Virtual River Talk: Sustaining Agriculture in Northwest New Jersey
Tue, Mar 05
|Zoom
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Zoom
About the event
March 5th, 2024(rescheduled from Feb 6th)
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
Format: Virtual Event via Zoom
Join the MWA for its first River Talk of 2024, which will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 5th, 7:00 - 8:30p.m.
How can we work toward sustaining agriculture in northwest New Jersey? Learn about how preserving farmland benefits more than just farmers, and how some organizations are working not only to provide land and opportunities for people to get into farming, but also market access so they can make a living doing it. Catherine Suttle of the Hunterdon Land Trust will highlight its producer’s-only farmers’ market and explore how this tool to support local farmers’ livelihoods has been changing and will continue to do so. Tess Mullen of the Foodshed Alliance will discuss how its Sustainable Agriculture Enterprise (SagE) program helps farmers get onto lands by partnering with land trusts holding…