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    Season Extension Activities in Kansas: Legal Issues and Local Policy Options

    ByKimberly Oxley

    The climate in Kansas presents challenges to growing and supplying produce during much of the year. However, season extension activities (SEAs) can help those growing local produce overcome challenges and extend the growing season. Season extension activities range from common agricultural practices, such as selecting cold-weather hearty plants, to sophisticated growing techniques that require infrastructure,…

  • Research

    ByKimberly Oxley

    http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/hightunnels/General content including structures, ‘wind proofing’, growing crops, plasticulture and general production techniques  
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/hightunnel/Help farmers profit from the use of high tunnels to extend their growing season and produce higher quality vegetables, fruit and flowers.    
http://msucares.com/crops/hightunnels/index.htmlWorkshops, suppliers, videos, publications  
http://plasticulture.cas.psu.edu/H-tunnels.htmCrop information, technologies (high tunnels, plastic mulches, drip irrigation, low tunnels, production details High Tunnel…

  • Links

    ByKimberly Oxley

    Below are links to other resources high tunnel related resources.  If you have a link suggestion, please email us at [safe_email]info@hightunnels.org[/safe_email]  https://www.eckman.co.uk/resources/organic-gardening/   http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/beginners-guide-seed-saving   http://www.planetnatural.com/composting-101/

  • Our Bugs in a Jug Webpage – Ohio State University

    ByKimberly Oxley

    Want to know more about crop biostimulants, especially their use in sustainable-organic vegetable production? Growers and others can find out more about these popular but often confusing products. This website is setup as a hub for biostimulant/biofertilizer information, events, and farmer-focused research. Register to participate in call-in conversations with experts, join the biostim/biofert listserv, browse online…

  • Associations

    ByKimberly Oxley

    Below is a list of associations related to high tunnel (hoophouse) construction and production American Society for Plasticulture www.plasticulture.org Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas www.attra.org Growing Growers Training Program www.growinggrowers.org Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project bse.wisc.edu/hfhp High Tunnels Growers Network www.hightunnelnetwork.org Market-Farming.com www.market-farming.com National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service attra.ncat.org Noble Foundation www.noble.org Ohio Ecological…

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    Growing Berry Crops in Protective Structures

    ByKimberly Oxley

    A Resource for High Tunnel Berry Growers Berry growers in the Upper Midwest and Northeast can access information specific to growing berries in tunnels at the TunnelBerries website:  www.TunnelBerries.org.  TunnelBerries is a seven-state research and extension project designed to provide growers with the knowledge needed to expand raspberry, blackberry and strawberry production in the Upper Midwest…