Calendar of Events

 

Below is a summary of the events hosted by Growing Roots partners during the USDA-NIFA grant period, December 2014 to December 2017.  For more information about the workshop hosts, refer to the Core Partners page.

 

Date	Core Partner	Event Title
12/1/14	NCAT	Soil Health
2/1/15	UCB	Food Safety Training at UCGTCF
3/25/15	SAGE	Farmer-Buyer Mixer
3/31/15	SAGE	Tax Workshop
4/9/15	NCAT	Pest ID Part 1
4/15/15	ACRCD	Creating Secure Land Tenure Agreements
4/18/15	SAGE	Farm Tour & Plant Sale
4/26/15	UCB	Community Farm Birthday Party and Permaculture Action Day
5/21/15	NCAT	Soil Health & Drought
6/6/15	NCAT	Pastured Pork & Ruminants
6/7/15	NCAT	Pest/Beneficial ID
6/15/15	SAGE	Weed Management Workshop with Jim Leap
6/24/15	ACRCD	Managing Outdoor Hogs in Woodland
6/25/15	ACRCD	Outdoor Pig Production: Managing Forage and Natural Resources for a successful Farm Business-Rootdown Farm
7/2/15	SAGE	Bookkeeping II (a)
7/10/15	SAGE	Farmer-Buyer Mixer
7/14/15	NCAT	Pest ID Part 2
7/20/15	SAGE	Collaborative Bookkeeping
7/23/15	SAGE	Bookkeeping II (b)
8/15/15	NCAT	Pastured Poultry
8/19/15	SAGE	Walking Workshop & Farm Tour - Exotic Seeds
8/22/15	UCB	Improving Your Soil Quality (for the Urban Food Grower)
9/2/15	NCAT	Practical Ecological Pest Management
9/5/15	ACRCD	Olive Oil Producer Group mtg
9/16/15	SAGE	Walking Workshop & Farm Tour - Seed Saving
9/17/15	UCB	Learning Hub Retreat
9/20/15	NCAT	Good Bug/Bad Bug
09/21/15	UCB	Harvest Festival
9/23/15	NCAT	Business Planning Series: 1
9/27/15	SAGE	Beginning Farmers Tour
9/27/15	SAGE	Harvest Festival
10/6/15	NCAT	Soils & Interpreting Soil Tests
10/7/15	NCAT	Business Planning Series: 2
10/12/15	NCAT	Soils & Interpreting Soil Tests
10/14/15	UCB	Cottage Foods Train the Trainer workshop
10/14/15	NCAT	Business Planning Series: 3
10/17/15	NCAT	Soils & Interpreting Soil Tests
10/21/15	NCAT	Business Planning Series: 4
10/22/15	UCB	Soils Workshop
10/28/15	NCAT	Business Planning Series: 5
11/3/15	UCB	The Central Tenets of Integrated Pest Management
11/4/15	UCB	Food Safety
11/10/15	NCAT	Recordkeeping for Organic Certification
11/17/15	NCAT	Urban Farming: Business Models and Marketing Techniques
12/21/15	ACRCD	Local Meat Producer Group/Slaughter Processing
2/8/16	NCAT	Marketing 101
2/23/16	UCB	Cottage Food Law and County Permitting Process
2/23/16	UCB	Cottage Food Safety & Sanitation
2/23/16	UCB	Drying Fruits and Vegetables as Cottage Foods
2/23/16	UCB	Cottage Foods Fruit Butters, Jams and Jellies
2/23/16	UCB	Managing and Marketing Cottage Foods
3/2/16	NCAT	Botany & Plant Science for Beginning Farmers
3/14/16	NCAT	Marketing your Products: Part 2
3/16/16	NCAT	Best Conservation Management Practice for Strawberry Growers - Meeting
3/20/16	UCB	Permaculture Action Day
3/29/16	NCAT	Business Planning: Goals and Mission Statements
3/30/16	ACRCD	Holistic Management Whole Ranch Planning Course
3/31/16	ACRCD	Holistic Management Whole Ranch Planning Course
4/5/16	NCAT	Marketing and Branding
4/18/16	NCAT	IPM
4/21/16	SAGE	Marketing plants and starts
4/21/16	UCB	Cottage Food Law and County Permitting Process
4/21/16	UCB	Cottage Food Safety & Sanitation
4/21/16	UCB	Drying Fruits and Vegetables as Cottage Foods
4/21/16	UCB	Cottage Foods Fruit Butters, Jams and Jellies
4/21/16	UCB	Managing and Marketing Cottage Foods
