Offsite tour, Friday, March 10, 2:30-3:20pm
Low Till Techniques on a Small Market Farm
A Tour of Guidestone’s Community & School Farm
Join Guidestone’s Monica Pless, Education & Agritourism Director, and Emma Lietz Bilecky, Farm to School Director for a tour of low-till techniques on the Community & School Farm, including occultation with silage tarps, cover crop mixes, a discussion / demo of low till equipment like a flame weeder and flail mower, in-bed composting and discussion of challenges and next steps.
The Friday afternoon low-till farm tour at Guidestone’s Community & School Farm is supported by the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA or CDA.