2019 ASHS Annual Conference

This interactive workshop will provide an excellent opportunity to bring together expertise, experience, and evaluation across different geographic regions to tackle an important task of identifying critical needs and priorities for high tunnel organic crop production research and extension toward enhancing long-term environmental and economic sustainability. The invited panelists will present research and/or outreach scenarios where effective approaches, strategies, and programs were successfully developed to address specific issues identified in high tunnel organic crop production systems in their work. Participants will join structured discussions of major successes and critical issues as well as research and outreach priorities for high tunnel organic vegetable production.

The overall goal of the workshop is to systematically address and compare the major successes and key issues with organic high tunnel production and management across multiple regions in the U.S. in order to develop a strategic plan outlining future research and outreach focus areas and build a productive collaborative partnership for resource portal and grant project development. A peer-reviewed journal publication on current status and future prospects is expected to come out of this workshop, and the idea of establishing a multi-state project on high tunnel organic crop production research and education will be brainstormed