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SUMMARY:Fieldwalker 2026 Sandbox Field Day
DESCRIPTION:Fieldwalker 2026 Sandbox Field Day: Dialing in crop nutrition plans and application along with a\ntillage demonstration \n9:30 AM – 2 PM\, a final agenda will be distributed shortly.\nJonathan Zettler\, CPA\, CMA\, CCA-ON \nKey Details:\n• Location – Formosa (meal) and local fields to Formosa\, ON\n• Date – Friday\, September 18\, 2026\, ~9 am Coffee to 2 pm\n• Lunch – Pineridge BBQ \nSandbox (noun): a place\, area\, or environment that provides opportunities for variation and\nexperimentation in a way suggestive of children playing in a sandbox \nWhy Sandbox? \nMany have learned more through play and hands on learning than other methods and feel this\nbest reflects where learning\, interested and fun meet. \nCurrent speaker lineup:\n• Jonathan Zettler\, Fieldwalker Agronomy\n• David Simard\, Metos Canada\n• Travis Grubb\, Kubota Canada\n• Taylor Jeffery\, Yara Canada \nTopics/Stations:\n• Weather Station/Weather Data/SWAT Water – How to use it as an in-season decision aid when\nit comes to nitrogen rates\, how leaf sensors can measure plant stress/crop response to\nenvironmental conditions.\n• Soil Sampling Methodology – P&K Grid vs SWAT vs Split depth sample (reduced tillage fields);\nNitrate sampling by landscape position – what’s in a nitrate test\, how does it vary by landscape\nposition\, what do the numbers mean?\n• Nitrogen sources and the nitrogen cycle – a pound of N is not a pound of N!\n• Managing soil compaction with the Kubota CU – working long term no-till/strip till fields – good\,\nthe bad and the ugly \nThere is a small nominal fee of $25\, mainly to ensure the people attending want to participate\nand contribute to this type of event. A portion of this fee is donated to 4-H Ontario.\nTo participate\, drop Jonathan Zettler an email by clicking on the link below or at jz@fieldwalker.ca.\nPayment – if you are an existing Fieldwalker customer I’ll invoice your account. If not\, you can etransfer $25 to jz@fieldwalker.ca. RSVP by August 30th\, 2026 for food! \n*This event is recognized as OSCIA OFCAF KSE under BMP category Nitrogen Management 
URL:https://membership.ontariosoilcrop.org/event/fieldwalker-2026-sandbox-field-day/
LOCATION:Formosa\, ON\, Address Provided w/ Registration\, Formosa\, Ontario\, N0G2S0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:ÉPC,Event,KSE,Nitrogen Management,Recours aux cultures de couverturev
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SUMMARY:Seed Farming & Farmer-Led Research at Persephone Market Garden and Luna Mia Farm
DESCRIPTION:A full day tour of two seed saving farms with EFAO farmer-researchers? Sign us up! \nJoin Kristine Hammel of Persephone Market Garden and Rony Lec of Luna Mia Farm in Grey-Bruce to hear more about their seed and vegetable production and farmer-led research. \n  \nWe will start the morning at Persephone Market Garden\, run by Kristine Hammel and Thorsten Arnold. They have been farming on this land for 17 years. Kristine will lead a tour of the market garden\, which includes a growing seed garden and an expanding native seed orchard. She’ll share some of her motivations\, challenges and joys with growing seed on contract\, alongside a fresh vegetable CSA. Kristine is also a long time no till practitioner who using switch grass straw mulch in her gardens. Following the tour\, participants can enjoy their packed picnic lunch with soup from Kristine before travelling to Luna Mia Farm. \n  \n  \nIn the afternoon\, we will see Luna Mia Farm\, run by Rony Lec and Myriam Legualt who have been farming and seed saving for 20 years. Rony and Myriam ran the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute together in Guatemala for many years then moved to Canada and started a regenerative farm. Today\, they continue to use regenerative practices based on traditional knowledge\, save their open-pollinated seeds\, and share about their lessons learned along the way. Participants will join Rony and Myriam for a farm tour with a focus on traditional grain and seed crops. \n  \n  \nAgenda for the day: \nArrive to Persephone Market Garden: 9:45-10 (241063 Concession 3 Keppel\, Allenford) \nTour Persephone Market Garden: 10-12 \nBring you own picnic lunch: 12-1 \nDrive to Luna Mia: 1-1:30(135038 Concession Road 8 RR 1\, Desboro) \nTour Luna Mia: 1:30-3:30 \nDepartures: 3:30-4 \nPlease visit the EFAO event website to register and purchase tickets. \n  \nThis event is funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Ontario under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership\, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. \nFunding for the project has also been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada under the Agricultural Climate Solutions – Living Labs program and by the following partners: Beef Farmers of Ontario\, Dairy Farmers of Ontario\, Grain Farmers of Ontario\, Ontario Federation of Agriculture\, Ontario Pork and Ontario Sheep Farmers. The project is coordinated by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association.
URL:https://membership.ontariosoilcrop.org/event/seed-farming-farmer-led-research-at-persephone-market-garden-and-luna-mia-farm/
LOCATION:Persephone Market Garden\, 241063 Concession 3 Keppel\, Allenford\, Ontario\, N0H 1A0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Event,Living Lab Ontario,Research
ORGANIZER;CN="Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO)":MAILTO:info@efao.ca
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