Carrot River Organic Field Day

About:

Join TCO Chapter 3, SaskOrganics and ER Lefebvre Farm Ltd. in an organic field day and facility tour in Carrot River!

Itinerary:

*All times listed in CST (SK Time).

*Attendees are encouraged to carpool with other attendees once at the farmsite.

*While we do our best to bring you the program as advertised, itinerary is subject to change.

• 10:00-10:30am: Registration and networking, River’s Edge Seeds, 167 Birch Rd, Carrot River
• 10:30-11:30am– River’s Edge Facility Tour: Organic Hempseed Cleaning
• Drive to ER Lefevbre Farm
• 11:50am-12:50pm-Lunch: Provided by Prairie Angel Bakery
• Drive to Intermediate Wheatgrass field
• 1:00-1:30pm-Intermediate Wheatgrass Background-Dr. Doug Cattani, University of Manitoba
• 1:30-2:00pm-ADOPT Project-Intermediate Wheatgrass-Jo-Anne Relf-Eckstein, Saskatchewan Forage Seed Development Commission
• Drive back first clover field
• 2:10-2:30pm-Red Clover Field-Evan Lefevbre
• Drive to second clover field
• 2:40-3:00pm: Red Clover Field-2-Evan Lefevbre
• 3:00-3:30pm: Common clover pests, organic management options-Jeremy Irvine, College of Grad Studies, University of Saskatchewan
• Drive to next field
• 3:40-4:10pm: Inter-row cultivator demo/talk
• 4:10-4:40pm: Production of HumaTerra H-start pellets, Ian Bromm
• 4:40-5:00pm: Refreshments & Networking
• 5:00pm: Conclusion

Guest Speakers:

• Dr. Doug Cattani, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba
• Jo-Anne Relf-Eckstein, Executive Director, Saskatchewan Forage Seed Development Commission
• Jeremy Irvine: Graduate student, University of Saskatchewan
• Ian Bromm: HumaTerra

Tickets: $33.25 + GST (general admission, lunch, refreshments)

Registration

* Registering before 9am on July 16 is greatly appreciated for catering purposes, however we will accept walk-up registrations.

*No refunds. Tickets can be transferred to other guests if notified in advance.

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Thanks to our Lunch sponsors

Thanks to our Gold sponsors

Funded in part by the Government of Canada under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.

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