Great news! I’m currently working to organize and hold an organic-focused blueberry/mummy berry workshop in Washington in conjunction with NCAP (the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides). Growers from Washington have previously traveled to Oregon for our educational events in 2014 and requested that we offer a workshop in Washington, so we are planning for one in Mount Vernon in February.
We’re still in the planning stages, but in order to make this workshop as valuable as possible for growers in the Pacific Northwest, I’d like to get YOUR feedback on a couple of questions:
1) Are there any meetings for berry growers in the spring that we should be sure to avoid?
We know the Blueberry Conference in Portland is January 27, although we don’t know that they focus much on organic methods.
Organicology is Feb 5-7 in Portland. Do you know if many of the WA blueberry growers attend?
2) Could you suggest how we should focus our advertising to reach blueberry growers interested in alternatives to pesticides? Are there any organizations that I should be sure to reach with information about this workshop? Any groups with email lists or mailed newsletters that blueberry growers are plugged into? Where do you hear about events?
Please respond in the comments section! More information regarding the workshop and current field experiments will be posted soon!
