Upcoming events in Manitoba
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Farm Tour and Cover Cropping Workshop with Wild Earth Farms
June 28, 2024: Oakbank, MB
Join us for a tour of Wild Earth Farms where we’ll explore the ups and downs of working cover crops into a vegetable rotation. We’ll discuss the farm’s goals for this particular crop and share cover crop stories. Manitoba Agriculture’s Vegetable Extension Specialist will also be on hand to demonstrate and discuss soil sampling and analysis, and we’ll review the results of spring samples taken on the farm. There’ll be plenty of time for networking too! There will be snacks and coffee provided but attendees are also invited to join the organizers after the tour at Pineridge Hollow to eat and talk shop.
Farmer, Miller, Baker Event
Blumenort, Mon. July 8, 10-2
The day will start in the Organic fields of Millview Grains farm which surrounds the mill. The tour will highlight organic management including this year's alfalfa forage and alfalfa seed with rented pollinators to aid in seed production. The tour will then move into the mill for guest speakers from Bauta Seed Initiative, a tour of the mill and a delicious lunch featuring ingredients from the mill itself. Cost: $10
Black's Family Farm Tour
Deloraine, Thur. Aug 8, 10-2
We will be visiting different fields on the Black family farm to show that each field has a different field history, different crops, and different soil and weather conditions. Highlighting how the Blacks maintain good yield in an organic production system using Cover crops, green manure plow-down, Rapid Decomposition, Phosphorus availability, and nutrient cycling.
The tour will end back at the Black's yard site for networking and lunch.
Cost: $10
Mentors
Zack Koscielny
Cover Crop Mentor - MB
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Zack Koscielny is an owner-operator at Green Beach Farm & Food where he strives to improve agroecosystem health with every management decision. His farm includes a commercial cow-calf operation, naturally raised pork, and certified organic grains. Zack has a deep passion for agriculture and the environment and pursued a degree in Agroecology at the University of Manitoba. He also has training from the Soil Health Academy school at the MBFI Research Station and is excited by the possibilities regenerative agriculture offer farmers.
Scott Beaton
Cover Crop Mentor - MB
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Scott Beaton and his wife Jenny and young family, farm near Stonewall, Manitoba. Scott completed a degree in Agronomy at the University of Manitoba in 2004. He started farming in 2008 and grew his first organic crop in 2014, expanding his organic production in 2014 and again in 2019. The farm includes grains and grass-fed cattle. Scott is active in organic agricultural education and a popular speaker at farm meetings. He is the host of the MOA Grain on the Brain podcast. Scott emphasizes the important of smart resource management and maintenance of biodiversity on the farm.
Instructor(s)
Liz Martins
Cover Crop Mentor - MB
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I am a Professional Agrologist based out of St. Pierre-Jolys and provide independent consulting services to both conventional and organic farms. I specialize in integrated pest management, soil fertility and on-farm trials.
Organic agriculture pushes the boundaries of conventional thinking by proving what is possible. Critically thinking about how management decisions affect your crops and alternative management styles are the keys to success.
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