From Season-Long Care to Harvest
This course continues where BF 120 ends, and covers vegetable production from transplanting to harvest, including information on in-season fertility, integrated pest management, weed control options, harvesting strategies, and tips for marketing your products.
Participating in the weekly on-line discussions can help you with your plans for the coming growing season. (Note: You do NOT need to take BF 120 to enroll in this course)
Target Audience
Beginning to Intermediate: This course is for aspiring farmers and those with at least one growing season of vegetable farming experience. You should already have a basic understanding of how to select crops, manage bed preparation, seeding, and transplanting. This course targets farmers in the Northeastern US. Farmers outside the region are welcome to register, but should do so knowing that some of the information presented may not be appropriate for their region.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Make good decisions about fertility management for your specific crops
- Understand options available for weed, pest, and disease control
- Be able to identify problem weeds, pests and diseases on your farm
- Learn successful harvesting and marketing strategies
Webinars
The bulk of the course happens on your own time, with discussions, readings, and assignments in Teachable, our virtual classroom. To add to the experience, webinars will be woven into the online interface of the course to allow you to meet on a weekly basis to learn from outside presenters and ask questions to address your farm issues in real time. If you miss one, they are always recorded and posted for later viewing.
Webinar Schedule
Live instruction for 2024 has concluded. You are welcome to
enroll now to complete this course on a self-paced schedule and join our next
live session in Winter 2025. All webinars are recorded and posted in your
online classroom to watch anytime. Once enrolled in this course, you will
retain access to all materials indefinitely and may return to participate in
future live offerings of the course as well. Please join us!
Amy is very enthusiastic and knowledgeable. As an instructor Amy explains the material very clearly and is consistently open to questions as well as offering expert advice. The presenters were also very informative and well versed in their field of expertise.
— Andrew H., Student
From this course I collected a huge document filled with webinar
notes, resources, and links that I will continue to use well past the
end of the course.
— June C., Student