354: A Silly Little Bean (Wild Blue Yonder)

Decorative Old Hunter Garb by The Voice of Nick

Interested in growing strawberries in a vegetable rotation with the same tools and equipment you would use for vegetables? Can't get the lingo straight? This episode is for you! Ben Phillips interviewed Courtney Weber, berry breeder from Cornell, and Annie Klodd, fruit specialist from University of Minnesota, about strawberries production styles for June-picking that can work for vegetable growers.A summary of this podcast was written up for the Vegetable Growers News Veg Connections Column. Here are a couple of resources that could prove useful going forward. This Penn State University production guide includes plasticulture instructions for both plug and bare root plants. https://extension.psu.edu/strawberry-productionThis University of Minnesota variety list contains attributes that are useful for far northern growers: https://blog-fruit-vegetable-ipm.extension.umn.edu/2020/12/choose-strawberry-varieties-based-on-38.htmlThis North Carolina State University plant supplier list has the main players for sourcing plug plants and bare root plants. Consider reaching out to southern producers of plug plants up to a year in advance. https://ncstrawberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Plant-Suppliers-2020.pdf

It is May 1, and welcome to the Great Lakes Vegetable Producer’s Network, a live weekly roundtable discussion during the growing-season for commercial vegetable producers in the Great Lakes and Midwest region. We broadcast live via Zoom at 12:30 ET/11:30 CT every Wednesday from the first week of May to the first week of September.Topics will include things of interest to small and large growers, organic and conventional. To join the live audience, subscribe and get the login at glveg.net/listen. You can also get the Zoom smartphone apps there.If you have a vegetable production issue that you would like discussed, simply email it, along with your phone number, to greatlakesvegwg@gmail.com.The format we’re running with will be a 30 minute interview and discussion with some experts from the region, on topics that seem relevant for the week or month. Then, we’ll open it up for another 15 or 20 minutes for some live audience participation with the hosts and guests of the week.This coming week, MAY 6: WEATHERING THE COVID-19 CONTENT STORMWe will interview Amanda Byler, a Family Nurse Practitioner who works with migrant worker communities at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, and Annalisa Hultberg, University of Minnesota Extension Educator for on-farm food safety, about farm family, farm worker, and customer safety as we enter our production season during a global pandemic.Music: Gypsy Dance, Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, Youtube Audio Library.

Vegetable Alphabet by The Suns Of Albert