Come out to Huckleberry Hills Farm for a High Tunnel Repair Volunteer Day! While getting warm from community and getting this high tunnel repaired, you’ll get to learn from Sandra Simone, who was one of the first four farmers in the state to become Certified Organic through a project with the Southeastern African American Farmers Network (SAAFON). She owns and operates approximately 100 acres located in Alpine called Huckleberry Hills Farm, named so because of the numerous volunteer huckleberries that grow on her property.

What is CRAFT?
CRAFT stands for Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training and is a model for on-farm peer-to-peer training and network-building for farmers. The original CRAFT network formed in upstate New York and has been replicated many times since, adapted to meet the needs of each particular place.

Alabama CRAFT includes farm owners/operators as well as farm interns, apprentices, and employees, and aspiring farmers. It builds on past efforts to build community and share knowledge – including but not limited to the Regional Alabama Farmer Socials, and ASAN’s kindling workdays and crop mobs and Skillshare Trainings. Full 2023 Schedule can be found at asanonline.org/CRAFT

Alabama CRAFT is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP)

Learn more and register here: https://asanonline.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=43