October 2024
PARS: Climate Impacts to Apple Flavor
Becky Weipz, Superintendent of the Peninsular Agricultural Resource Station, will discuss how climate conditions impact apple flavor.
Find out more »Door County Beekeepers: Hive Chemistry 101
Members of the Door County Beekeepers will offer a series of demonstrations listing ways to transform honey and beeswax into products. Demonstrations include Making Mead, Household Products (furniture polish, wood conditioners, food wraps, and candles) personal care products (lip balm, lotion, hand salves and soap) how to make a honey heater and cooking with honey. Demonstrations only.
Find out more »Bumble Bees and Crop Pollination
This program, geared toward elementary students, but open to all ages, will show how bumblebees enhance vegetable success by a process known as Buzz pollination. The program will begin with a video and, weather permitting, will involve a short hike!
Find out more »NRCS: Soil and Fruit Flavor
Join Soil Scientist Jaime Patton and learn how soil changes fruit flavor.
Find out more »POST-FESTIVAL EVENT: Menominee Agricultural History
Speakers: Jacob Grignon (Cultural Resource Protection Officer, Menominee Historic Preservation) and Frank Kutka (Sustainable Agriculture Faculty, College of Menominee Nation) We will learn about how Menominee agriculture has been rediscovered in the forests of our region through the observations of forester and knowledge keeper Jeff Grignon (Paemapameh) and through years of effort by the Menominee Historic Preservation Department. Then, we will explore what archeologists, anthropologists, and agronomists have to tell us about this important part of the Menominee economy over…
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