I gave a presentation at the VABF Farm School at J Sergeant Reynolds college, Goochland, VA, with Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange on Monday evening (3/18). It was one of three classes on Sustainable Farming Practices. You can see my half here:
Between us, we covered garden planning, record keeping, crop rotations, succession cropping, storing seed and doing a seed inventory, (mostly me). And production efficiencies, online planning tools, growing healthy plants, seed growing and ripeness indicators (mostly Ira). The purpose of this program is to help beginning farmers and ranchers in Virginia to make informed farm planning decisions as part of a whole farm plan. It’s a six week comprehensive program (Monday evenings from 6:00-9:00pm) covering:
- Introduction to Whole Farm Planning
- Marketing
- Sustainable Farming Practices
- Holistic Business Management
Also on the Locavore panel was Jackson Landers, author of The Beginner’s Guide to Hunting Deer for Food and Eating Aliens (about hunting invasive animal species for food). Here’s an interesting interview with Jackson Landers from 2010 and his blog The Locavore Hunter.
Video of the lively March 21 panel discussion at the Virginia Festival of the Book is available here: http://youtu.be/Qj_jhpb788o
Rick, thanks for this. Any chance you could mail me this on a disk? I’m on a slow rural connection shared with 100 people and viewing YouTubes is very restricted. And I don’t have a twitter account either!
Pam