Grants to Fund Trees & Orchards
Monday, October 17, 2022 • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Kinsale, Virginia
Learn how the VSU Small Farm Outreach Program provided grant assistance for Sandra Brackett to realize her lifelong dream of having an English Walnut orchard. Sandra will take us on a tour of the orchard she planted in April with grant funding assistance from SFOP. She will describe all of the steps she took to design, plant and maintain it. Tracy Porter, VSU SFOP Program Assistant for Eastern Virginia, will be on hand to explain the Renewable Resource Extension Act Capacity Grant, and show how he can assist small-scale and beginning farmers with locating tree vendors and designing an orchard, windbreak, pollinator habitat or silvopasture. Grace Summers, VSU SFOP drip irrigation specialist, will explain how to set up a drip irrigation system for trees.
For more information, contact Tracy Porter at 804-481-2566 or tporter@vsu.edu.
If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact the Small Farm Outreach Program office at smallfarm@vsu.edu or call (804) 524-3292 / TDD (800) 828-1120 during business hours of 8 am. and 5 p.m. to discuss accommodations five days prior to the event.
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