Fall Vegetable Farm Soil Health and Cover Crop Meeting
Event Details
Date
October 4, 2024
Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Fox Creek Farm
182 Fox Creek Farm Road
Schoharie, NY 12157
Cost
There is no cost for this event : Free
Host
Fox Creek Farm
Sara and Raymond Luhrman
518-872-2375
email Sara and Raymond Luhrman
Fall Vegetable Farm Soil Health and Cover Crop Meeting
Fall Vegetable Farm Soil Health and Cover Crop Meeting, Friday 10/4/24
Location: Fox Creek Farm, 182 Fox Creek Farm Road, Schoharie, NY 12157
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00pm
Come learn about soil health and cover cropping at Fox Creek Farm in Schoharie on Friday 10/4/24. Owners, Sara and Raymond Luhrman will share their simple cover cropping program that has maintained productive soils over almost 20 years of intensive vegetable production. Walk the fields, see their fall cover crops growing, ask your questions and get your answers. This program will be geared towards beginning vegetable farmers.
And take this opportunity also to learn a bit more about the soil health programs offered by the Schoharie County Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Cornell Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program.
Meeting starts at 4:30 PM, with food at 6:00. Please register so we know how many people to expect.
Program made possible with funding through a grant from the New York Soil Health Program. For more information on Fox Creek Farm, visit their website at: www.foxcreekfarmcsa.com
Apples
Apricots
Asparagus
Beets
Blueberries
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Cherries
Cucumbers
Dry Beans
Eggplant
Ethnic Vegetables
Garlic
Grapes
Horseradish
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce / Leafy Greens
Melons
Nectarines
Onions
Parsnips
Peaches
Pears
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Potatoes
Pumpkins / Gourds
Radishes
Raspberries / Blackberries
Rhubarb
Rutabaga
Snap Beans
Squash - Summer
Squash- Winter
Strawberries
Sweet Corn
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Turnips
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