https://soundcloud.com/wuviam1090/agriculture-marketing-director-billy-abraham-on-wic-coupons
As shared today on What’s Going on @UVICES, listen as I spoke with USVI Department of Agriculture Marketing Director Billy Abraham, encouraging farmers to attend the meeting to be authorized to accept WIC coupons as well as encouraging WIC recipients to come out on Sept. 15th to purchase local produce from farmers at the Market Square between 7:30am – 4pm.
Farmers Market Nutrition Program Training Meeting
Location: UVICES Conference Room
Time/Date: 6pm on September 14, 2016
Contact: 340-693-1080 for directions or 340-778-0997/0888 ext. 256 for more details
Below, I spoke with UVI students about the start of their school year and the upcoming AgFair. Then Dr. Louis E. Petersen, Jr., Damali Rogers, Empress Atiyah Potter join in to share a wrap up of the summer agriculture enrichment camp at CES and how it has affected her recent interest in studying the mango weevil.
https://soundcloud.com/wuviam1090/uvices-on-agfair-and-mango-weevil
3pm Today on What’s Going on @UVICES?
Farmers Outreach, Mango Weevils & AgFair
A weekly radio program co-hosted by UVI Extension staff sharing lively interviews of UVICES Community Partners, Stakeholders, Administrators, Staff or Current and Past Clients as they share experiences and examples of how we all work together in responding to the needs of the community.
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TODAY’S TOPICS:
1. Farmers Outreach Update | Billy Abraham, VI Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Director
2. WEEVILS in your Mangoes?! | Dr. Louis E. Petersen, Jr.
3. AgFair Coming up!
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UVICES NEWS
AgFair Weekend Coming Nov. 19-20 on Reichhold Grounds
The Annual St. Thomas/St. John Agriculture and Food Fair will be held on November 19 & 20, 2016 on the grounds of the Reichhold Center for the Arts. The theme for this year’s fair is being reviewed based on student submissions.
The fair officially opens at 10 am and closes at 6 pm on both days. On sale were fruits and vegetables, nursery plants, fruit trees, vegetable seedlings, local arts and crafts, prepared food and much more.
4-H collegiate and youth clubs collaborated with the WUVI Student Radio Station conducting live interviews and going on field trips between the fairgrounds and the campus radio station, where they learn hands-on how the station operates.
The AgFair is hosted by the St. Thomas-St. John Agriculture and Food Fair Committee in partnership with the University of the Virgin Islands Cooperative Extension Service, the Virgin Islands Department of Agriculture and Fintrac. For more information call the UVI Cooperative Extension Service at 3406931080 or the Department of Agriculture at 3407745182.
Email sttstjagfair@gmail.com and stay connected with the AgFair online using #sttstjagfair2015 for pictures, videos and the latest information @sttstjAgFair on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter or visit ces.uvi.edu for details.
DaraMonifah Cooper
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