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Anyone with a small farm, just starting out or just getting
interested in farming can find information on a dozen subjects in
a free workshop presented by Team
Agriculture Georgia Nov. 8 at Albany State
University.
TAG’s mission is to improve state and federal customer service to
all landowners, land users and limited-resource and beginning
farmers. Members include Georgia farm agencies and partnering
organizations.
The Nov. 8 workshop will feature sessions on:
- Alternative farm enterprises.
- Aquaculture.
- Crop insurance.
- Financing small farms.
- Fruits.
- Vegetables.
- Goats and small livestock.
- Irrigation and water management.
- Labor.
- Local marketing and community-based agriculture.
- Pond construction and management opportunities.
- Taxes.
Free Lunch, Too
The workshop includes resource materials and lunch. Sessions will
start at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Registration will begin at 8
a.m. in the ASU Academic Administration Building.
Registration forms will be in upcoming issues of the Georgia
Market Bulletin as well as at USDA service centers, Farm Service
Agency county offices and University of Georgia Extension Service
county offices.
To sign up, call Connie McEver at (706) 546-2236. Or fax her a
registration form at (706) 546-2416. The preregistration deadline
is Oct. 19. Walk-ins are welcome, but seats and lunch are limited
to about 200.
Farm-related groups and agencies will have displays at the
workshop. A similar event is planned for the Gainesville, Ga.,
area next year.
