Upcoming Events

An exciting day of programs, vendors, door prizes, and friendships await you at our 15th Annual Home Gardeners School. Jessica Walliser with Benefical Borders is the keynote speaker. The registration fee includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and five presentations. Multiple vendors, as well as three speakers, will have autographed material for sale. Advanced registration is required - there will be no registration at the door.

The Strawberry / Bramble School 2012 covers everything you wanted to know about strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry production in one intensive day. The school features growers who will share their experiences in plasticulture and day-neutral strawberry production.

Learn how you can accept mobile payments and make it easier for customers to pay for your local food. This webinar will provide information on the tools available to accept mobile payments for farm markets, farmers markets, roadside stands, and agritourism businesses. The webinar will share information about current tools and applications available to allow you to accept payment via smart devices. We will also share highlights about future trends in the payment industry.

Penn State Cooperative Extension is conducting a virtual Beginner Beekeeping Class starting in March 2012. The webinar course is designed to create a foundation of beekeeping knowledge in order to confidently help beginners manage honeybees. The Beekeeping for Beginners is a two month course that will include the following: 1. An eight part live webinar series (all sessions will be recorded and available until December 31, 2012) 2. Virtual Beekeeping Field Day 3. Accessibility to instructors through: -Virtual office hours -Discussion forums

This workshop gives participants the information they need to start a small food-based business, including finding the contacts and resources needed to make their business dream a reality.

Through funding from the NE-SARE, this workshop has been designed to train participants throughout the Northeast in the identification, assessment and management of soilborne pathogens and to provide resources that can be used on-farm and in various outreach activities.

Get connected with the food industry’s new online mobile web app. Make it easy for the increasing number of mobile users to find your farm, farmers’ market, winery, retail store, restaurant or other food business. Benefit from the latest technology available to you free through the growing national MarketMaker network.

Anyone can say anything about a business or product at any time. Social media provides more outlets for sharing that message. This webinar will provide tips and best practices for developing and maintaining a reputation in the social media world. It’s important to respond to positive and negative feedback, but responses need to be carefully considered. Learn more in this webinar.

How toos of production for new and aspiring organic vegetable farmers.

The Pesticide Core Credit Recertification Meeting is designd for growers, farmers, and green industry professionals to stay updated on Core pesticide safety information and is approved for 4 core pesticide recertification credits by Pennsylvania Department eof Agriculture.

Keeping track of one or more Twitter or Facebook accounts can be tedious. Thankfully, there are several tools that can be used to monitor what’s being said about any topic or to post information for multiple accounts. This session will describe computer-based tools such as HootSuite and TweetDeck as well as mobile apps that can be used to manage a company’s social media presence.

The Pesticide Core Credit Recertification Meeting is designd for growers, farmers, and green industry professionals to stay updated on Core pesticide safety information and is approved for 4 core pesticide recertification credits by Pennsylvania Department eof Agriculture.