Tickets Still Available for Hershey Farms Tour!
Attending the PACD/SCC Joint Annual Conference, but didn’t sign up for the soil health tour? It’s not too late! Stop by conference registration to purchase your ticket. The tour will take place on July 13 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $10/person which includes bus transportation, the tour, and bottled water.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Health Scientist Joe Kraft will demonstrate how the farm’s practices affect the soil as participants tour beautiful Hershey Farms. Owned and operated by Jim Hershey, President of the No-Till Alliance of Pennsylvania, the farm uses cover cropping, interseeding, and no-till methods to encourage and maintain soil health.