Seth Mcdonough - Propagation and Nursery Management
April 8th
Location: HIP Ag Farm, Starseed Ranch
Learn from HIP Agriculture’s Farm Manager Seth McDonough how to propagate vegetable starts, manage them in a nursery and screenhouse. Learn skills to successfully germinate, raise plants from seed, propagate crops, as well as dealing with pests and disease in the nursery.
Potential offering: Building a hoop-house in a backyard farm environment.
Cab Baber - Healthier Soils for Health & Longevity in Vegetable & Fruit Production
April 29th
Location: HIP Ag Farm, Starseed Ranch
Cab is an incredibly passionate & knowledgeable longtime (30+ years) farmer of Kohala. He practices a variety of unique farming methods and soil-fertility boosting applications, such as working with worms, and producing his own EM products (effective microorganisms) including Bokashi, a revered Asian style of composting & fermentation. Cab will demonstrate these practices in fruit tree and market gardening applications on the farm with a hands-on workshop in the field.
