Save the Date! NWI Vegetable Growers Series Programs for vegetable farmers are scheduled for Feb. 1, 2024, in Elkhart and Porter Counties. The half-day event will include presentations on pumpkin weed management, compost use in high tunnels, soil health, and a marketing panel. PARP credits are available. $10 cash is payable on the day of…Read more about Feb. 1, 2024 Vegetable Programs in Northern Indiana[Read More]
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The Midwest Cover Crops Council (MCCC) will host its 2024 Annual Meeting and Conference at the Crowne Plaza Indianapolis-Airport on February 13-14, 2024. The MCCC is a collaboration of researchers, extension staff, farmers, agencies, and industry with the mission of facilitating the widespread adoption of cover crops across the Midwest. February 13th is the MCCC…Read more about Midwest Cover Crops Council to Host Conference in Indianapolis[Read More]
The Winter Market Gardener: A Successful Grower’s Handbook for Year-Round Harvests. By Jean-Martin Fortier (Author), Catherine Sylvestre (Author), and Laurie Bennett (Translator). Publication date: October 10, 2023 An exciting new book about winter farming is now available. This might be great reading material for the fall/winter. I am including a video that gives you some background about the book. …Read more about New Book – The Winter Market Gardener[Read More]
Home-based vendors (HBV) in Indiana must follow certain regulations to sell food products made in a non-inspected space, like a home kitchen. HBV regulations require vendors to obtain a food handler certificate and restrict where HBVs may sell their products. Until recently, whole, uncut produce was subject to HBV regulations and requirements. As of July…Read more about Recent Changes in Home-Based Vendors Regulations[Read More]
Various Ways to be Involved with SARE SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) has various ways to be involved beyond the grant opportunities that come out every year. One other way to be involved with SARE is to review grants that come in. If you have been wanting to learn more about the SARE grant…Read more about Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) News[Read More]
September 25th began cloudy and gray, with a hint of autumn in the air and the bustle of field day preparation on Ohio State’s Wooster campus. The Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day, an annual event by The Land Connection, partnered with Ohio State this year to bring mechanical weed control demonstrations to northeast Ohio….Read more about See Weeds Perish Up Close and In Person at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day![Read More]
Vegetable Crops Hotline Newsletter Subscribers, I am requesting your feedback on your experience with the Vegetable Crops Hotline Newsletter (VCH) and your input regarding 2024 content. Your responses will help us make decisions about what crops to feature and any vegetable crop issues that you may like us to focus on in the coming year….Read more about Vegetable Crops Hotline Newsletter Survey[Read More]
Welcome to the Vegetable Crops Hotline (VCH), Purdue Extension’s exclusive newsletter for people in the business of growing vegetables. In this last issue of 2023, we highlight an overview of the Mechanical Weed Control field day, food safety and SARE news, and we look at winter educational events. Very Important: Vegetable Crop Hotline Survey We…Read more about From The Editor’s Desk[Read More]
To say the last few months have been dry is a bit of an understatement. Since August 1st, only a sliver of Newton and Benton counties (northwest Indiana) and the tiniest speck of Warrick County (southwest Indiana) have had above-normal precipitation. Most of western Indiana has been near (but below) normal, while the rest of…Read more about October Favored to be Wetter than Normal[Read More]
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