<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">Hello All! I hope this email finds you all well.  We will have our final Farmer Field Day of the 2021 season on October 14th, at Homestead Organics Farm in Hamilton.  Please share the following details with anyone whom you think might be interested.  Thanks!<div><br></div><div><h5 style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.236;font-size:1.7em;padding-top:0.618em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span class="gmail-has-inline-color" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(104,164,69)">Seed Saving Methods for Small Scale Growers</span></span></h5><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Homestead Organics Farm – Hamilton, MT</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><span class="gmail-has-inline-color" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(255,153,0)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Wednesday, October 13<span style="box-sizing:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12.75px;line-height:0">th</span>, 2021 – 4pm</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px">Homestead Organics is a fourteen-acre certified organic farm near Hamilton, Montana. They produce a variety of vegetables, poultry, and hemp, as well as seeds they grow for Triple Divide Organic Seed Cooperative. For the past five years, the farm has primarily been committed to spreading agricultural knowledge and skills to local youth. The fields and pastures of Homestead Organics serve as the classroom for Cultivating Connections, an educational non-profit that provides paid service-learning internships for students from the local high schools. During this field day attendees will get to see some seed saving, harvesting, and cleaning techniques in action and learn about growing vegetables for seed. </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><em style="box-sizing:inherit">Registration Deadline: Sunday, October 10th, 2021</em></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://s.surveyanyplace.com/fqggsebn">Seed Saving Registration (surveyanyplace.com)</a><br></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nicole Jarvis (she/her)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Nunito;color:rgb(83,129,53)">Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program Coordinator</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">Community Food & Agriculture Coalition</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.382em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"></em></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Nunito;color:rgb(83,129,53)"><a href="http://missoulacfac.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(83,129,53)">missoulacfac.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Nunito;color:rgb(17,85,204)"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Nunito;color:black">|</span> (406) 214-1448 (cell)</p></div></div>