Community Farm Alliance

There’s nothing like learning together in the field 💚

We’re excited to partner with the Kentucky Horticulture Council for a High Tunnel Field Day at Happy Hens Homestead, LLC. on June 24th. From crop planning to creating value added products from extra produce, this is a chance to share knowledge, build community, and grow stronger together.

🗓 June 24th | 9 AM – 12 PM
📍 Booneville, KY
🎟 Free (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/high-tunnel-crop-planning

Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your love for growing 🌱

After nearly a decade of working with CFA, Margie still spends her weekends visiting markets that she has worked with through KDD. Thank you to all the amazing farmers markets, farm stands, and retail outlets that bring local food to everyone!

📅Registration is now open for KY Center for Ag & Rural Development's Marketing for Financial Stability Workshop on July 28 in Elizabethtown!
✅Save your spot ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/FinancialStabilityWorkshop

📅 Save the Date!

Farm marketing is about more than promotion—it’s about making decisions that support stronger sales and long-term financial stability.

Join KCARD and partner organizations for the Marketing for Financial Stability Workshop on July 28, 2026. This hands-on workshop will help farmers strengthen pricing, marketing, and sales decisions while connecting with ag service providers and developing a personalized 90-day action plan.

📍 Nolin RECC, Elizabethtown, KY
🕙 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
🍽 Lunch provided

Registration is now open ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/FinancialStabilityWorkshop

🍅Looking to up your trellising and pruning game? Join our friends at Grow Appalachia on for a day of hands-on learning.

📅 June 25th
📍 Bobtown Arts Farm, 132 Smith Lane, Berea, KY
✅Register here: bit.ly/GrowAppRegistration

Ready to level up your growing game? 🌿

Join us June 24th for a High Tunnel Field Day in partnership with the Kentucky Horticulture Council!

We’ll cover:
✔️ Crop planning and rotation
✔️ Season extension through succession planting
✔️ Planning & growing for a CSA and farmers markets
✔️ Using extra & less-than-perfect produce to create value added products

🕘 9 AM – 12 PM
📍 Happy Hens Homestead, Booneville, KY
🎟 Free (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/high-tunnel-crop-planning

Come learn practical skills you can take straight back to your farm!

Action Opportunity to support local food in schools: Sign on to this letter to request greater flexibility for states to use federal entitlements for school food. Sign the letter by June 5.

Kentucky food system work is in the national spotlight at FIMCON, thanks to CFA member Michelle Howell. At this Washington DC Food is Medicine event, Michelle is speaking on a panel about her community-based Food is Medicine work here in Kentucky. She is supported by CFA board member LaToya Drake and staff member Sandra Ballew Barnes.

📣This will be a fantastic learning day for small and mid-sized farms!

📅 Aug 25, 2026, 8 AM - 4 PM ET
📍 UK Horticulture Research Farm
✅Register today at https://ccd.uky.edu/atfd

Getting transplants in the ground can be tough. Attend our upcoming field day to observe & learn more efficient ways to get plants successfully in the ground!

When: Aug 25, 2026
Where: UK Horticulture Research Farm
Time: 8 AM - 4 PM, ET
RSVP 👉 https://ccd.uky.edu/atfd

It was a delight to co-host a field day at Old Homeplace Farm last Friday with CFA member, Maggie Bowling, and our friends at the Kentucky Horticulture Council.

It was an amazing day of learning:
✨ Maggie shared hard earned bits of wisdom from more than a decade of high tunnel production, managing a 75-member CSA, and recovering from major flooding - twice.
✨ Sarah Geurkink from the Organic Association of Kentucky discussed early detection methods for pests and strategies for optimizing soil health.
✨ Kayla Preston with Grow Appalachia talked about high tunnel construction and maintenance as well as strategies for dealing with water - both what is needed for production as well as when there's too much.
✨ Dakota Moore with the Kentucky Horticulture Council reviewed best practices for safe post-harvest handling of produce as we toured Maggie's efficiently arranged and organized pack shed.

Field days are THE best! Stay tuned for information on other field days coming up this summer. 😍

🌱Planning is underway for the 2027 Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference and the planning team wants your input on session topics and more.
⏱️Please take 3–5 minutes to provide your feedback: https://tinyurl.com/EKFC2027

🌱 We Want Your Input! 🌱

Planning is underway for the 2027 Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference, and we want to hear from you.

Whether you’ve attended in the past or would be joining us for the first time, your feedback will help shape conference sessions and topics that are practical, relevant, and valuable for farmers and agricultural professionals across the region.

⏱ The survey takes about 3–5 minutes to complete.

Take the survey here: https://tinyurl.com/EKFC2027