Join us for a hands-on activity filled workshop exploring mushrooms as medicine for personal and community health. Read more and register here.  

Today, a significant portion of livestock, poultry and other crops are being raised under production contracts. But production contracts can be complicated and confusing. This webinar will help farmers, advocates and law students understand production contracts for contract growing: the benefits, the risks, and the legal considerations. Register here. Hosted by Drake University Law School & the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Union of Concerned Scientists is offering a webinar on how diverse crop rotation systems can achieve environmental gains without sacrificing yields and profits. Learn more about their newly published report, Rotating Crops, Turning Profits, and register here.

Join Sprouting Farms in celebrating their hard work and the exciting things to come. Take a farm tour, meet the staff, farmers and board, and join in garden hose cutting. For more information and directions to the farm site call 304-445-7200 or email [email protected]. RSVP for the event here.

Bring your current business and/or business idea and work on business planning, legal structures of business, overview marketing strategies, (product, pricing, placement, promotion), What does cash flow projection look like? Get connected to resources, coaches and other folks who can help you out. The event is co-sponsored by the Good Jobs Fund, WV Healthy Kids and Families Coalition, Strong Mountain Communities and KISRA. Contact Patricia Scott, [email protected] to register.

This 3-day symposium will provide a forum to bring together a diverse array of stakeholders involved in the management and regulation of forest botanicals in Appalachia, including federal and state agencies, tribal representatives, academics, landowners, collectors, and the herbal products industry. Register here. 

The University of Vermont offers this 3-day, on-campus workshop that applies John Dewey's philosophy into our kitchen lab, as a way to emphasize experiential education, as an important pedagogical approach for teaching any subject. Learn more and register here.

A PDC course offers a comprehensive intro to Permaculture principles, applications & design practices and meets the international standard as the 72+ hour foundational course for practitioners and teachers. Come learn with Wayne Weiseman, long-time Permaculture designer, teacher and co-author of Integrated Forest Gardening. This unique course will be held in the hills of Paris, VA a spot rich in history and surrounded by biologically dense ecosystems within the Shenandoah and Blue Ridge Mountains. Learn more here.

Listen to the recorded webinar to hear from FRAC, the National Rural Education Association and AASA, and the School Superintendents Association to learn more about the benefits of community eligibility and how to implement it from rural school administrators. Listen here.