Louisiana CRAFT: Pastured Poultry Integration with Diversified Vegetables

Join us at River Queen Greens for the next Louisiana CRAFT On-Farm Event!

We'll be touring River Queen Greens and Yardbirds Farm and diving into their current production practices. We'll look at how they bring pastured poultry together with diversified vegetables, inlcuding covercrop use and food safety concerns. Yardbirds Farm will also share about their current DIY processing space and the new facility they're developing.

This event will be followed by a farmer hang and potluck! We'll have grillables and encourage you to bring a dish or beverages to share if you're able to - but it's not necesary, especially if it's a barrier to you attending; we'd rather you show up! BYO chair for the potluck

RQG and Yardbirds Farms are working farms so please dress accordingly and bring anything you need to be comfortable and protected from the elements and bugs, inlucding a layer for when the sun goes down.

CRAFT stands for the Collaborative Regional Alliance of Farmer Training and is an approach used nation-wide to build community and knowledge among farmers. CRAFT is a farmer-led coalition organized by sustainable agricultural producers in a self-selected geographic region to meet regional needs. Based on the idea that farmers learn best from other farmers, CRAFT provides farmer-to-farmer learning opportunities and grows connections among our farmer social networks. Using this model in Louisiana will empower farmers and provide mutual support as we expand sustainable agriculture in our state. Louisiana CRAFT is supported by Sprout, Intertribal Agriculture Council, the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP).

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