Vegetables

Sessions are organized by date below. To learn more about a specific session, click on the session title.

The sessions on February 25, 26 and 27 qualify for RUP and CCA credits. For specific credit information, click on the session title.

Recordings from previous year's presentations are organized below. To watch the video of a specific session, click on the video image.

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Session Recordings

  • Planning for Climate Change on your Farm

    Published on February 28, 2025

    Think through climate-related risks on your farm and learn how to make a plan to prepare for heavy rains, wind, drought, heat or floods. CCA credits offered.

  • Starting with Direct Sales

    Published on February 28, 2025

    In this presentation, Mariel Borgman will invite growers to consider various direct to consumer sales options through the lenses of skills, resources, and farm goals

  • Roots - Potatoes

    Published on February 27, 2025

    In this “grounded” session, Nicolle Ritchie and Chris Galbraith will dig up some sage advice on going from seed tuber to feed tuber.

  • Farmer Experience Growing Vegetables Under and Between Solar Arrays

    Published on February 26, 2025

    Hear directly from a farmer with experience growing vegetable crops under the solar array, in the inter-row spacing, and on the fence line of the array.

  • How Can Loans Help Your Farm Business Grow?

    Published on February 26, 2025

    What benefits do loans really provide my farm business? How do I begin preparing to apply for a loan? What is a lender looking for when they review my loan request? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this session.

  • Shoots - Asparagus and Rhubarb

    Published on February 26, 2025

    In this “spring-ahead” session, the Bens will snap in to the best ways to grow these two spring-harvested perennial vegetables.

  • MSU Agrability Program

    Published on February 25, 2025

    Learn more about the Michigan AgrAbility Project. This statewide program helps farmers with a disability or injury continue farming.

  • Froots - Pumpkins, Squash, Melons, Cucumbers

    Published on February 25, 2025

    In this session, Salta Mambetova and Ben Phillips will cut into the production methods for pumpkins and squash, as well as melons and cucumbers.

  • How to Protect Your Operation

    Published on February 24, 2025

    Learn how to identify and manage financial risks within your organization while reviewing robust cybersecurity measures to protect operations.

  • Getting Going - Lessons Learned in First Three Years of Community Gardening

    Published on February 24, 2025

    In this session, two community organizers will share their experiences leading grant-funded projects to develop gardening skills in their communities.

  • Becoming an Insect Investigator

    Published on March 1, 2024

    You can sleuth out what’s eating your vegetables by gathering evidence at the “scene of the crime,” using the same evidence-based approach. It’s not only fun, it also will help you protect your vegetables from future issues.

  • The World Under Our Feet: Biological Soil Health in Vegetable Production

    Published on February 29, 2024

    Organic matter plays a critical role in soil health. Learn about how the interactions between organic and plant matter influences soil biological health and in turn successful crop production.

  • What's Wrong with my Vegetables

    Published on February 28, 2024

    This presentation will cover abiotic and biotic abnormalities in vegetables. The goal of this presentation is to give specific examples of vegetable abnormalities that will help identify what is wrong with your vegetable.

  • Farm Budgets: Growing Your Farm into a Business (2024)

    Published on February 28, 2024

    How important is a business mindset and farm profits to your opportunities for growth and success? Join as we discuss how attention to details and effective planning can help your farm continue its growth into a successful business.

  • What Do Plants Crave?

    Published on February 27, 2024

    What Do Plants Crave?

  • Pollinator stewardship for farmers, growers, and gardeners

    Published on February 26, 2024

    Farmers are well positioned to support bee health and may even on bee pollination for their crops. Learn programs and practices that support pollinator health by judiciously using pesticides and establishing pollinator habitat.

  • Beyond the Farmers Market: Evaluating Direct Market Channel Opportunities

    Published on February 23, 2024

    Where are you selling, or planning to sell your products? How do you make these decisions? We’ll talk about perceptions, realities, pros and cons of farmers markets, farm markets, CSAs, restaurant sales, institutional markets and more!

  • Enterprise Budgeting for Beginning Farm Decision-makers

    Published on February 21, 2024

    Further develop management skills in agriculture production systems by focusing on enterprise budgets and cost of production, including cost of production, economic profit, and understanding enterprise budgets in production agriculture.

  • Brainstorming farm goals… & how to make them happen!

    Published on February 21, 2024

    Join this interactive workshop to brainstorm goals for your farm, evaluate those goals as SMART goals and/or HEART goals, and think through how to make your goals into a timeline, vision board or reminder to inspire you every day to follow your intention.

  • Beginning Vegetables

    Published on February 19, 2024

    Vegetables are easy to try as a new grower, or as a new crop among other enterprises. Learn the types of vegetables to consider for different markets and some techniques for their production at smaller scales.