Where You Can Get Training on Protected Growing

Where You Can Get Training on Protected GrowingGrowers who have only grown outdoors face a significant knowledge gap when growing indoors. Issues like ventilation, irrigation, and pest control are handled quite differently from field production.

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Up the ante a bit with adding supplemental lighting and heat — a must in winter production — and field growers face the unknown. At the top of the knowledge-needed ladder is hydroponics.

Luckily, there are excellent programs around the country designed for growers.

Greenhouse Crop Production & Engineering Design Short Course. Hosted by The University of Arizona in mid-March each year. It also offers intensive workshops on lettuce (in mid-October) and tomatoes (in January).

Greenhouse Tomato Short Course. Hosted by Mississippi State University. Held in early March each year.

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International Congress on Controlled Environment Agriculture. This international event is fairly new. It’s most recent event was in late 2017.

University classes. Many land-grant universities offer traditional college-level courses on these topics.

Suppliers. Another good source of education is manufacturers, who tend to have experts on hand for growers. A few even host their own educational events.

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