Free online webinar sponsored by ATTRA – National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service.
The webinar, we’ll cover:
- The uses and benefits of hoop houses, including increases in crop quality and yields
- Different types of hoop houses
- Construction, materials and cost estimates
- Management of crops, soil fertility, pests and weeds
- The economics and marketing of crops
- There will also be time to have your questions answered.
Your presenters for this webinar are NCAT horticulture specialists Tammy Hinman and Andy Pressman. Hinman holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University in horticulture food crops and entomology and a Master’s degree in food system studies from Antioch University. Pressman has a Master’s in sustainable systems from Slippery Rock University. He is a certified permaculture designer. Hinman and Pressman both have market farming experience as well as experience building and growing in hoop houses.
This free webinar will be held May 7 at 11 a.m. MDT. Please register at www.attra.ncat.org/webinars2009/hoophouses.