Calendar

To add your event to The Vegetable Growers News Calendar, simply send your event, the date and contact information to Kim Warren by email or use our web message system.

May 21-24, 2008
Cucurbitaceae 2008
Avignon, France
www.inra.fr/cucurbitaceae2008.

May 27-30, 2008
International Fruit and Vegetable Summit
Paris, France
www.fruitandvegsummit.com.

June 8-9, 2008
Michigan Food Processors Association Annual Meeting
Crystal Mountain Resort, Thompsonville, Mich.
231-271-5752.

June 12, 2008
Cover Cropping in Vegetable Systems Workshop
Kellogg Biological Station, Gull Lake, Mich.
517-353-3542, www.michiganorganic.msu.edu.

June 12, 2008
Illinois Summer Horticulture Field Day
Tanner’s Orchard, Speer, Ill.
Don Naylor, 309-828-8929, illsthortsoc@yahoo.com.

June 13-15, 2008
Midwest Haunters Convention
Columbus, Ohio
www.midwesthauntersconvention.com.

June 25, 2008
Summer Tour & Field Day
OARDC, Wooster, Ohio
Ohio Produce Growers & Marketers Association, 614-487-1117, opgma@ofa.org, www.opgma.org.

July 26-30, 2008
Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference
Starr Pass, Tucson, Ariz.
www.swcs.org/08ac.

August 20-21, 2008
North American Strawberrry Growers Summer Tour Oct. 18-19 – Fall Flower & Garden Fest, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Truck Crops Experiment Station, Crystal Springs, Miss. 601-892- 3731, http://msucares.com/fallfest. Nov. 6-8 – Southeast Strawberry Exp
Columbus, Ohio.
613-258-4587, info@nasga.org, www.nasga.org.

September 5-6, 2008
13th Annual Chile Pepper Food Festival
Bowers, Penn.
www.pepperfestival.com.

September 7-10, 2008
19th International Pepper Conference
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Atlantic City, N.J.
Dr. Wesley Kline, 856-451-2800, wkline@aesop.rutgers.edu or wyenandt@aesop.rutgers.edu.

September 10-12, 2008
Asia Fruit Logistica, International Trade Fair for Fruit and Vegetable Marketing
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. www.b-for.com/asiafruitlogistica.html.
www.b-for.com/asiafruitlogistica.html.

October 18-19, 2008
Fall Flower & Garden Fest
Truck Crops Experiment Station, Crystal Springs, Miss.
601-892- 3731, http://msucares.com/fallfest.

November 6-8, 2008
Southeast Strawberry Expo
Hilton University Place, Charlotte, N.C.

December 9-11, 2008
Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market EXPO
DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, Mich.
www.glexpo.com.

January 12-14, 2009
OPGMA Congress
Nia Center at the Kalahari Resort, Sandusky, Ohio.