October Urban Agriculture Month 2022

October Urban Agriculture Month Kickoff
Saturday, October 1, 2022
10:00am - 1:00pm at Arlington Central Library

Keynote Speaker: Joe Guthrie, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
Arlington County October Urban Agriculture Month Proclamation
- Arlington County Board Members Matt de Ferranti & Libby Garvey
Roundtable 1: Maximizing Food Production in Arlington County
- Moderator: Becky Halbe, FOUA Board Member
- Sue Howell, Plot Against Hunger Garden
- David Smith, Plot Against Hunger Garden at St. Andrews
- Andy Vereyken - Highlands Urban Garden

Volunteer

Plot Against Hunger Produce Bagging Center at Rock Spring Church, Mondays & Thursday 1:00pm - 3:00pm, need baggers and drivers. Returning volunteers signup. New volunteers signup.

Gleaning at local farms every Tuesday in October, need gleaners and drivers. Returning volunteers signup. New volunteers signup.

Additional Events!

Oct 2: Area 2 Farms Open House - 1:00pm (open houses every first Sunday of the month)
Oct 7: Leave the Leaves! and Other Beneficial Composting Practices, 10:00am - 11:30am online
Oct 9: Leave the Leaves . . . There’s No Place Like Home – Kid’s event!, 10:30am - 11:30am at Fairlington Community Center
Oct 13; Arlington Food Security Task Force report release
Oct 22: Tour of Highlands Urban Garden, 9:00am - 11:00am
Oct 23: End of Season Care for Gardening Tools, 11:15am - 12:15pm at Small Space Garden, Fairlington Community Center
Oct 25 - 26: Controlled Environment Agriculture Summit in Danville, VA
Oct 28: Browsers of the Garden Buffet: Strategies for Dealing with Deer, 10:00am - 11:30am online
Oct 29: Bee Day at the Ball-Sellers House from 1:00pm - 4:00pm. Virginia Johnson, author of Virginia Honey: A Sweet History is keynote speaker
Oct dates: Master Food Volunteers Ways to Prevent Food Waste

Harvest festivals in October

Oct. 8: Dreaming Out Loud's The Farm at Kelly Miller Fall Festival, 10:00am - 2:00pm
Oct. 15: Fairlington Fall Festival, 11:30am - 2:30pm
Oct 16: Arcadia Farm Funtacular, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Oct. 22: Fall Frolic, Lee-Fendall House, Alexandria, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Oct. 22 & 23: Mt. Vernon Fall Festival, 9:00am - 5:00pm

All through the month of October:

Visit local Famers Markets Arlington has three year-round markets and seven seasonal markets that you can visit during the month of October. Find your local market here

Visit the Fairlington Small Spaces Garden and Plant Clinic and the Fairlington Farmer’s Market at the same time, Sundays 9-11. Location: 3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington, VA 22206

Visit the Organic Vegetable Demonstration Garden at Potomac Overlook Regional Park Any Wednesday in October from 8:30am – 10:30am. Location: 2845 N. Marcey Road, Arlington VA 22207

Extension Master Gardener Help Desk is open to the public. Staffed daily between 9 and 12 pm, the Help Desk can answer questions about weeds, pest management and Identification, plant disease and identification of environmental or site management challenges to plant health. Located at the Fairlington Community Center 3308 S. Stafford St. Arlington VA 22312 PHONE: 703 228 6414. Email questions and photos to: Extension Experts at mgarlalex@gmail.com.

FREE Urban Agriculture and Best Practices Presentations on Demand at the https://MGNV.org website