Collaboration
Specialty Crop Regenerative Ag 2025 hands-on and online workshop examples:
- Zones, soil, amendments
- Specialty crops, costs, markets, trends
- Prepping, sowing, planting, pruning, harvesting
- Irrigation, energy, pests, rodents
- Companion planting, layering, succession, rotation
- Cover crops, winter and spring preparation
- Selling- CSA, farmer’s markets, restaurants
- Costing and creating additional products: canning, cooking, etc.
Action Items
- Meet with local restaurants, markets (in person and online), and farmer’s markets to develop specialty crop revenue opportunities.
- Online synchronous workshops. Transition onsite workshop content to online. Add additional content to extend work beyond onsite workshops.
- Provide mentorship and/or support to farmers and apprentices regarding specialty crops and regenerative agriculture.
- Provide demonstration farm space.