Upcoming Events & Opportunities

Please see below for links to lots of great events and opportunities! 

Cal Poly
1. CAFES Connections: Fall Career Networking Event: 11/16
2. Poinsettia and Holiday Sale, Poly Plant Shop: 12/2
3. Cal Poly Fuels and Vegetation Education Program
      * Using the CalVTP: New Implementation Tools and Lessons Learned webinar: 12/7
      * Forest Health Grants and Forest Practice Documents webinar: 12/12      
4, Cal Poly Student-made Cheese Gift Boxes

San Luis Obispo & Central Coast
5. Vineyard Team Sustainable Ag Expo, SLO: 11/14-15
6. Composting Workshop, Rodale Institute, Camarillo: 11/17
7. Organic Grower Summit, Monterey: 11/29-30 
8. ‘Buy Local’ Food System Innovations and Challenges, SLO Food System Coalition: 12/5
9. EcoFarm Conference, Pacific Grove: 1/17-20

California & the West
10. FREP/WPH Nutrient Management Conference, Modesto: 11/8-9
11. Wild Farm Alliance Field Days, Aptos & Royal Oaks: 11/10 & 11/15
12. California State Beekeepers Association Annual Convention, Costa Mesa: 11/14-16
13. UC Climate Smart Practices for Fruit and Nut Production Workshop, Tulare: 11/29
14. Intertribal Agriculture Council Annual Conference, Las Vegas NV: 12/12-14  

Virtual & Hybrid
15. ASA Biochar and Manure Amendments on Cover Crops to Improve Soil Health: 11/7
16. OFRF Farmers are researchers: Conducting your own on-farm research: 11/8
17. UC Ag Experts Talk: Branched Broomrape: A Parasitic Weed Threat to the Tomato Industry: 11/8  
18. Rodale Institute webinars: Impact of Soil Management on Soil Health and Vegetables: 11/8
19. CA Native Grasslands Association (CNGA) GRASS Award Speaker Series:
       Jacob Weverka (UCSB) 11/14 & Annie Meeder (Cal Poly SLO / U. Colorado Boulder) 12/5  
20. Agritourism Intensive, UC-SAREP: 1/24-2/28 [Register by 11/26]  
21. UC Nitrogen Planning and Management in Organic Annual Crops: 11/27, 12/4,11,18
22. CA Bioresource Alliance Symposium: Developing the Circular Bioresources Economy: 11/28
23. eOrganic Adapting and Expanding High Tunnel Organic Vegetable Production: 11/30
24. Vineyard Team Sustainable Winegrowing Education On-Demand: Free through 11/30
25. OFAC Sustainable Pest Management and Production CE webinar: 12/7

Opportunities
26. Small Farm Innovation Challenge: apply by 11/15
27. LEED Green Associate Training: Live webinars 11/18, 12/16, 1/13 or On-Demand
      [Discount code ‘green’]
28. Western SARE Graduate Student Grant deadline: 12/7
29. UC SAREP Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Small Grant Program: due 1/9

 

Please send questions, comments, and event announcements to:  cfs@calpoly.edu