Events

September 1, 2021: Midwest Regional Seeds Field Day: Selecting, saving, and selling regionally adapted varieties on your farm.

Join us for the Midwest Regional Seeds Field Day on September 1, 2021! Learn how seed saving farmers make selections to improve or maintain crop varieties, and how working with seed companies and universities can strengthen your farm operation. Topics and demonstrations will include regionally specific seed saving techniques, useful tools for both small-scale and wholesale seed growers, and more to be determined. See how regionally adapted seed varieties are bred by and for organic farmers. Hosted by Organic Seed Alliance and Greg Reynolds of Riverbend Farm, in collaboration with Koby Jeshkeit-Hagen of Seed Sages, and Dr. Julie Dawson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This field day is being offered free of charge, though pre-registration is required.
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Questions? Contact Michael Lordon.

The Collaborative Plant Breeding Network Attended these Events in early 2021:

1/16/21-1/23/21 NOFA-NY Seed track https://nofany.org/2021-winter-conference/seed-conference/
1/21/21-1/23/21 Practical Farmers of Iowa https://practicalfarmers.org/events/annual-conference
1/25/2021 Wisconsin Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Growers https://freshfruitvegetable.wildapricot.org/
2/12/21-2/13/21 Great Plains Growers Conference https://www.greatplainsgrowersconference.org/
2/13/21-2/15/21 OEFFA https://www.oeffa.org/conference2020.php
2/17/21-2/21/21 Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference http://www.smallfarmconference.com/about-1
2/22/21-2/27/21 MOSES Conference

https://mosesorganic.org/conference/

Join us for one or more of our seed round tables on February 23, 24, 25, and 26 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM CST!
3/4/21-3/6/21 Indiana Small Farms Conference https://www.purdue.edu/dffs/smallfarms/small-farm-conference-2021/
Thursdays 1/7/21 through 1/28/21 Minnesota Organic Conference https://www.mda.state.mn.us/environment-sustainability/minnesota-organic-conference

Funding

This project was funded in 2014 by the Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant, part of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Grant number 2020-51300-32176.