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May 2015
CANCELED: Northeastern NY Vineyard Workshop 2 - Vineyard Pest Management, Champlain Valley
May 6, 2015
Willsboro, NY
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
This workshop will cover essential vineyard pest management practices. We will cover major vineyard pests, IPM strategies, and resources available to help guide you. Andrew Landers, pesticide application technology specialist from Cornell, will provide information about effective pesticide application, including sprayer calibration. Bring your sprayer if you'd like to learn how to calibrate your own equipment.Northeastern NY Vineyard Workshop 2 - Vineyard Pest Management, Upper Hudson Valley
May 7, 2015
4:30 - 7:00 PM
Schaghticoke, NY
This workshop will cover essential vineyard pest management practices. We will cover major vineyard pests, IPM strategies, and resources available to help guide you. Andrew Landers, pesticide application technology specialist from Cornell, will provide information about effective pesticide application, including sprayer calibration. Bring your sprayer if you'd like to learn how to calibrate your own equipment.
RESCHEDULED: Vineyard Pest Management, Champlain Valley - WEBINAR
May 13, 2015
Plattsburgh, NY
THIS EVENT IS RESCHEDULED (original date: Wednesday 5/6)
This webinar will cover essential vineyard pest management practices. Wayne Wilcox will cover major vineyard pests, IPM strategies, and resources available to help guide you. Andrew Landers will provide information about effective pesticide application, including sprayer calibration. The webinar will also be available remotely!
CANCELED - Northeastern NY Vineyard Workshop 3 - Site Evaluation and Establishment, Champlain Valley
May 16, 2015
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Essex, NY
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELED
This workshop will cover the basic considerations for selecting a site for your future vineyard and how to establish a new planting. Jay White of Essex, NY and Mike Spiak of The Fossil Stone Vineyard will describe their experiences selecting property, preparing land, and planning their vineyards. The Champlain Valley location will include a hands-on planting workshop.
Northeastern NY Vineyard Workshop 4 - Business Management, Upper Hudson Valley
May 20, 2015
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Saratoga County, NY
This workshop will cover the basics of business management for vineyards and wineries. Bob Weybright, CCE business and marketing specialist, will provide business planning guidance for establishing a vineyard. He will also discuss considerations for obtaining a winery license and marketing your wine. Sarah Johnston will provide information on risk management, and how to obtain insurance for your valuable investment.
Northeastern NY Vineyard Workshop 4 - Business Management, Champlain Valley
May 27, 2015
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Plattsburgh, NY
This workshop will cover the basics of business management for vineyards and wineries. Bob Weybright, CCE business and marketing specialist, will provide business planning guidance for establishing a vineyard. He will also discuss considerations for obtaining a winery license and marketing your wine. Sarah Johnston will provide information on risk management, and how to obtain insurance for your valuable investment.
Produce Wash Station Set up **CANCELLED**
May 27, 2015
10:30 am-1 pm
Palatine Bridge, NY, NY
**THIS PROGRAM IS BEING RESCHEDULED. A NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED.**Join the Cornell Vegetable Program's Robert Hadad to learn how to design, build, and operate a small-scale, DIY post-harvest handling system! This great workshop will focus on the trifecta of good washing and handling—food safety, maintaining high quality and efficiency, and affordability for new and small growers. The session starts with a discussion and hands-on demonstration of how to design and set-up your wash line, tables, and packing shed, with a focus on safe and efficient product flow to separate 'dirty' field harvested produce from the washed and “clean” final product. Next, we'll look at setting up standard operating practices covering a range of methods of washing produce, including dunking, spraying, and aerating, as well as the why and how of using organic sanitizers. This session finishes with an examination of clean-up procedures and post-harvest handling considerations, including re-cooling, packing, and storage. If you want to build or upgrade your wash lines and post-harvest handling techniques and produce a safer, longer storing product, this workshop is for you!
June 2015
2015 Champlain Summer Orchard Tour
June 30, 2015
9:30am - 4:00pm
Cornell Cooperative Extension and the UVM Apple Program invites area growers to join us on a tour of orchards in the southern Champlain Valley of Vermont and New York. Pack a lunch and join the caravan as we share ideas with our hosts and each other.
July 2015
Grapevine Canopy Management Workshop

July 7, 2015
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Wallkill, NY
Come join Jim O'Connell berry and grape educator for Cornell Cooperative Eastern New York Commerical Horticulture Program and Ulster County, with guest speaker Hans Walter-Peterson of the Finger Lakes Grape Program for a twilight meeting at Magnanini Far Winery in Wallkill. Hans will discuss the basics of vine canopy management and its importance in pest management and fruit load.
CANCELLED 2-Day GAPs Training in Peru
July 20 - July 21, 2015
Monday 8:30AM - 5:00PM, Tuesday 8:30AM - 3:00PM
Peru, NY
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
This two-day training will walk growers through the basics of food safety during day one and will help them write a food safety plan during day two.
This training course will result in receiving the certificate which satisfies the training requirement for the FSMA Produce Safety Rule.
Blueberry Variety Review Field Day
July 21, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Schuylerville, NY

Byron Winney has one of the largest plantings of blueberries in the state. Look at and taste more than a dozen different varieties and learn about winter hardiness, plant form, fruiting characteristics, plant longevity and pest tolerance first hand. There is no charge for this workshop, but please help us plan and register by calling Marcie at 518-272-4210. If you have questions, give Laura a call at 518-791-5038. The workshop is a rain or shine event.
The First Annual Eastern NY Equipment Demonstration Day
July 25, 2015
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Rain or Shine)
Hurley, NY
Come and see some of the most innovative cultivation tools being produced by the world's leading manufacturers in action on a variety of vegetables and field crops!
This is a great opportunity to see new cultivating technologies at work and learn
more about the tools these companies offer. Find out if these tools are right for your
operation before you purchase them. Not only will we be looking at these units for
vegetables, but also field corn and soybeans- so there is something for everyone.
This is a great opportunity to see new cultivating technologies at work and learn
more about the tools these companies offer. Find out if these tools are right for your
operation before you purchase them. Not only will we be looking at these units for
vegetables, but also field corn and soybeans- so there is something for everyone.
Wash Station and Food Safety Workshop
July 27, 2015
10am - 2:00pm
Palatine Bridge, NY

Please come join the Eastern New York Commercial Vegetable Program and Robert Hadad from the Cornell Vegetable Program to learn about the process of designing, building, and operating a small-scale, post-harvest handling system.

