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What's a Farminar??

A Farminar is an interactive online seminar on a farming topic.

Practical Farmers of Iowa is offering a winter season of farminars. Sessions cover varied subjects such as pest management in organic vegetable production, profitable recording keeping, and improving sales at farmers markets.

The farminars are free! Of course, you will need a computer and access to the internet to take advantage of this educational opportunity.

You can register for a farminar at Practical Farmers of Iowa.

There's also a "farminar archives" for past topics you may have missed or want to review.

Next Tuesday night, February 7th, Dru Montri of the Michigan Farmers Market Association will be presenting at the Practical Farmers of Iowa Farminar with John Wesselius from The Cornucopia. The focus is on improving your farmers market sales.

Here's a description of the session from the Practical Farmers of Iowa:

Coming home from market with only $50 and a vehicle full of product can be discouraging. Participants will learn how to calculate the costs of attending farmer's markets, how to set a farmer's market income goal and strategies to reach that goal and achieve a profit that's worthy of the effort.

John Wesselius and his family operate The Cornucopia near Sioux Center. Their annual sales revenues exceed $100,000 and are generated on a six-acre property. Two of those acres are covered in gardens, one and a half acres in grass for pastured poultry and the balance in trees and buildings. They sell their products at the Sioux Center Farmer's Market, Sioux City Farmer's Market and the Falls Park Farmer's Market in Sioux Falls, SD. John is passionate about growing for market!

Dru Montri is the director of Michigan Farmer's Market Association (MIFMA). She has a background in horticulture receiving her B.S. from Michigan State University (MSU) and her M.S. from Penn State. In addition to her work with MIFMA, she is pursuing a dual doctoral degree at MSU in Horticulture and Community and in Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies. She and her husband own and operate Ten Hens Farm in Bath, Michigan.