Find your next event here, from credit courses to weekend family fun! This calendar is a community effort to benefit farmers and non-farmers alike! Browse events by photo tiles, list, or calendar view. Search by titles, topics, audience or other criteria. Click the event title for more details on each event.
Join Freida Schmidt as she demonstrates and explains one of the most common and historic methods of soap making. Schmidt will demonstrate the cold process that involves lye, sodium hydroxide and a variety of oils. During the 18th and 19th centuries many families made soap from lye, obtained from wood ash and rainwater along with…
ABOUT THE WEBINAR Farm Sense is a four-session workshop that teaches farmers how to understand financial statements such as the cash flow statement, the balance sheet, and the income statement. EVENT DETAILS A four-week informative webinar focusing on the financials of your farm business. WHEN Tuesdays (6 p.m. -9 p.m.) July 25, 2023 August 1,…
Enjoy some fun at our farm on Friday mornings!! For $6 per person, you can enjoy our KidZone play area (which includes a tunnel slide, toddler slides, hay bales to climb, tunnels to race through, a rope maze, tricycle track and our commercial grade bounce house!) and visit our Barn Yard Animals. If you’d like…
Join us for this informative event and learn the step-by-step process of pressure canning Green Beans! When: Saturday, July 29, 2023 | 9 a.m. - Noon Registration deadline: July 24, 2023 | 11:59 p.m. Does using a pressure canner make you nervous? Do you have a pressure canner but aren’t sure how to use it?…
Join us for our Summer Reading Finale to pet a variety of small farm animals.
The Historic Dreibelbis Farm will be opening its doors for House Tours on selected Sundays in the Spring and Summer. Please join us on June 4 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Tours are $6; parking is free. Historic Dreibelbis Farm, located in Virginville, Berks County PA, has been owned and maintained by the same…
About the webinar Is there a relationship between animal and udder health and the quality of milk that is produced? During Connecting Milk Quality with Udder and Animal Health, we will explore best practices and tools that can be applied for maintaining animal and udder health. We will look at the importance of monitoring and…
ABOUT THE WEBINAR Farm Sense is a four-session workshop that teaches farmers how to understand financial statements such as the cash flow statement, the balance sheet, and the income statement. EVENT DETAILS A four-week informative webinar focusing on the financials of your farm business. WHEN Tuesdays (6 p.m. -9 p.m.) July 25, 2023 August 1,…
Partnering with the nation’s leading experts in land transfer, we are creating an adaptable, skills-based curriculum. This curriculum will serve ag service providers working with a new generation of producers and landowners as they navigate the complex financial, legal, and interpersonal issues involved in land and business transfer. Transitioning Land to a New Generation: Getting…
Learn all about pickling foods! When: Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023 | 6 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. Registration deadline: July 31, 2023 | 11:59 p.m. Home Food Preservation: Pickling will explain the scientific reasoning behind today's recommended methods for making and processing pickled products, while dispelling food preservation myths and unsafe practices of the past. In recent…
This will be the 10th year for our public demo and education day held at Old Dry Road Farm near Blue Marsh Lake, Wernersville, PA (Berks County) on Saturday August 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a free, fun, family event to promote the craft of blacksmithing. There will be forging stations…
There is still time to sign up for the Innovation Station: STEM Exploration Day! This is a regional event that will be held on August 5 at the Berks County Ag Center in Leesport. We have two guest speakers joining us for experiments, hands on activities and to talk about their work in this field.…
If you have a change to an already submitted event or need to cancel and remove your event on our calendar, please contact DepartmentofAg@CountyofBerks.com
