September 9, 2010
Webinar

This webinar will review the types of insurance available, important things to include on your insurance policy, and how insurance can protect you, your assets and your community. A discussion of Worker's Comp regulations and insurance options will be covered.

September 9-11, 2010
Calhoun, Georgia

This event will feature educational sessions for beginning and experienced goat producers. It will also include an auction of Kiko goats.

September 9, 2010
Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Join PASA for a day on the Owens Farm, a 112 acre family-run sheep farm. The morning session will focus on the details and challenges of rotationally grazing sheep: fencing, watering systems, minerals, foot care, noxious weeds, upside-down sheep, parasite control, shade, flock movement, and winter management. After lunch, we will focus on the realities of handling sheep, both as a flock and individually.

September 9, 2010
Webinar

The eXtension Entrepreneurship webinar series is back for the fourth season. All webinars will air monthly on the second Thursday at 2:00pm (ET); 1:00pm (CT); 12:00pm (MT); 11:00am (PT). On Thursday, September 9, 2010 we open with a three-month series on specialty food businesses. September’s topic will be Starting Right in Specialty Foods. Join Brian Norder, Director of the Vermont Food Venture Center for an informative session on what it takes to start and grow a specialty food business.

September 9, 2010
Branchport, New York

The Barters have recently installed a combination wind and solar pumping system which supplies water to 58 acres of pasture. The pumping system consists of a 350 watt turbine, 160 watt solar panels, back up batteries and a deep well pump.

September 9, 2010
Lowell, Massachusetts

During the class we will discuss some of the challenges and rewards of farm ownership, as opposed to other means of satisfying your interest in farming. A primary goal of the course is to encourage you to think realistically about the financial feasibility of starting and growing your own farm businesses.

September 10, 2010
Portsmouth, Rhode Island

A culinary celebration of local foods and wines prepared by Chef Casey Riley and his extraordinary team of chefs from the Newport Restaurant Group. Arrive to chilled glasses of wine and champagne, delicious hors d’oeuvres with local ingredients from land and sea, an owners' tour of the vineyard, followed by a four-course dinner - a very special chefs' tasting paired with local wines.

September 10, 2010
Bend, Oregon

The Central Oregon Food Summit will provide an opportunity for the public, producers, retailers, food institutions, and policy makers to create a community-based framework for action toward a more food secure Central Oregon.