Throughout the year, Future Harvest partners with the Chesapeake region’s leading farmers, researchers, and technical service providers to offer hands-on learning and skills building opportunities, professional development opportunities, and exposure to the latest research and trends in agriculture. Our programs follow a farmer-to-farmer learning model and are conducted through a variety of formats: field tours, hands-on days, intensives, panel discussions, and webinars. All experience levels are welcome to engage in our on-farm events, webinars, and workshops.
We cover a long and ever-changing list of topic areas, including but not limited to:
- Sustainable fruit and vegetable production
- Sustainable livestock production
- Business planning for farms and foodpreneurs
- Land access and food sovereignty
- Food Safety
- And specialty crop production: cut flowers, small grains, tree fruit, mushrooms.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Diversify Your Cover Crops: On-Farm Series – Wright’s Farm
Hebron, Maryland + Google Map
These three on-farm field-days will focus on how to get more benefits out of a cover crop. Each event will include a tour of diversified cover crops fields on grain […]
Find out more »Plant Propagation Techniques and Seed Saving with UMES
March 25 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm EDTGrowers will receive hands-on instruction on the different propagation methods and when to use each. Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-propagation-techniques-and-seed-saving-tickets-560754149757?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
Find out more »Planting a Food Forest
March 25 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDTGermantown, Maryland 20874 + Google Map
The orchard or “food forest” will commemorate the tree foods that helped sustain self-liberators on their journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad. It will serve as an educational resource […]
Find out more »Diversify Your Cover Crops: On-Farm Series – Lewis Farm
Greensboro, Maryland + Google Map
These three on-farm field-days will focus on how to get more benefits out of a cover crop. Each event will include a tour of diversified cover crops fields on grain […]
Find out more »Agritourism: How to Fully Utilize Your Land & Resources
April 11 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDTHave you explored ways to bring more customer engagement & revenue to your CSA? Come listen to a few farmers share stories of creative land & resource use with agritourism. […]
Find out more »