Thursday, March 27, 5:00 pm until 6:30 pm
Online
Sean Birkel will review Maine’s historical temperature and precipitation trends and future climate projections, and discuss impacts to the growing season. Sean will give an overview of online tools relevant to agriculture, including growing degree day and precipitation summaries, frost date estimates, and other resources. Josh Faulkner will discuss general soil and hydrology concepts that relate to drainage and water management in agriculture in the context of extreme rainfall. He will also address how saturation and soil moisture status can affect nutrient cycling and soil health factors and how those relate to farm management practices.
Find more information and to register click here.
This spring NOFA-VT and MOFGA are hosting a 3-part series of farmer climate forums focused on flooding, excess precipitation, and farm resilience. The series starts next Thursday (3/13) with a farmer panel exploring flooding and adaptation. Session two (3/27) covers New England climate trends and soil hydrology. And the final forum (4/10) is a conversation around climate adaptation planning for flooding and high precipitation.
The forums are virtual, free to attend, and hopefully are a nice opportunity to learn from your peers and take steps toward growing our shared agricultural resilience here in New England.
