Registration is now open for KRC Specialty Crop Workshops in South Hutchinson, Dighton
Registration is open for the Kansas Rural Center’s Specialty Crop Workshops in South Hutchinson and Dighton this March. The South Hutchinson workshop will be held on March 20, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the South Hutchinson Community Building, 101 Avenue C, South Hutchinson. The Dighton workshop will be held on March 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the 4-H Building at the Lane County Fairgrounds, Fairgrounds Road, Dighton. There is a $15 registration fee for each workshop, which will cover the cost of lunch and materials.
For more information and to register for the workshops, please visit https://kansasruralcenter.org/krcs-2018-specialty-crop-workshops/.
Please register by March 14, so that we can get an accurate lunch count.
The workshops will provide information and education necessary for beginning specialty crop growers to establish a successful specialty crop enterprise in Kansas. Each workshop will focus on conservation, production and marketing practices for specialty crop growers, and will provide an excellent opportunity for beginning growers to connect with and learn from experienced growers.
Each workshop will provide information on the state of specialty crops in Kansas, with David Coltrain answering the question, “What’s Special About Specialty Crops?” Coltrain will look at current production, historical production and potential production of specialty crops in Kansas. Economic considerations and enterprise budgets for growing specialty crops will be covered.
Information on accessing the many resources that are available to help specialty crop growers be successful in their operations will be provided at each workshop.
For more detailed information on each workshop and to register, please visit https://kansasruralcenter.org/krcs-2018-specialty-crop-workshops/.
The workshops are part of a five-workshop series that the Kansas Rural Center is hosting this March, as part of their “Linking Experienced and Beginning Kansas Specialty Crop Farmers to Share Information for Establishing Successful Specialty Crop Enterprises Project,” which is funded by the Kansas Department of Agriculture through the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant program.
To learn more about the workshop series, please contact David Coltrain at 620-330-3951 or [email protected]. You can also email [email protected]. For questions about the project as a whole, please contact Mary Fund at [email protected] or 866-579-5469.
The mission of KRC, a non-profit research, education and advocacy organization founded in 1979, is to promote the long-term health of the land and its people through research, education and advocacy that advance an economically viable, ecologically sound and socially just food and farming system. For more information, visit www.kansasruralcenter.org.
