2023 Summer Twilight Series
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Join University of Illinois Extension educators as they team up with area farmers to provide four monthly evening meetings to highlight and demonstrate diverse farming enterprises across southern Illinois. The series will provide participants an opportunity to experience different types of production and marketing practices utilized by southern Illinois producers.
The meetings are scheduled monthly on Monday evenings, May through August, from 6 to 8 p.m. on the following dates at the locations listed below.
- May 15, 2023 - Bass Farms, Intersection of Cobden School Rd and US 51, Cobden, IL 62920 - Hydroponic tomato production and plasticulture strawberry production
- June 12, 2023 - Burnt Hill Cattle Co. LLC, 4815 Piopolis Rd., Dahlgren, IL 62828 - pasture raised livestock and poultry, local meat processing and sales
- July 17, 2023 - Riverside Mercantile Store, 101 W. Main, Elizabethtown, IL 62931 - direct market sales, value-added products from local sources
- August 21, 2023 - The Patch, 14656 Pittsburg Rd., Marion, IL 62959 - cover crops, pumpkin production and fall agritourism