April 20, 2021 Webinar: Growing Organic Tomato Seed: A How-To Virtual Training
Are you interested in producing high quality organic tomato seed for your own farm or for sale? Join Tomato Organic Management and Improvement Project (TOMI) partners Laurie McKenzie and Jared Zystro from Organic Seed alliance, and Plant Pathologist Dan Egel from Purdue University for a virtual training on the how-to’s of organic tomato seed production. This webinar will cover tomato biology, climatic requirements, genetic maintenance, disease management, and how to harvest clean and store tomato seed. The webinar takes place on April 20, 2021 at 12PM Pacific Time, 1PM Mountain, 2PM Central, 3PM Eastern Time. It's free and open to the public, and advance registration is required.
Register now at https://oregonstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6s2v6x_SRnC9iSl7iG-f2A
This training is based on the recently published Tomato Seed Production Guide available for free download at https://seedalliance.org/publications/tomato-seed-production-guide/
Funding
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This project was funded in 2014, 2019 and 2024 by the Organic Research and Extension Initiative grant, part of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Award numbers 2014-51300-22267, 2019-51300-30245 and 2024-51300-4337