High Tunnel Twilight (Spring Mills, PA) (4:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
Penn State Extension offers High Tunnel Twilights across the State
High Tunnels provide a great opportunity to extend the season, protect high value crops,
improve quality, and reduce weed and pest pressure. As a follow up to the High Tunnel School, Penn State Extension’s Vegetable and Small Fruit Team and Women in Ag Network are offering a series of on farm twilights. These twilight meetings will give you a chance to talk with growers and see good practices in action. At each twilight the grower will discuss their experiences with high tunnels and a visiting speaker will share knowledge on a special topic.
To register for individual twilights call the contact for the meeting. There is no cost to attend.
Date: Wed. March 27, 2013
Time: 3-5pm (optional potluck to follow)
Topic: Pest Management
Location: Dauphin County. 1170 Stoney Creek Road, Dauphin, PA 17018
Host: Katie College, Stoney Creek Valley Farm
Co-Sponsor: Women in Ag Network
Register at: http://agsci.psu.edu/wagn
Contact: Patty Neiner
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(814) 865-7031
At Stoney Creek Valley Farm in Dauphin, PA Katie College uses a Rimol Nor'easter hoophouse for
in-ground growing, supporting a winter CSA, selling greens at market, and selling to a local chef. We will focus on pest management at this meeting with the help of IPM specialist Carol Glenister, from IPM Labs. * One category credit.
Date: Wed. April 3, 2013
Time: 4-6pm
Topic: High Tunnel Twilight
Location: Franklin County. 10333 Wayne Highway, Waynesboro, PA 17268
Host: Joe Brubaker
Contact: Steve Bogash (717) 263-9226
Joe Brubaker has been growing tomatoes in high tunnels since before we called them high tunnels. He focuses on highly productive determinant varieties. Recent innovations include using laying chickens to graze cover crops during the winter, computer controlled side curtains and end wall vents, and the use of coal as supplemental heat.
Date: Wed. April 10, 2013
Time: 4-6pm
Topic: Strawberries
Location: Northampton County. 653 Jones Hill Rd, Pen Argyl PA 18072
Host: Brian Fulmer, Juniperdale Farm
Contact: Tianna DuPont (610) 746-1970,
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Family-run farm with field crops and produce stand. Brian and Eva have strawberries, greens and
tomatoes in their new movable tunnel. Kathy
Demchack, Penn State Extension will talk about high tunnel strawberry production.
* One category credit.
Date: Thur. April, 11, 2013.
Time: 2-5pm
Topic: Orientation, Construction, Planting
Arrangements
Location: Montgomery County. 461 Indian Creek Road, Harleysville, PA 19438.
Host: Jill Landis, Living Hope Farm
Contact: Tianna DuPont, (610) 746-1970,
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Jill has four high tunnels at the farm of various types. She will share information on orientation of the tunnels, types of construction and set-up. Andrew Frankenfield, Penn State Extension Montgomery County will join us and we will discuss rotations and planting arrangements for long term profit maximization in non-movable tunnels.
Date: First part of May
Time: 4-6pm
Topic: High Tunnel Twilight
Location: Bradford County
Host: TBA
Contact: Tom Maloney,
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or (570) 265-2896
Date: Wed. June 5, 2013
Time: 4-7pm
Topic: Tomato Trellising
Location: Centre County. 176 Zuck Road, Spring Mills, PA. 16875
Host: Leslie Zuck, Common Ground Farm
Co-Sponsor: Women in Ag Network, Pennsylvania Certified Organic
Register at: http://agsci.psu.edu/wagn
Contact: Patty Neiner
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Leslie Zuck, owner of Common Ground Organic Farm, has been producing certified organic
transplants and produce for more than 25 years. She rotates transplant production with in-ground
vegetables in a 20' by 60' hoophouse. Attendees will learn about trellising cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as transplant production techniques. Leslie's system focuses on low-cost, low-tech equipment and re-usable or compostable supplies, with a goal of zero-waste, minimal inputs and reducing costs.Date: Wed. June 19, 2013
Time: 5-7:30 pm
Topic: Cut Flowers and Berries
Location: 3502 Main Rd. E, Emmaus, PA 18049
Host: George & Melanie Devault, Pheasant Hill Farm
Co-Sponsor: Women in Ag Network
Contact: Tianna DuPont (610) 746-1970,
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George and Melanie Devault have run Pheasant Hill Farm in Emmaus PA since 1984. High tunnel
producers since 1990 they grow vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and berries in their tunnels. Participants will hear from George and Melanie on growing cut flowers and berries in tunnels and Kathy Demchak from Penn State will describe management for spotted wing drosophila a new invasive vinegar fly pest of berries. * One category credit.
Date: October TBA
Topic: High Tunnel Modifications for off-site Management and Pest Management
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Host: TBA
Contact: Tommy McCann
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For more intense high tunnel learning opportunities check out our high tunnel schools. These two days schools will cover Design and Site Considerations for High Tunnels; Tomato Varieties for High Tunnels; Alternative Crops for High tunnels: Cucumbers, Bell; Peppers, Eggplant, Greens, and Cut Flowers; Disease prevention and Management; Using Bio-controls; Pesticide application in High Tunnels; Managing insect and mite pests; More: Pruning and Training, Pollination, Fertilizing; Tunnel crops, Irrigation, Post-Harvest Handling.
Date: March 20-21, 2013
Topic: High Tunnel School
Location: Westmoreland County Extension Office
214 Donohoe Road, Greensburg
Contact: Bob Pollock
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; Lee Stivers (724) 228-6881.
Cost: $145
Date: March 14-15, 2013
Topic: High Tunnel School
Location: Lancaster County Extension
Contact: Steve Bogash (717) 263-9226 x230
Cost: $145
For more information go to extension.psu.edu/vegetable-fruit .
