Join The Land Connection and Zumwalt Acres on September 19th for a full-day event of skill sharing, relationship building, a morning tour of Zumwalt’s climate-smart farming practices with an emphasis on their work with basalt, and an afternoon facilitated discussion on climate change and farming!
Upcoming
Creative Farmland Access Through Self-Directed IRAs
With land access being one of the top challenges across the U.S., farmers need creative ideas to access affordable, secure, and long-term land arrangements. Retirement investors have the potential to help! With the help of Mary Gelder (investor) and Wyatt Muse (organic farmer), we’ll explore a creative investment tool that allows you to generate retirement income while also making land available to farmers.
Cover Crop Conversations at Hoffman Organic Farm
Join us, OGRAIN, Paul Hoffman, and IDEA Farm Network at Hoffman Organic Farm. We’ll focus on Paul’s organic field crops, but this family farm has much more to offer including organic vegetables and grass-fed lamb and beef. Our cover crop conversations will include frost seeded red clover post wheat harvest and cash cover cropping for […]
2025 Organic Grain Conference
2025 Organic Grain Conference & Trade Show is scheduled for February 5-6, 2025 at the i-Hotel in Champaign, IL. Event details coming soon. Call for proposals is open now through July 15th!
Champaign Farmers Market
The 2024 season of the Champaign Farmers Market will take place every Tuesday from May 14 through October 29, from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m., in the parking lot at Neil & Washington in downtown Champaign. Vendors offer meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, fruit, microgreens, baked goods, bread, desserts, flowers, and herbal products, dog treats, and more!
2024 Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day
Purdue University’s MEIGS Horticultural Research Farm in Lafeyette, Indiana will be the host site for the 2024 Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day (MMWCFD). MMWCFD connects farmers, machinery manufacturers, and the allied trades for a single day event that draws farmers from all over the Midwest.