Controlled Environment Production |
Saturday Schedule |
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This track features talks on greenhouse, hydroponics, and high tunnel production. The talks focus on high value crop selections for high tunnels, innovative closed aquaponics featuring insect production for fish feedstock, and greenhouse and hydroponics talks from HortAmericas - a renowned global hydroponic and greenhouse supplier and consultant.
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Morning
9:00 - 9:40 AM Session 1 9:45 -10:30 AM Session 2 10:45 -11:25 PM Session 3 11:30 - 12:15 PM Session 4 |
Lunch
12:15-1:00 PM Afternoon 1:00-2:30 Keynote 2:45-3:30 PM Session 5 |
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9:00 - 9:40 am
High Value Crops for High Tunnel Rotations | Recording Liz Graznak, Happy Hollow Farm 17199 Happy Hollow Road Jamestown, MO 65046 [email protected] 5732686394 www.happyhollowfarm-mo.com |
Liz Graznak is a Columbia, MO native whose love of gardening and the outdoors is the result of time spent outside with her grandparents growing up. It was in graduate school at Cornell University that Liz discovered Community Supported Agriculture farming and realized her passion for growing food & building community. After working on a number of different farms out east Liz decided to move back to the Columbia area. While farming with her friend & mentor Dan Kuebler, who owns The Salad Garden in Ashland, MO., Liz realized that if she was ever going to be able to afford to purchase her own farm than she was going to have to have a “real” job for a while. Liz worked for six years at Superior Garden Center honing her business & employee management skills. In November 2007 Liz & her wife Katie purchased Happy Hollow Farm. CSA farming has provided the opportunity to fulfill Liz’s long anticipated goal of growing beautiful, healthy food and sharing it with a community of people that share her enthusiasm and commitment to a local food system. With a six year old daughter and a new baby on the way, Liz has just wrapped up her 10th year of USDA certified organic production and has expanded to nearly 7 acres of veggies, fruit, eggs & flowers. Happy Hollow Farm sells thru a 72 member CSA 32 Weeks a year, 50 Saturdays a year at the Columbia Farmers Market and to a number of local Columbia restaurants and grocery stores. Winter production has become a key component to the viability and financial success of Happy Hollow Farm.
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9:45 - 10:30 am
Learn about the Commercial Hydroponic Industry: Q & A with Chris Higgins | Recording Chris Higgins, HortAmericas 2801 Renee Street Bedford, TX 76021 [email protected] (469) 532-2383 https://hortamericas.com/ |
Mr. Higgins is the President and General Manager of Hort Americas, LLC (HortAmericas.com) a wholesale supply company servicing all aspects of the commercial horticultural industries. Over the past years Hort Americas has made a special effort to focus on horticultural lighting, hydroponics substrate and nutrient management making them one of the leading resources for greenhouse and vertically farmed vegetable growers. He is the owner of UrbanAgNews.com (online education content provider), was a founding partner of the International Congress on Controlled Environment Agriculture in Panama and he currently sits on the board of advisors for many groups including the U of Arizona's CEA center.
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10:45 - 11:25 am
Fertilizer Management in Greenhouse/Hydroponic Production | Recording Learn the key aspect to manage plant nutrition in hydroponic systems. Karla Garcia, HortAmericas Torino 33 Hermosillo, Sonora 83210 [email protected] (469) 532-2383 https://hortamericas.com/ |
Karla Garcia is a plant lover who started her vocacional training in plant physiology over 9 years ago when she was a part of an Eco-physiology Lab as an undergraduate student in her home town Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Now, with a Master’s Degree in Plant Science, Karla specializes in plant physiology under controlled environment and has a vision to expand use of sustainable horticulture practices for food production. Therefore, she has dedicated most of her time to being an horticulture technical adviser to different companies and an instructor of short-courses in hydroponics, urban farming and greenhouse design all over Mexico. Also, she recently began as a microgreens grower.
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11:30 - 12:15 pm
Nile Valley Aquaponics: A Closed System Featuring Insect Feedstock Production | Recording Dre's presentation will go over the Nile Valley project, it's history and where they are presently. He will also go over funding, marketing, sustainability and patented process. Dre Taylor, Nile Valley Aquaponics 5041 Euclid Ave Kansas City, MO 64130 [email protected] (816) 382-2489 |
Dre Taylor is the founder of Nile Valley(NVA) Aquaponics 100,000 Pound Food Project in Kansas City, Missouri, it is the largest commercial Aquaponics facility in the state of Missouri. Dre holds a patented system that showcases an integrated feeding system utilizing insects he breeds to naturally feed it’s fish in his aquaponic system. Dre has been urban and aquaponic farming for over 10 years.
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