Thu 7/31 @ 10:30am-noon
Huron County, just an hour’s drive west of downtown Cleveland, is one of Ohio’s agricultural centers, with a climate and soil well suited for growing. Willard, at the county’s southwestern tip, is a little farther away.
But it’s worth the drive for people who are getting serious about their vegetable growing, especially market gardeners, to attend the annual Muck Crops Field Day, sponsored by the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and Ohio State University Extension at the Muck Crops Agricultural Research Station there.
“Muck crops” refers to those grown in muck soil, a distinctive type of soil, heavy in organic materials, found in Huron County. As rich as that soil is, it also encourages weed growth, as well as certain types of pests and diseases. The center researches methods of dealing with these problems with a minimum amount of chemicals.
(Learn more about the work of the Muck Crops Agricultural Research Station here.)
The Field Day workshop shares some of the results of their research with growers.
It will cover such topics as vegetable disease management, pest scouting, IR-4 trials (testing for pesticide residue), and how to deal with “herbicide drift,” unwanted chemicals coming from nearby growing areas.
The hour-and-a-half workshop is free and open to the public. For more information, contact station manager Robert Filbrun at filbrun.12@osu.edu or 419-935-1201, or go here.
extension.osu.edu/muck-crops-field-day-is-july-31
Photo of Huron County’s Mulberry Creek Herb Farm by Anastasia Pantsios