2013 Events Calendar
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| Jan 10–March 28 6pm–9pm |
Farm Business Planning Course, Thursday evenings, Sakuma Auditorium, WSU Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, WA. |
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| Jan 11–March 28 2pm–4pm |
Septics 201 Class, Sakuma Auditorium, WSU Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, WA. |
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| Jan 15, 22,29 & Feb 5 9am–3:30pm |
Value Added Workshop Series, Sakuma Auditorium, WSU Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, WA. Four weeks of one day/week intensive classes to learn all you need to know in order to extend your market season through value-added products. |
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| Jan 25 9am–4:30pm |
Western Washington Agricultural Association Meeting joint with the Puget Sound Seed Growers Association., Sakuma Auditorium. WWAA meeting from 9am to noon with lunch catered, PSSGA meeting begins at 1:00pm with (3) pesticide recertification credits available. |
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| Feb 12 9am–4pm |
Grafting Watermelon and Tomato, Hands-On Workshop, Sakuma Auditorium. Learn how to use the splice-graft technique to graft tomato and watermelon successfully. Demonstrations will also show how to do multiple grafts on a single tomato plant. Participants will use common rootstocks for each crop and will graft 6 plants of each crop which they can take home ($48 value). |
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| Feb 20 8:30am–4:30pm |
ECORAZ Symposium, Sakuma Auditorium. The main goals of the 2013 symposium are: To understand the scope of the issues around raspberry decline; To identify work being done to reduce impacts of raspberry decline as well as gaps in research; To develop a systems based research proposal incorporating many of the ECORAZ factors and involving a diversity of researchers from multiple locations. |
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| Feb 22 8am–6pm |
Western Washington Potato Workshop, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Feb 26 10am–2pm |
Island County Beach Watchers Planning Meeting, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Mar 2 8:30am–3:30pm |
Western WA Fruit Research Foundation’s Winter Field Day, WSU NWREC, Mount Vernon, WA. The theme this year is Local and Organic. They will have rootstock and scion wood sales, workshops on pruning and grafting, and fruit garden demonstrations on pruning. |
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| Mar 8–9 8:30am–4:30pm |
Specialty Cut Flower Growers School, Mount Vernon, WA. This two-day workshop will offer classroom and on-farm instruction to help students begin growing and selling high quality cut flowers. Friday classroom instruction will be held in the Sakuma Auditorium and WSU Mount Vernon NWREC. Saturday instruction will be held at Jello Mold Farm in Mount Vernon. |
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| Mar 11 2–4pm |
Septics 201, WSU Mount Vernon, Sakuma Auditorium, Mount Vernon, WA. |
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| Mar 12 1–4pm |
Skagit County Master Gardener’s Spring Kick-Off Meeting |
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| Mar 19 1–2:30pm |
Know & Grow Workshop: “Gardening to Attract Butterflies”, Sakuma Auditorium. Idie Ulsh, of the American Butterfly Association, will talk about what plants to grow to attract butterflies to your garden. Free and open to the public. |
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| Mar 25 12pm–1pm |
Brown Bag Seminar “Cider Apple Mechanical Harvest and Clicker Surveys”, Sakuma Auditorium, Mount Vernon, WA. Jonathan Roozen and Dr. Carol Miles will present an overview of their current research program to mechanically harvest cider apples. |
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| Mar 27 9am–4pm |
Washington Berry Food Safety Training, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Mar 28 2pm–4pm |
Septics 201, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Apr 2 8:30am–12:30pm |
Farmer to Farmer Networks Workshop, Sakuma Auditorium. Learn the fundamentals of starting and managing a farmer network. Perfect for extension professionals, researchers, ag policy makers and advocacy groups, nonprofit leaders and representatives of agencies that serve farmers. |
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| Apr 10 9:30am–12pm |
Washington Farm Labor Association Harassment Training, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Apr 16 1pm–2:30pm |
Know & Grow Workshop: “Underground Gems – The Splendor of Spring and Summer Bulbs for the Pacific Northwest”, Sakuma Auditorium. From daffodils to dahlias, learn to care for the many varieties (including unusual and native) that grow here. Free and open to the public. |
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| Apr 17 2pm–4pm |
Septics 201, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| Apr 27 10am–12pm |
Native Plant Society Plant Sale. The sale will be held at the Native Plant Garden, located south of the Master Gardener Discovery Garden at the WSU Mount Vernon Research Center, 16650 State Route 536, Mount Vernon. |
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| Apr 30 12pm–1pm |
Brown Bag Seminar “Vegetable Grafting Training in Nicaragua”. Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| May 5 11:30am–2:00pm |
WA Sustainable Food & Farming Network Meeting, Discovery Garden Pavilion at the WSU Mount Vernon Research Center. |
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| May 8 9am–11am |
Farming for Wildlife Meeting, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| May 9 11am–2pm |
State of Washington Potato Committee Meeting, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| May 11 8am–2pm |
Skagit County Master Gardener Foundation Plant Fair, Skagit County Fairgrounds, Building F, Mount Vernon, Washington. Free admission and parking. |
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| May 14 1–2:30pm |
Know & Grow Workshop “Gardening in Raised Beds and Containers”, Sakuma Auditorium. Do you have poor soil, limited space or a bad back? Learn how to raise vegetables, flowers, fruits and shrubs in raised beds and containers. Free and open to the public. |
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| May 15 10am–4pm |
Northwest Farm Credit Services Local Advisor Meeting, Small Auditorium. |
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| May 29 8:30am–4:30pm |
NWA On-Site Sewage Association Training Class, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| June 6 9:30am–2:30pm |
Washington Friends of Farms & Forests Meeting, WSU Mount Vernon Treehouse. |
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| June 12–13 10am–4pm |
Puget Sound Partners Panel Meeting, Sakuma Auditorium |
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| June 18 1pm–2:30pm |
Master Gardener Know & Grow Workshop “Ikebana”, Sakuma Auditorium. A hands-on workshop in the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Please bring your own shallow container, needle frog and clippers. There is a $5 fee; reservations should be made by June 10. Email or phone Diana Wisen, dmwisen@fidalgo.net, 360-336-8958. |
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| June 22 8:30am–4pm |
Business of Making Hard Cider, Sakuma Auditorium. |
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| June 27 3pm–6pm |
Small Grains Field Day, Sakuma Auditorium. WSU Mount Vernon. Join us to tour our research fields and to discuss the production of small grains such as wheat, oats, rye and barley in Western Washington for food, feed, and malt. (This is an outside activity, please dress accordingly.) |
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| July 8–12 8am–5pm |
Cider Making, Principles and Practice, WSU Mount Vernon. |
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| July 11 3:30pm–6pm |
WSU Mount Vernon NWREC Field Day and Tour, Mount Vernon, WA. Join us to learn about current agricultural research at WSU Mount Vernon NWREC, and to catch up with others in the Agricultural community. |
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| September 12–14 |
Kneading Conference West, WSU Mount Vernon. KCW is a gathering of home and professional bakers, farmers, millers, maltsters, scientist, earth oven enthusiasts and anyone interested in handcrafted breads and pastries, locally grown grains, and the movement to restore regional food systems. |
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