4/24/16	NCAT	IPM - Application
4/24/16	UCB	Earth Day Festival
4/29/16	NCAT	Marketing Channels & Marketing Strategies
5/7/16	SAGE	Farm Tour
5/26/16	ACRCD	Ranching for Profit Workshop
6/4/16	UCB	Improving Your Soil Quality for the Urban Food Grower
6/4/16	NCAT	Small Ruminants & Hogs
6/5/16	UCB	On-Farm Food Safety Workshop
6/11/16	UCB	Soil Sampling, Risk Mapping and Exposure Prevention for the Urban Grower
6/13/16	NCAT	Business Plans
6/16/16	ACRCD	Introduction to Ranching with Wildlife
6/16/16	ACRCD	Introduction to Ranching with Wildlife
6/18/16	UCB	Soil Sampling, Risk Mapping and Exposure Prevention for the Urban Grower
6/20/16	NCAT	Farmers Markets & Farm Stands
6/21/16	NCAT	Compost Dinner
6/22/16	NCAT	Pest/Beneficial ID
6/25/16	UCB	Advanced Organic Soils Management
6/25/16	NCAT	Pest/Beneficial ID Part 2
6/26/16	UCB	On-Farm Food Safety Workshop (Learning Hub Retreat)
8/3/16	SAGE	Intro to Bus Planning
8/9/16	SAGE	Business issues in value-added production
8/10/16	SAGE	Intro to Bus Entities
8/11/16	NCAT	Livestock Production
8/24/16	SAGE	Intro to Farm Taxes and Bookkeeping
9/9/16	UCB	CA Farmer Educator Network Summit
9/20/16	NCAT	Cover Crops
9/28/16	NCAT	Farm Business Planning, Class 1
10/5/16	NCAT	Farm Business Planning, Class 2
10/12/16	NCAT	Farm Business Planning, Class 3
10/19/16	NCAT	Farm Business Planning, Class 4
10/26/16	NCAT	Farm Business Planning, Class 5
10/30/16	UCB	Harvest Festival
11/15/16	NCAT	Latino Farmer Conference- Soil Health workshop
11/15/16	NCAT	Latino Farmer Conference- Food Safety and Post Harvest Handling Best Practices
12/6/16	ACRCD	Book Group - Fruitful Labor
12/8/16	SAGE	Tax Workshop
1/22/17	NCAT	Soils and Composting
1/25/17	SAGE	Getting Your Farm Business on the Right Legal & Financial Footing
1/31/17	ACRCD	Olive Oil Producer Group mtg
2/8/17	NCAT	Introduction to Farm Business Planning
2/15/17	UCB	Food Safety Good Agricultural Practices Training
2/23/17	ACRCD	Olive Tree Pruning Field Day
3/1/17	NCAT	Marketing workshop
3/9/17	ACRCD	Farm Tour Field Day & Discussion
3/29/17	NCAT	Marketing workshop
3/30/17	NCAT	Business Planning workshop
5/9/17	NCAT	Direct Marketing workshop
5/11/17	ACRCD	Livestock Production 101
5/11/17	NCAT	Direct Marketing workshop
5/30/17	NCAT	IPM Part 1
5/31/17	SAGE	Cottage Food Session
6/8/17	UCB	"ANR Workshop" Rob Bennaton
6/21/17	NCAT	IPM - Workshop
6/24/17	NCAT	IPM - Field Day
6/29/17	ACRCD	Grazing 101: Getting the Lease
8/8/17	NCAT	IPM Part 2
9/12/17	UCB	Food safety workshop for Chinese Growers
10/29/17	UCB	CA Small Farm Conference: Scholarship Recipients' 1.5 hours of workshops
10/29/17	NCAT	Field Course: Conservation that Works
10/29/17	UCB	Short Course: Cottage Food
11/4/17	UCB	Soils 2+
11/4/17	UCB	Soils 1
11/8/17	ACRCD	Farming Efficiently Series: Crop Planning
11/10/17	UCB	Soils 1-3 & Poultry RM
11/16/17	UCB	Soils 1-3 & Poultry RM
11/18/17	UCB	Soils 1-2
11/18/17	UCB	Soils 1
11/19/17	UCB	Soils 2
11/20/17	ACRCD	Farming Efficiently Series: Weed Management
11/30/17	UCB	Food Safety
12/1/17	UCB	Improving Soil Quality for Urban Grower
12/2/17	UCB	Soil Sampling, Risk Mapping and Exposure Prevention for the Urban Grower
12/12/17	UCB	Improving Soil Quality for Urban Grower
12/14/17	UCB	Edible Landscaping
12/14/17	UCB	Soil Sampling, Risk Mapping and Exposure Prevention for the Urban Grower