RENSSELAERVILLE, N.Y. — Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program, announces their upcoming Second Annual Cut Flower Conference. This event is of interest to cut flower growers in the Capital Area. The initial Cut Flower Conference, held in 2016, was very popular with established and beginning cut flower growers and growers considering adding cut flowers to their diversified farms.
This year’s Cut Flower Conference will be held at The Carey Institute Guggenheim Pavilion, 100 Pond Hill Road, Rensselaerville, NY, December 1, 2017, beginning at 8:00 am and ending at 4:00 pm. Lunch at the Carriage House Restaurant is included in the $45.00 per person admission price.
Online registration is available at https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/cutflower2_201. For questions regarding registration, please contact Tove Ford, cce-caahp@cornell.edu or (518)765-3518. For questions about the conference, or if you wish to become an exhibitor at the Cut Flower Conference, please contact Lily Calderwood, PhD, lbc75@cornell.edu or (518)765-3513.
Agenda for the Second Annual Cut Flower Conference
8:00 – 8:30 Registration @ Guggenheim Pavilion, Carey Institute
8:45 – 9:30 Carolyn Snell, Cut Flowers on Snell Family Farm, Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, Northeast Regional Director located in Buxton, Maine
9:30 – 10:15 Judson Reid, High Tunnel Nutrient Management, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Coffee Break- Please visit the exhibitors! (25 mins)
10:40 – 11:40 Chris Wien and Friends, Dahlia Production, Cornell University, Professor Emeritus and Farm TBD
Visit exhibitors and walk over to lunch (20 mins)
12:00 Lunch @ Carriage House Restaurant
1:00 – 1:45 Bryan Brown, Weed Management on Small Farms, Weed Specialist, NYS IPM
1:45 – 2:30 Lily Calderwood, Lavender and Mint SARE Research Update, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Break- Please visit the exhibitors! (15 mins)
2:45 – 4:00 Farmer to Farmer Panel Discussion – Geared toward beginners, 5 cut flower growers will discuss production, post-harvest, and marketing challenges as well as success stories.
—Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County
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