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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141;background:white">Field Day Friday - Protected Culture </span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141"><br>
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141">Friday September 8, 2023, 4:30 - 6:30 pm </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141"><br>
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141">Growing Home Urban Farm</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141"><br>
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141">5814 S Wood, Chicago </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141"><br>
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141">Please register at </span></span><a href="https://go.illinois.edu/protectedculture" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FF552E;background:white">https://go.illinois.edu/protectedculture</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk143079344"></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif;color:#050505;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white">Extension Educator Zack Grant and Growing Home Farm Manager Ezra Lee will discuss </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529"><br>
<span style="background:white">High Tunnel Management</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Vendors and Equipment</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Structures like High tunnels, caterpillar tunnels<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529;background:white">Planting Dates for Season Extension
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<span style="background:white">We're thrilled to welcome Joseph Bridges, the USDA NRCS Conservationist for Cook County who will tell attendees about cost share programs available to urban farmers. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Sarah Batka<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Local Foods Small Farms Program Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">8753 S Greenwood #100, Chicago, IL 60619<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">w. 217-300-8636<br>
<u><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:sbatka@illinois.edu">sbatka@illinois.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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