n\nLearn from the experiences\, challenges\, and learnings of seven emerging entrepreneurs based upon their involvement with Windham Grows Business Hatchery. \nThe interactive Summit design also includes Speed Dating for Entrepreneurs and an Idea Slam session where participants can get immediate feedback on their businesses or idea from successful entrepreneurs and investors. \nGet the tools\, resources\, mentorship and knowledge you need to start and grow your business. You don’t have to be established entrepreneur to get value out of the Summit! \nMore info
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/slow-living-summit-3/
LOCATION:Downtown Brattleboro\, Brattleboro\, VT
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Farmer Events
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SUMMARY:The Break Down: From Carcass to Market
DESCRIPTION:Let’s make your farm business more profitable by maximizing the yield of your carcass through smart processing choices. While acknowledging the challenges and limitations to meat processing\, there are still creative ways to meet market demand\, get customers excited about unique cuts\, and get the best value out of your animal. In this workshop we will present approaches to cutting that maximize the yields and maintain the quality of the meat. In addition\, we will discuss creative ways to market your cuts depending on your buyers including some value added ideas. As part of this workshop\, we will tour Stillman’s facilities and take a look at animal sides and quarters. \nThis workshop is in partnership with Central Mass Grown. Cost Includes handouts\, food\, and refreshments. For more information: contact Stevie at 413-665-7100 x27 or stevie@buylocalfood.org. \nCost: $10 for Local Hero & Central Mass Grown members\, $15 for non-members \n\n \n\n\n\nRegister for Workshop\n\n\nLocal Hero & Central Mass Grown members $10.00 USDNon-Members $15.00 USD\n\n\nEnter name(s) of attendees:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout the presenters:\nKate Stillman\, Stillman Quality Meats\nStillman Quality Meats (SQM) is a pasture based livestock farm\, featuring a diverse mix of livestock species: cattle\, pigs\, sheep\, chickens\, turkeys\, and water fowl. SQM is spread across two separate farmsteads in Hardwick\, MA and is a vibrant and dynamic farm operation that has grown to include a poultry abattoir and on-farm processing facility to custom process all of the farm’s grass-fed and pastured meats and poultry. The farm also attends a full schedule of farmers’ markets throughout Massachusetts and features a unique CSA system that encompasses a variety of membership options to meet the needs of their customers. \nTerry Ragasa\, Sutter Meats\nTerry Ragasa has worked steadily in the butchery industry for nearly 10 years. After his apprenticeship under Joshua Applestone\, founder of Fleishers Grass-Fed and Organic Meats in Kingston\, NY\, Terry ran the butchery at Greene Grape Provisions in Fort Greene Brooklyn. There\, he overhauled the butchery program\, moving away from cutting boxed commodity meat by developing relationships with local farmers to provide meat from whole\, humanely raised carcasses. Terry then went on to help open a green grocer/restaurant/butchery concept in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan before joining forces with his wife Susan to open Sutter Meats in Northampton\, MA in January of 2014. Sutter Meats strives to support the local farming community\, sourcing whole animals from within a 30 mile radius of the storefront. Terry now splits his time between running his shop\, visiting local farms\, and chasing around his 18 month old daughter. \nFunding for this workshop is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)/National Institute of Food and Agriculture under award 2016-70017-25423\, and by individual contributors and Local Hero members. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/the-break-down-from-carcass-to-meat/
LOCATION:Stillman Quality Meats\, 3674 Greenwich Road\, Hardwick\, MA\, 01031\, United States
CATEGORIES:CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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SUMMARY:Growing Cut Flowers: Seed to Vase - SEMAP Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join SEMAP and Weatherlow Florals to learn all about managing production of specialty cut flowers. Tour the flower fields and hoophouses at Weatherlow Farms and learn the ins and outs of growing specialty cut flowers for use in floral design\, whether for weddings\, events\, or your dining room table! We’ll discuss sourcing seeds and plugs\, trialing new varieties\, harvest and post-harvest tricks for extending vase life\, and what fun flowers and foliages you might want to add to your cutting garden. \nWhen: Thursday\, June 15\, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\nWhere: Weatherlow Farm\, 845 Sodom Rd\, Westport\, MA \nCost:  $5 Beginning Farmer\, $15 SEMAP Members\, $20 General Public \nRegister online at semaponline.org/cutflowers
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/growing-cut-flowers-seed-to-vase-semap-workshop/
LOCATION:Weatherlow Farm\, 845 Sodom Rd\, Westport\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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SUMMARY:Setting the Stage for a Successful Season with Full Spectrum Fertility - SEMAP Event
DESCRIPTION:Join SEMAP as we take a fieldwalk through the Brix Bounty Vegetable Fields to survey early season crop growth. Discussion will focus on fertility steps taken at Brix Bounty to ensure crops are able to maximize growth during the longest days of the year.  From boron to zinc we’ll cover the mineral foundations invested in each season to promote healthy\, vigorous crop growth.  Included in the tour will be a deep dive into onion production\, including:  variety selection\, enterprise analysis\, cultivation strategies\, fertility programs\, and pest and disease management. \nCost: $5 Beginning Farmers\, $15 SEMAP Members\, $20 General Public \nRegister online at semaponline.org/fertility
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/setting-the-stage-for-a-successful-season-with-full-spectrum-fertility-semap-event/
LOCATION:Brix Bounty Farm\, 449 Bakerville Farm\, Dartmouth\, MA\, 02748\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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SUMMARY:Water Management Twilight Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Event date/time:\n\nWednesday\, June 28\, 2017 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nEvent location:\n\nTangerini’s Spring St. Farm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFSMA and drought got you down? Come to this Twilight Meeting at Tangerini Farm in Millis\, MA. Tour the newly installed irrigation system for orchard and vegetable crops built with funding support from NRCS with the designer\, Trevor Hardy of Brookdale Farm\, Irrigation and Row Crop Supply. Find out water sampling protocols and lab requirements for FSMA from the UMass Food Safety Specialist Lisa McKeag and about grant opportunities for irrigation and food safety improvements. Other industry representatives will be available for consultation and dinner will be provided following the tour.\nWe will cover: irrigation water sources\, sampling for FSMA requirements\, ins-and-outs of drip irrigation\, overhead irrigation in corn\, strawberry and direct seeded crops\, irrigation under FSMA\, and orchard irrigation. \n\n\n\n\nContact’s name:\n\nLisa McKeag\n\n\n\nContact’s phone:\n\n413-577-3976\n\n\n\nContact’s email:\n\nlmckeag@umass.edu
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/water-management-twilight-meeting/
LOCATION:Tangerini Spring Street Farm\, 139 Spring Street Millis\, Massachusetts 02054
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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