Field Restoration Workshop – June 6
Join the VYCC for a discussion led by Bruce Hennessey of Maple Wind Farm about “Grass, the Animals that Eat it, and the Vegetables they Help Grow: An Integrated Approach to Conserving the Working Landscape.” The walk and talk will be held at the VYCC’s Monitor Barns Farm (off Rte 2, two miles east of Richmond, VT) on Sunday June 6, from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Free and open to the public, the interactive workshop will explore how diversified farmers at Maple Wind Farm and the VYCC use cover cropping, legume seeding, and high density grazing to add organic matter and fertility to conventional corn ground in preparation for high quality organic (after transition) vegetable production.
Participants will meet at the VYCC Headquarters Monitor Barn Parking Lot and proceed to the field from there.
VYCC and Maple Wind entered into a cooperative partnership to form the Monitor Barns Farm CSA in 2009 and are in their second season of vegetable and poultry production this spring. For more information, visit our Farm and Food Program website.