Clara Hall, Loan Officer in White River Jct., attended the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association Annual Meeting held at the Capital Plaza in Montpelier on January 28, 2013. In 2012 there were just over 270 members throughout the state and there seemed to be good attendance from the group at this annual meeting.
There was a full day of interesting presentations from:
• Andy Jones, Intervale Community Farm in Burlington
• Vern Grubinger, UVM Extension
• Christa Alexander, Jericho Settlers Farm in Jericho
• Yolanda Chen, UVM Plant and Soil Science
• Chris Callahan, UVM Extension Agricultural Engineer
• Richard Cowles, CT Agricultural Experiment Station
• Chuck Ross, VT Secretary of Agriculture
• Jon Satz, Brandon
• Ann Hazelrigg, UVM Plant Diagnostic Lab
• Jon Turmel, Entomologist
• Howard Prussack, High Meadows Farm in Westminster West
Topics ranged from Tunnels, low and high, to the Spotted Wing Drosophila to storing crops to marketing strawberries to various diseases to on-farm-trials.
