About Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association
The Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association (VVBGA) Shares their webinars in audio form so you can easily listen while in the field or high tunnel!
Plastic Mulches in Vegetable Production: Sources, Alternatives, Pros and Cons | Winter 2026 Webinar
This webinar includes an overview of petroleum-based plastic mulch, bioplastics terminology, the differences between bio-based, compostable, and soil-biodegradable materials, label interpretation, performance comparisons, and non-plastic alternatives.
Speakers: Byron Garcia, Biomimicry Consultant, Natural Designs LLC, Shuresh Ghimire, Associate Extension Educator, UConn
All webinars are free, thanks to support from the VVBGA, the Vermont Clean Water Improvement Program, and the Transition to Organic Partnership Program. Thank you to the generous farmers and researchers willing to share their knowledge to make this series possible!Learn more or become a member of the Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association:https://vvbga.org
23 Apr 2026
Soil Health Bang for Your Buck | Winter 2026 Webinar
Improving soil health doesn’t need to be expensive or laborious. This webinar focuses on organic, soil building practices that make economic and efficient sense for soil health improvements. Come prepared to share your experiences and methods that support long term soil fertility and reduced impacts on water quality. This webinar is supported by the Transition to Organic Program (TOPP) and the Vermont Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Program (AgCWIP). Speaker: David Weisberger, University of Rhode Island Extension
9 Apr 2026
Learning from High Tunnel Enterprise Budgets | Winter 2026 Webinar
Enterprise budgets are a tool to help understand all the costs and returns associated with an individual crop. That data can inform decisions aimed at improving profitability. Vern Grubinger, UVM Extension vegetable and berry specialist will show examples of "fillable" tunnel enterprise budget spreadsheets, and then he’ll demonstrate a new on-line budgeting and benchmarking tool for high tunnel crops, funded by the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Initiative. Georgia McDougall, Greenhouse Manager at Intervale Community Farm in Burlington will describe how she has used enterprise budgets to compare the profitability of various tunnel crops, what was learned, and how that affected management practices.-All webinars are free, thanks to support from the VVBGA, the Vermont Clean Water Improvement Program, and the Transition to Organic Partnership Program. Thank you to the generous farmers and researchers willing to share their knowledge to make this series possible!Learn more or become a member of the Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association:https://vvbga.org
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