16th Annual West Virginia Small Farm Conference
See https://extension.wvu.edu/conferences/small-farm-conference. Unlock the potential of West Virginia small farms to produce food profitably. Help small farms transition from commodity production to food production for community and local consumption. Support West Virginia’s 22,000 small farm families by: Providing reliable, tested knowledge about current trends, needed skills, and latest production and...
Mountain State Maple Days (#1)
Visit sugarhouses and nearby businesses to experience pure WV maple syrup production and use. More information will be provided as the time gets closer, but put this on your calendar! It will be fun!
Mountain State Maple Days (#2)
UPDATE: Because of the Coronavirus, much of our event has been canceled. See this map for the latest. More important, the advice from our state and federal government is to stay home. But if you must get out, call before going to any of these places, because this situation is...
Future Generations Webinar: Accessing New Markets in this Time of Uncertainty
See https://www.future.edu/maple-webinar for on-line training for Maple Syrup production, June 17 and 18,. Sap runs, pandemic or no! Contact Karen Milnes karen.milnes@future.edu or 304-358-2000) for more information.
Virginia Tree Syrup Program Web-based Presentation
The Virginia Tree Syrup Program is pleased to present workshops again this fall. The first will be a web-based program: “Current research on optimized tapping guidelines and the impacts of tapping on trees.” Thursday September 10th @ 7 PM A summary of recent and ongoing research conducted by the University...
Cancelled – The Second Southern Syrup Research Symposium
FYI: The second Southern Syrup Research Symposium has been cancelled. Our speakers could not guarantee that their organizations would let them travel this October. The plan is to see where things are in a year.
WVMSPA Annual Meeting
Jackson's Mill 160 Jackson Mill Rd, Weston, WV, United States9am: Registration 9:30am: Welcome 9:40am: Syrup Season Discussion 11am: Updates 12pm-1pm: Lunch - TBD 1pm: Business Meeting and Other Issues
WVMSPA September Zoom Meeting
West Virginia Maple Syrup Producers Association September zoom Meeting Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93771377898 September 7, 2021 7pm – 8:30pm Opening remarks – President: Paul Ronk Minutes from Previous meeting (5/22/21) - Secretary: Tina Barton Treasurer’s Report - Treasurer: Keith Heasely 2021 Fair report by Brandon Daniels. Mobile Sugar Shack at...
Webinar – Agroforestry via Future Generations University
Looking beyond syrup: John Munsell, who runs the Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition will speak.