Search the site

Summer Field School ’22 Class #1: Specialty Produce and Irrigation

Creative Seeds Farm 422 W Glade Street, Glade Spring, Virginia, United States

Join us at Creative Seeds Farm for a session on Specialty Produce and Irrigation. With local food in high demand, this course will help you determine what type of crops […]

Free

Summer Field School ’22 Class #2: Season Extension

TNT Farm N Greenhouse 32367 Taos Ln, Meadowview, Virginia, United States

Join us at TNT Farm N Greenhouse for a class of Season Extension. Season extension provides early and late harvests, winter harvests, and longer harvest windows. These techniques also offer […]

Free

Summer Field School ’22 Class #3: Aggregation/Distribution

Appalachian Harvest 280 Boone Trail Road, Duffield, Virginia, United States

Join us at Appalachian Harvest for a class on Aggregation and Distribution services and more. Season extension provides early and late harvests, winter harvests, and longer harvest windows. These techniques […]

Free

Summer Field School Class #4: Integrating Multiple Operations

Kelly Ridge Farms 30558 Old Saltworks Road, Meadowview, Virginia, United States

Integrating operations is key to incremental success in farming.  Farms aren't about single product lines, but about how you can design your operations to support each other and build your […]

Free

Summer Field School Class #5: Rotational Grazing and Cattle Work

Valor Valley Farm 4949 Pounding Mill Branch Rd, Pounding Mill, Virginia, United States

Darrell Wess and family started Valor Valley Farm in 2017 as a cow/calf operation. They have specialties in good land stewardship, quality cattle, and environmental conservation and sell at livestock […]

Free

Summer Field School Class #6: Beekeeping

Fungirl Farms 19543 Old Jonesboro Rd, Abingdon, Virginia, United States

Debbie Mott grew up on a ranch in Arizona. Her and her husband had a horse ranch in Coeur d’Alene Idaho and now have a farm in Southwest Virginia.” At […]

Free

Summer Field School Class #7: Forest Farming

Appalachian Cove Forest Farm and Homestead 2857 Cox Chapel Rd, Duffield, Virginia, United States

Join us at Appalachian Cove Forest Farm & Homestead to learn about Forest Farming with Ryan Huish. Appalachian Cove farmers have been gardening/farming for several decades at various places. At […]

Free

Summer Field School Class #8: Fruit/Apple Orchards

Kelly Ridge Farms 30558 Old Saltworks Road, Meadowview, Virginia, United States

Visit Tumbling Creek Cider Company’s expanding orchards to learn about cider apple varieties, propagation, planting, maintenance and how to re-establish the apple industry in our region. We’ll tour the Old […]

Free

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES With JUSTEN DICK

Integrating operations is key to incremental success in farming. Farms aren’t about single product lines, but about how you can design your operations to support each other and build your […]

$10

Beekeeping with Steve Payne and Chad Overhold

Begin in the Farm Clubhouse, where Steve and Chad will describe how to start your own apiary and then move to the apiary and open a hive (extra protective suits […]

$10

Apple Orchards with Tom McMullen

Visit Tumbling Creek Cider Company’s expanding orchards to learn about cider apple varieties, propagation, planting, maintenance, and how to re-establish the apple industry in our region.We’ll tour the Old Orchard […]

$10

FOREST FARMING WITH RYAN HUISH

If you are interested in getting back to your Appalachian roots, what better way to do that than Forest Farming?Ryan and his family have been gardening/farming for several decades at […]

$10
©2024 Appalachian Sustainable Development. All rights reserved.