Calendar
Organizations in Baja Arizona are welcome to list their local food and sustainable agriculture workshops, events and celebrations here. Send information to Calender Listings.
2010 Calendar of Events
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Know Your Soils Workshop Part I - Cochise County
February 16 - Palominas Fire Station Training Center, Hereford
February 17 Double Adobe School, McNeal
9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. First in a series of five workshops. Focus will be to learn about the physical, chemical and biological factors of your soil. Please bring a soil sample from your land, at least 2 cups in a quart size paper lunch bag (not plastic.) A hands-on use of a Soil Test Kit will give results. $15 per person or $25 per couple. Includes a catered lunch and presentations by NRCS Soil Scientist Bill Johnson and U of A Extension Soil Specialist Jim Walworth. Workshop is sponsored by Coronado RC&D, U of A Extension, Hereford NRCD and Whitewater Draw NRCD. RSVP Kim Webb at 520.384.2229 X 124 or kim.webb@rcdnet.net by Feb. 11.
February 19 & 20 - New Mexico Organic Farming Conference – Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Southwest’s Premier Conference for Organic Agriculture by Farm to Table, New Mexico Dept. of Agriculture, New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission and New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service. Thirty sessions by experts in soil health, organic poultry and beef production, goat and cattle dairies, Bee’s Needs, fruit and vegetable production including organic pest and disease control, pruning, composting, water harvesting, CSA, crop rotation, heirlooms, seed saving, vermiculture, medicinal herbs, GMO contamination, food safety, value-added products and marketing to retailers and restaurants. Cost is $100 for two days registration including Saturday lunch and snacks. Invited keynote speaker is Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. Call Le at 505-473-1004 X10 ladams@cybermesa.com, www.farmtotablenm.org or Joanie at 505-841-9067 for questions and registration. Held at Marriott Albuquerque Pyramid North, 5151 San Francisco Road, NE. 7:30 to 5 p.m. both days. Room reservations at The Marriott Pyramid at 800-262-2010 with special rate as part of conference.
March 7 – Organic Garden Festival by Tucson Organic Gardeners, Tucson
10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at community gardens at St. Mark’s Presbyterian Church, 3809 E. 2nd Street near Speedway and Alvernon. This free event includes plant and bake sales, food and beverage sales, music, games for children and relevant demonstrations. The Tucson Organic Gardeners are currently accepting applications from organic local food and beverage vendors, earth friendly vendors and volunteers. Please contact Lynne East-Itkin at (520) 889-9910 or events@tucsonorganicgardeners.org
April 10 - Green Streets and Neighborhoods Festival and Fundraiser, Tucson
Tucson-based nonprofit Watershed Management Group and the Rincon Heights Neighborhood Association are hosting a block party and cookout from 3pm - 7 pm to celebrate and share their successful model program installing "green infrastructure" in the neighborhood. Green infrastructure is vegetated infrastructure that uses natural processes to provide services like flood and pollution reduction, traffic calming, wildlife habitat and neighborhood beautification. The event, which is also a fundraiser to assist Watershed Management Group's work to green neighborhoods, will feature neighborhood tours of green infrastructure practices, educational demonstrations, live music, and home-cooked barbecue in a block-party atmosphere. More details to be announced; for more information visit watershedmg.org or call 520-396-3266
April 17 – Earth Day Celebration at Sierra Vista Farmers Market
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. NW corner of Wilcox and Carmichael in Sierra Vista. Includes 50 non profit, farmers market and handmade craft vendors, live music all day with Cochise County Youth Orchestra and lots of old time fiddle music, Gray Hawk Nature Center (pet a non-venomous snake and learn how to live with rattlesnakes and other local creepy crawlers), solar cook
ing demonstration and BASA information booth (solar ovens, solar cookbooks for sale), rain water harvesting and sale of rain barrels, native landscaping plants, plant starts and seeds for the garden, local hiking, biking, recycling, gardening and star gazing opportunities with grass-fed steer burgers and BBQ, vegetarian food, baked goods and treats. Call Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture at 520.378.2973 for more information.
April 24 – Bisbee’s Earth Day Celebration & Opening of the Bisbee Farmers Market
Join us from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Vista Park, Bisbee for fresh spring produce, grass-fed meats, farm-fresh eggs, honey, pickles, jams, and plants galore for landscaping or starting a garden; information on solar ovens, solar cookbooks for sale; information on water harvesting and recycling; handmade arts and crafts and flea market items; live music all day by Market favorites, dancing and drumming; activities for kids; coffee and baked goods; Mexican food for breakfast and lunch. Don't miss the fun! For more information contact Laura Smith, market manager at laura.haba@gmail.com or go to www.bisbeefarmersmarket.org
