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Conservation Practices for Better Food Production: A Talk & Tour at CCUA
$0.00
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | 1769 W Ash St, Columbia, MO 65203
Join MOA for a tour through regenerative practices that help organic and non organic vegetable farms alike!
Learn to build soil health, address resource concerns and manage pests with cover crops, low-till permanent beds, intercropping, soil test informed mineral-balancing amendments and more. Tony Minnick will share both challenges and success using these techniques in relation to the 26+ vegetable types they produce through the Planting for the Pantry program. Susan Jaster will add insight and alternative methods from AgrAbility during the tour, as well as demonstrate on farm methods to assess regenerative impact on your crops.
1 PM: Check-in Table with MOA Materials & Elderberry Lemonade at Outdoor Shaded Pavilion
approx. 1:15 pm Tour Starts
2:15 pm: Susan Jaster demonstrates low tech tools for on farm assessment of regenerative practices at Shaded Outdoor Pavilion
2:45 pm: MOA Closing Remarks and Program Updates
3 pm: Event Ends
No fee required thanks to support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under agreement number NR196424XXXXG005.
Tony Minnick, CCUA Farm Manager
Susan Jaster of the Innovative Small Farmers Outreach Program at LU Extension & AgrAbility
Susan Jaster began a career in dairy farming in the early eighties in Arizona on a large commercial dairy. She continued dairy farming in Missouri on the 150-cow dairy she co-owned with her family. She was also a radio broadcaster and farm news reporter for a small radio station in southwest Missouri during her dairy career. Susan and her family participated in the 4-H program for many years, celebrating 25 years of service in 2017. She has always had a garden and cared for many livestock species throughout her life. In 2010, she began raising American Blackbelly sheep and practicing adaptive grazing techniques for soil health and water quality conservation.
Jaster has been assisting farmers and ranchers in West Central Missouri with practical, biological, resilient solutions to agricultural issues and product marketing since 2009 for Lincoln University Cooperative Extension Innovative Small Farmers’ Outreach Program and Missouri AgrAbility Project, in Lafayette, Johnson, and Ray Counties.
Reserve Your Seat
Venue: Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture at Clary-Shy Community Park
1769 W Ash St, Columbia, MO 65203
Event Details
1 PM: Check-in Table with MOA Materials & Elderberry Lemonade at Outdoor Shaded Pavilion
approx. 1:15 pm Tour Starts
2:15 pm: Susan Jaster demonstrates low tech tools for on farm assessment of regenerative practices at Shaded Outdoor Pavilion
2:45 pm: MOA Closing Remarks and Program Updates
3 pm: Event Ends
Date: September 25, 2024
Start time: 01:00 p.m. CST
End time: 03:00 p.m. CST
Venue: Clary-Shy Community Park 1769 W Ash St, Columbia, MO 65203
Coordinates: 38.960935481432344, -92.36512899789943
Phone: (573) 260-2691
Email: info@moaorganic.org