Tarping in the Northeast: A Guide for Small Farms
Event Details
Date
March 16, 2022
Time
11:00am - 12:30pm
Location
Webinar
Host
Join us for an overview of a newly created guide to tarping for the Northeast, presented by one of the guide's authors.
This resource is the product of a Northeastern IPM Center-funded working group on tarping and soil solarization. Working group member and presenter Sonja Birthisel, along with her colleagues, sought to create a thorough and application-oriented guide that identifies best practices and fills key knowledge gaps. It covers many uses of tarps, including stale seedbed preparation, cover-crop termination, and application in perennial systems.
Birthisel will engage attendees in a lively, comprehensive discussion of tarping, and provide them with a copy of this new resource.
Register at cornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pKKTKtKPThy3VZGceIeoOw.
The webinar will be recorded for anyone unable to attend the live session.
You can find the guide: Tarping in the Northeast: A Guide for Small Farms here.
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